I’m back!!!
Oh…you never realized I was gone?
Ah well, that’s ok, because I AM back – back from a stressful few months of wondering where I would end up, how I would feed my babies (i.e. cats) and their baby-momma (my wife – yeah that does sound rather gross), and several dozen unknowns also thrown into [...]

Well, as some of you have no doubt noticed, I have been rather absent from the internets as of late. On top of a heavy load of scientific experiments on my plate, I’m also spending almost every waking minute trying to get my house ready to sell for my impending move to Pittsburgh (which includes [...]

The above image arrived in my email inbox last night from the preeminent coral reef expert and blogger extraordinaire Rick MacPherson of Malaria, Bedbugs, Sea Lice & Sunsets.
The subject line simply read “I’m just sayin…”
The pun came from his recent Carnival of the Blue #22 in which he wrote of my post on Flatfish Eyes [...]

I’ve decided – it’s time for me to come out of my pseudonymous virtual closet.
Earlier this year I attended the ScienceOnline09 conference – a conference attended by over 200 science bloggers, educators, journalists, and researchers.
One of the sessions concerned online identity and posed the question “should individual bloggers keep their online identity anonymous or pseudonymous, [...]

I recently offered to put in a design for a new blog banner for the extraordinarily nerdy and equally awesome ocean blogger, Miriam, of The Oyster’s Garter.
She didn’t hate my design, which now adorns her digital abode.
If you haven’t been to The Oyster’s Garter, or if you find yourself thinking “what the hell is an [...]

In the past month… (top 6 in entertainment value)
“im a man in panties”
“Sarah Palin is a idoit”
“end of human race dna replication”
“truckpulling black widow”
“preparing for world war iii”
“i’m not even sure we exist same level of consciousness”
I have no idea how most of those came to me.
Really…

Well, it’s official: Science Online ’09 is sadly over.
I don’t even know where to begin in summarizing this truly wonderful, enlightening, and inspiring experience. For those of you who are unaware of Science Online ’09 (at Sigma Xi in Research Triangle Park, NC), it is an annual conference (an “unconference”) devoted to the world of [...]

I’ve had several people recently ask me about the reason for the name of this website and domain.
Let me first state that, no, I do not believe in any form of incorporeal, spiritual, immortal, or otherwise supernatural “soul.” There are many reasons that I disbelieve in a soul, but you can find a sufficient, if [...]

Update: all is well – I found the offending code and eliminated it mercilessly.
Sorry, but if you’re viewing this blog through Internet Explorer – almost NOTHING is working right.
I’m working to figure out what the heck is wrong. It seems to work fine in Firefox.

I decided to self-host this blog instead of relying on being hosted through blogger.com.
As such, you may notice a few things out of whack, ugly placements of things (such as those horrible ads on the right), or strange errors.
I hope to have most of the kinks worked out over the next few days, so please [...]