Well, looks like we are close to a complete dissertation. I just need to go back through and add the references using Reference Manager so it builds a bibliography for me, and format the graphics and make a few text tweaks.... I hope....

But the majority of it is out there. 107 pages.

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My old-as-the-hills-but-still-plugging-along fujitsu laptop was resurrected today with the arrival of a replacement power cord. Turns out that the silly computer left itself plugged directly into a wall socket (where it was attached temporarily in a different room than its normal home) overnight during a particularly foul thunderstorm.. and well, you can guess the rest.

Yay for a new power cord!

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when a major blogger reiterates your shtick....
Great minds think alike, I guess

of course, I beat her to it by more than 16 hours.....

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This is Cool!

Do the following:
1. Open your Gmail account
2. Click on the Spam folder to open it
3. Read the text just above the "delete forever" and "not spam" buttons
4. Refresh

Does anyone else have rotating Spam recipes?

BTW the other folders have different tags in the same place, my inbox has a Yahoo! News story and my "starred" folder tells me how I can use Yahoo! as an RSS reader. But the Spam recipes are amusing.

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Something to keep you busy while I work on my thesis today

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Can't ANYONE remember what movie this phrase comes from???

"Moles and trolls, moles and trolls...."

Do I need to do a whole geekitude post of bad movie quotes?

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1 Damn, am I the only dork that knows this answer? It was delivered by the very sexy Val Kilmer in Real Genius.

Posted by: Rosemary the Queen of All Evil at April 28, 2005 11:09 PM (w3ZBg)

2 I was just going to say Real Genius!! Too slow! :-)

Posted by: Sissy at April 28, 2005 11:19 PM (PjqiK)

3 Yes, but you only missed by 10 minutes, Sis Sissy! (I've been just waiting for the chance to call my blogSis that!)

Posted by: jeff (ponytailed conservative) at April 29, 2005 12:20 AM (Mu8gg)

4 Y'all missed it by a day. Geez. Ok. Rose wins!

Posted by: caltechgirl at April 29, 2005 12:34 AM (EtZVy)

5 Must say that I never saw that movie. I have seen so many baaaddd movies, I can't believe I missed that one. ;-)

Posted by: vw bug at April 29, 2005 07:51 AM (mPRqC)

6 Val Kilmer in Real Genius - with is a classic movie.

Posted by: Jon at April 29, 2005 08:15 AM (KgP4R)

7 Not a bad movie, just a bad quote.... For those of you who don't know, Real Genius is about 2 physics prodigies who attend a college called "Pacific Tech" in Southern California, which (strangely enough) looks like Caltech and has much of the feel of Caltech, and their plot to get revenge on a double-dealing smarmy professor who is building something dangerous....

Posted by: caltechgirl at April 29, 2005 09:42 AM (5VQpT)

8 Definitely doesn't sound like Space Balls. ;-)

Posted by: vw bug at April 29, 2005 11:22 AM (mPRqC)

9 I must have bad taste in movies since I liked that one!!!

Posted by: Amy at April 29, 2005 04:08 PM (VxnWV)

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From the Llama Guys:
--The ubiquitous state locator
--A version where the states disappear after you've placed them (ultra-hard version)
--The European version

From the Happy Dog:
--It'sJava Bowling

And from a number of people:
--The piggy personality test

Can you tell I've been writing my thesis again today?

Hey Ben-- I got 100% up to level 4 on the European one..... I still remember all that AD sh*t. Unbelievable. Beyond that, it's freaking impossible to place Liechtenstein or Andorra on an empty map properly....

Update: Here's another one, from Prof. Taylor:
The Ron Mexico Name Generator
(for those of you who need an alias for that herpes-spreading booty call) Mine is Victoria Monaco....

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Ok, no damn trolls, but lots of Moles for your whacking pleasure**.

Please don't hit the ones from Blacker Hovse...

*Special linky love to the first person who can tell me the movie containing this quote... I've got to start some kind of points system like Jim

**No, not THAT kind of whacking you sickos.

(h/t the Llama dudes)

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I think I've had this cold before. It makes your thumbs hurt too.

See below the fold.... more...

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...given my CD collection and the fact that the only country acts I saw on the list were Gretchen Wilson, LeeAnn Rimes, and Tim McGraw. (whatever happened to George Strait and Clint Black????)

