More reasons why my job is awesome

Last week, the lab across the hall from my office held a sort of “labwarming*” party to show off their recently-renovated digs. Food, drink, conversations, et al. Reason #A to love this job: Beer at the party. Reason #B: When the party officially began, I was setting up the PI’s new network printer. The process [...] [...]

Back to the grind

As you may recall, neither Fred nor I are singing with the full chorus in the upcoming show. We are doing the smaller ensemble, though, and had our first rehearsal last night. The show’s theme is movie songs, themes and otherwise, and as a smaller group we get to chip in cool little extras. We’ve [...] [...]

Honestly, it wasn’t so bad.

Round 1A of the ol’ root canal was Tuesday evening. This particular round is best described as “excavation”. My upper-left quadrant was numbed, and a dental dam was stuck around the affected tooth to isolate it from my tongue and saliva. The dentist and his assistant worked to scrape out any infected tissue from the [...] [...]

Writing laws through a wiki

So an unnamed member of an unnamed government contacted the Wikimedia Foundation recently, asking for staff guidance on setting up a wiki so that unnamed citizens of the unnamed jurisdiction could collaborate on new laws. Since the staff mainly handle the operational aspects of the various wikis, the question got passed off to the volunteers [...] [...]

I know, lots of tooth posts. Sorry.

OK, so yes, I am posting more on my ongoing dental saga. It’s a notable situation in my life at the moment, though, so tough cookies. Last night was the initial wave of treatment on #12. After a very bitter topical anesthetic and some injected lidocaine the dentist and his assistant got to work scouring [...] [...]