Swiss folk music is pretty high-spirited… last night Christa downloaded some from Kazaa Lite, so my music folder is a bit of a mixed bag today. I’ve got AC/DC’s “Hells Bells” followed by acid jazz, Eric Clapton next to Moloko…
Back to Swiss music. One of the songs is called “Alperose” or “Alpine Flower.” In fact, [...]

Octopuses can get erections, US researchers have discovered. They are the first soft-bodied animal found to have erectile tissue.
Just thought I’d share this from my current issue of Nature Science Update. Believe me, most of the updates I get aren’t quite this suggestive. I just thought, in the general scheme of things, how strange to [...]

No, I wasn’t hospitalized. I went to Burnaby Hospital this afternoon because I was on a little mission for my friend Berit in Hamburg. She’s in PR for Draeger Medical, a giant medical supply company that just recently became a 65:35 Joint Venture with Siemens, an even larger corporate giant. Berit is producing the company’s [...]

It was a gorgeous day in Vancouver, and I watched it end while waiting for the Aquabus across the street. Tom invited me to check out The Heretic — one play in “The Pick of the Fringe” (The 19th Annual Vancouver Fringe Festival). It was playing at The Waterfront Theatre on Granville Island, so I [...]

Ah, the folly of youth!
Last night, as Eliza and I were driving home on Georgia St., a bunch of very loud young girls in a limo decided to moon the traffic going by. There was a bit of a delay, so Eliza slowed down a bit, I whipped out my camera and took a photo! [...]

I haven’t visited Smoking Gun for a long time, but some stream-of-conscious trigger made me go there, and I checked out their lovely celebrity mugshots page. You know, instead of seeing what trainer so-and-so is using, if you really want to look just as good as a celebrity, find out who does their makeup!
I’ve included [...]

This blog passed the 1,000 visits milestone in 38 days, so I thought we were all due for a change. Who wants the same old, same old? Not me.
I’ve been messing around with colour and CSS, and this is what I came up with! If it makes you go blind, just say so and I’ll [...]

I am so easily amused…
I have this weekly thing for reading the Fashion Police section of E-Online, and on rare occasions get sucked in by the celebrity sightings section. Most sighting posts reek of banality (“she was soooo nice and soooo cute”), but once in a while you find one that just makes you want [...]

You might notice on the left panel the links to my office and to SFU…. scroll wayyyy down. They’ve FINALLY approved the website to go live, and it has now replaced that horribly-designed site that Chris Hale made. Yuk, we’ve had to live with that for two years, and I’ve been too embarrassed to give [...]

Now we’re cooking with gas!
Blogger and Haloscan appear to be back up again, and I did some system tweaking this morning on my computer to fix some OS problems, so hopefully things will be relatively smooth again in electronic-land — though I might be speaking too soon!
I’ve noticed that Darwin’s Web is tracking a rather [...]