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It’s Pearl Harbor Day once again. Seventy years ago America;s navy was attacked without warning by a regime drunk on visions of world dominion. Ultimately they failed, though it took one person out of every eight in the United States joining the military to make that happen, along with the efforts of allied forces […] This entry is part of a series, New Orleans Scene»
Our first night in New Orleans, and we chose to see the French Quarter right away. Can you believe it? (I don’t count the previous evening, as we’d just arrived and were too tired to pub crawl explore properly.) It was a cool, dry […] This entry is part of a series, New Orleans Scene»
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never lie down with a woman who has more troubles than you. And never, ever eat at a place called Mom’s. Anybody who studies life extensively will be able to cite these principles and more. They’re universal, […]
Starting this morning, we’re on a raid road trip to New Orleans, in the next-door country of Louisiana. The American Chemical Society is holding a big party regional meeting, and we’re going as a group to present some chemical research. And eat spicy Cajun. And tour the rue Bourbon. It’s purely educational, of course. Seven of […]
September has snuck up on us, it seems. “Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug,” John Lithgow once stated. Seems he was right, at least this once… Of course, the start of September (or any other month) is a man-made delineation, and the seasons usually ignore such artificial markers and go […]
Classes started today. I’ll list that as the excuse for the paucity of daily postings hereabouts. After all, as “new” faculty hereabouts, there have been more meetings than the BP disaster glee club. HR, committees, welcome this and signing that; the amount of stuff to do was frankly surprising, and I can’t really be […] |
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