Archive for 2008

Physics: final in two days

Some of the problems in my physics book make me look twice. This one waxed a bit philosophical: What is it that is hot in sunlight and cold in shadow? And this was just bizarre: Imagine a baby alien playing with a spherical balloon the size of the Earth in the outer solar system

Botany Club Spring Roll Party

Botany Club cooks for our end of semester parties. This spring we made spring rolls. We used a total of 20 plant families in our ingredients. I got ones with too many hot peppers.

Spring Break, day 4

When we arrived in Jalama the evening before, we decided not to sleep at the campground, but to sleep in this shelter someone had built on the beach. I was warm and toasty in the cramped quarters – the first night I wasn’t kept awake by my frozen feet! And it was wonderful to wake […]

Weekly Top 5

Mercury Rev – Deserter’s Songs Thievery Corporation – The Cosmic Game Kronos Quartet – Kronos Quartet Performs Philip Glass Dvorak – Symphony No. 9 “From the New World” Stanley Myers – Deer Hunter and Other Themes

photo365, day 3

I went to Flagstaff’s first Friday artwalk last night. I didn’t take pictures of the art. Mostly because at the only exhibit I really liked, I forgot I had my camera. A Seasoned Kitchen, which sells all sorts of wonderful, colorful, tempting cooking things, was open for artwalk. At artwalk, most places have snacks.  A […]