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Visitor # 25,000 dropped in to the blogsplat page at 4:21:51 EDT from the MUSCTigers!

Yay!

Go on over there and meet Jeremy, Katie, and Jenks, three students at the Medical University of South Carolina, and enjoy a different perspective!

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At 1:03 pm EDT, SiteMeter reads 24,966.

34 to go.

Special linky recognition to the referrer(s)!

I'm betting it will be Jay and Deb again.... Or maybe Sadie this time....

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Visitor # 24,500 was referred by Dean's World sometime in the last hour!
WooHoo!!

There will be much rejoicing and link glory for the referrer of visitor #25,000! This will probably occur at the end of next week, especially if I get a HWNNL-lanche from the CotR again.

However, HWNNL is not eligible for link-love around here, so in that case, the referrer closest to 25,000 but not below who is NOT HWNNL will get special recognition... and perhaps a prize... Suggestions?

Also, this is post #50 as a munuvian.

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I have returned to Large Mammal status! I lost 150 spots in the process but hey, it works now.

Props to the Bear for cleaning up the ecosystem.

Congrats to him and the new Mrs. Bear, as well. May your den always be snug, and your days filled with honey and no bees

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...going on over at Dean's World about the bible and homosexuality. Read the comments.

I'm going to post my personal opinions here (Below the fold in case you don't care):
more...

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Ok, so it's Monday. Which sucks. I hate Monday mornings because of lab meeting at 9. Which means I have to be here BEFORE 9. (I usually come in 9-9:30). Ahh the advantages pf Academia.

Really, I think that's the only reason I didn't go for something else. Where else can you come in at 10 and go home at 6? Fits my sleep schedule SOOOO much better.

Anyway, the point of this post was to let you know that I have great plans for this week:
a roundup of British political news, focusing on the upcoming election
a link fest
pictures from my trip to Savannah (there aren't many, but I will put up a few)
a recipe for the CotR
Maybe some pictures of the Azaleas in my back yard...
and more!

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Does everybody see the rotating banners?

Just refresh the page and you should get a new banner (there are 5 right now, and the selection is random, just keep clicking)

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1 Nice looking site so far! I shall try trackbacking in a few minutes, when I get around to the very delayed blog entry of my own. And no, the banners are not rotating. Why'd you chose Movable Type? What were the pro's and con's you considered?

Posted by: Bill at April 06, 2005 11:38 PM (xhohP)

2 Yay! Welcome! MUST.UPDATE.MY.BLOGROLL...

Posted by: Boudicca at April 07, 2005 12:02 AM (z7nbM)

3 Those banners are awesome...I'll have to get you to make some for me!! (although my resolution is 800 x 600 and the tail end of the banner is off my screen)

Posted by: Gir at April 07, 2005 12:44 AM (oJTqx)

4 Oooh, I like this, love the star. Unfortunately I don't see any rotating banners ... does it matter that I'm using Firefox?

Posted by: Amanda at April 07, 2005 02:09 AM (PQWp3)

5 Rotating banners are working fine for me with both IE 6 and Firefox.

Posted by: Jim at April 07, 2005 04:57 AM (MDLz3)

6 Yep they work now in Safari. Just had to refresh Keep up the good work!

Posted by: Bill at April 07, 2005 09:19 AM (xhohP)

7 There's always a stubborn one in random selections. In this case, after many many refreshes, I put the direct URL to each graphic in turn in the address bar and actually got to the the #3 one. Oh, yay for the move! And no scrolling text! Mu Nu is a good choice, even if it is MT.

Posted by: Jay at April 07, 2005 10:48 AM (hAPdw)

8 Yay! Yep, banners lookin' good! Jay - I've been looking at options other than MT for the past 6 months, and none of them have measured up so far. Lots of things good for one blog, or two or three, but they all fail miserably with 150. I'm currently investigating Drupal, we'll see how that goes.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 07, 2005 08:13 PM (+S1Ft)

9 I like, I like!

Posted by: AmandaDufau at April 07, 2005 09:02 PM (NZbgE)

10 Yep, I get the rotating banners. Things are looking good! And I think you're getting off of Blogger at an opportune moment. These past several days, posting has been veddy buggy over there. I've been trying endlessly this evening to update a recent post on my blog, no luck, GRRRRRRRR!!

Posted by: Paul Burgess at April 07, 2005 11:12 PM (7EVyU)

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