I’m a bit of a train person but no expert, so while I’m not certain, I’m fairly sure that the Shave and a Haircut rhythm is not a Federal Railroad Administration-approved whistle signal, so props to the engineer who uses it anyway, I hear it in Tosa occasionally as they pass by.
I took this photo today, October the 16th, 2024. I don’t know how long this Christmas display has been up in Kohl’s, but even today is possibly a bit early for Christmas, some might say.
I have fiddled with my RSS/Atom settings and I think it’s serving the full text properly now.
From bcj:
Observation: A shower is a much tinier room
Observation: A shower is a much tinier room than a person would normally be comfortable being in
Theory: We could build much smaller and more efficient homes if we had them constantly spray hot water on the occupant
I don’t know…
Pros:
Cons:
I did a bunch of household cleaning over the weekend and at some point at the end of the weekend was using the sink in the bathroom and noticed my tiny, distorted reflection in the clean and shiny chrome faucet spout and my first thought was, well, look at that, I have boobs, even viewed in a weird distorted faucet reflection.
HRT is magic, is all I can say. I did not appreciate how much this would feel right.
I was picking up a package today, I had one of my cuter Flo Masks on (old photo of me with it here)
and one of the people working there asked me what kind it was. It’s always nice to have a friendly question even if it’s hard to say what to make of it now that nearly nobody is doing anything at all to even attempt to make the disaster any less bad even directly for their own immediate selves 
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I saw this on Friday in the parking lot at Village Pond in Brown Deer when I went up there to run:
Also, I took this photo after running 10km, I guess I really do just look like this now:
Last night I dreamed that I was in some sort of mass spectrometry lab and was telling others how I got my start in protein analysis, doing protein sequencing by Edman degradation and got into an explanation of how it works, the phenyl isothiocyanate reacting with the N-terminal amino group, cleaving off the modified amino acid with trifluroacetic acid, which leaves a fresh N-terminal amine for the next cycle and the freed derivatized amino acid is then sent to an HLPC where they separate under pretty normal reverse phase conditions and show up on UV detection.
I haven’t done this in a long time now, but a girl never forgets her first protein analysis method!
In this video Angela Collier explains why rubidium is so dang popular in physics experiments:
It turns out I hardly have to actually write anything to spend lots of time working on my blog! I can just mess around with the formatting and fiddle with the tag display and try to get h-entry metadata added and puzzle over why things aren’t working the way I expected and basically get lost in the computer toucher thing where you constantly fiddle and compile and test and google for documents and repeat endlessly!