the times
Usually, I gorge myself on the New Yorker and nibble with a yawn on the Times but these articles on robotics and oysters made me happy and hungry today. Sometimes I don't know what the hell I was thinking getting into biology (I thought I could help people with science). I love computer programming and electrical engineering so much more. Charge pumping capacitors are much more exciting than restriction enzymes. There's too much trial and error in biology and not enough rigorous thinking. Anyway, this makes me want to be a college professor or help out at a high school. I'm trying to imitate the New Yorker style in this paragraph but I can't remember if they italicize the "the" before Times or not. That bizarre dieresis they use in coöperate has become so familiar that I welcome it with a kind of nostalgia for something so ugly that it becomes beautiful just because you notice it and it never changes. Like sirens in new york city I suppose.
Student's Prize Is a Trip Into Immigration Limbo
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Clearly I'm missing out on what I could be studying. Read here. When people ask me what my PhD is in or what kind of experiments I'm working on, I sometimes say, "ass bacteria" since that is somewhat true. But this would take the cake. "What do you study?" Oh, like what's my PhD on...farting...yeah bean farts mostly.
Posted on Wednesday, April 26, 2006, 10:22 AM
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oysters rock. i miss them being it is now may. is it? i can't remember, but i know you can only eat them raw in months that have "r" in the name.
Posted by: korrynne on April 26, 2006 10:37 PM
another great oysters article in the new yorker of april 10th by Bill Buford ... also more entertaining in that new yorker kind of way
Posted by: juanma on April 26, 2006 11:29 PM