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Orangejello and I have a friend out here in DC who is consistently hilarious; we’ll call him JK.  I thought I’d share two recent examples of the man’s inspired wit.  First, his Facebook status from a couple of days ago, regarding The Decision debalce on ESPN by LeBron James (Orangejello has called his status updates […]

Cab Calloway - Strictly Cullid Affair
Red Norvo - Stop Beatin’ ‘Round the Mulberry Bush
Count Bassie - I’m Beginning To See The Light

Most of the time, being the fifth wheel in SD was perfectly fine.  However, every once in a while it was … difficult being single when in the presence of two, cute, adorable, wonderful, and totally-in-love couples.   This is the a large part of the reason I chose to not go skiing; I needed the […]

Travel notes from today:

I got picked up by the airport shuttle this morning.  I don’t know if I was more impressed or scared by the driver handling 2 cell phones at the same time as driving and manipulating the GPS.
I had a really solid breakfast this morning at the B Gate concourse at Dulles, at […]

Today we put magnesium metal directly over an open flame(it burns really bright), exploded a bit of hydrogen gas in a test tube(it makes a loud pop if you do it right), and tested to see if melted potassium chlorate produces oxygen gas.  That last one you check by sticking a stick ember in the […]

One might say that, at times, I have a tendency to speak my mind without a filter.  Once upon a time, this just made me crass.  Funny too (I thought), but certainly often crass, and almost always inappropriate.  Thus, I learned tact and the amusingly lewd or snarky thoughts began to pop up either mentally […]

Actual comment from my last chemistry class of the day.
me “So if you are doing conversions in 3 dimensions it can get tricky like we’ve gone through, but at least we don’t have to go to more than 3 dimensions.”
Student: “Wait, is it even possible to go to 4 dimensions?”
Me: “Yes, the 4th dimension is […]

So this year I graduated to the big leagues and instead of teaching the 9th grade general science course I’m teaching the hardest of the science courses, chemistry.  I still teach biology, which is easy except my group of students is more typical than my one group of biology students I had last year(last year […]

So as some of you can attest (those fellow Half Dome alumnus) my girlfriend, flowrpwr, and I like to get out and hike. In the last year we’ve managed to hike on 3 different continents.  So what did I decide to do for my 29th birthday?
I ended up snagging a late season reservation to Silver […]

Bonus points for whoever knows where that quote came from.  Last night we packed up Gpa’s library to try and give it all away today.  This man worked on the camera for the U2 spy plane as well as few other things in the Air and Space Smithsonian and more than a few things that were […]