We're all Ziggy

Unhip yet unbowed, Ziggy turns 35

Ziggy is sort of amusing, I found it sad however that the ziggy creator is in a nursing home. Its too bad the Ziggy royalties can't pay for some hospice nurses and allow the guy to reside in a home. Hopefully its a nice nursing home, more like assisted living apartments.

http://www.milaadesign.com/wizardy.html

You've got to check out this site (above)... I think some spirits read your mind or something ;D It is really weird. The only way I "messed the site" up is if I didn't follow directions, or if I did my math wrong.

If you crack this code... I've love to hear how it works.

Happy Fourth everyone!

To celebrate U.S. Independence Day I thought I'd post this article about how we snub the rest of the world in terms of Sports Entertainment.

World Cup a big yawn in soccer-hating US

"If America hadn't been founded by the pilgrims leaving ... to seek freedom of religion, a few hundred years later America would have been founded by the pilgrims seeking freedom from soccer," wrote Rollie Robinson of Portland, Oregon.

Actually the Cup is garnering a lot of attention here in Boston, although I'm willing to bet its just being in the proximity of the city, immigrants, and the schools and colleges. Tonight I noticed couple of stores in the mall had "Brazil" themed window displays and one wasn't even a "sporting goods" store.

Hey Jens? Did you get to any games?

Anyhow... as Bushie likes to say...

May God Bless You, and may God Bless the United States of America!
(Isn't that technically taking the lord's name in vain by definition?)

I saw some great graffiti in Cambridge today that simply said "Bombing for peace". I was wondering how many people (likely tourists from RED states for the most part....) miss the sarcasm of the message. The "o"s appear as peace signs to drive it home.

Pub Crawl...In the lab, well sort of.

At work today with in our "larger" department, every group visited each other's floor or area for a tour and vittles. It ate up pretty much the entire latter half of the day.

Our floor did a fourth of July theme which went over well. I think for the most part we had the best food of anyone. Christine rented a hot dog cooker which spun each hotdog individually and had a spot for steamed rolls. We had the option of beef, chicken and turkey dogs... (we couldn't find tofu on short notice). Additionally we had Sheldon's buffalo wings Mike's guacamole, blueberry & apple pie, cupcakes, potato salad, celery sticks, Sam's Summer ale with Lemon, regular Sam Adams, Blue Power aid, Red punch, and sprite (A red white and blue drink mix) Chris and Sheldon projected a fireworks MPEG onto the wall using the meeting projector and Sheldon's laptop. Oh... chocolate chip cookies, I'm sure I'm forgetting some other food... peanuts! There was still more. On top of eating & drinking at several other Pharm/Sci department lounges it was a fulfilling day.

The tours of the labs of other departments were nice. I'm always complaining that I feel we don't know what's going on in the rest of the company. I held off of going for a nuclear magnetic resonance demonstration because I was told it would demagnitize the credit card strips in my wallet. I'm not sure everyone was told this, we'll see if any problems develop. I'm a little bummed I missed it, everyone was ooohing and aaahhing.

ENTERTAINMENT
I couldn't sleep last night and I ended up watching this ridiculous comedy show called "Strangers with Candy". It was hilarious. It had Stephen Colbert in it, and the star was a woman named Amy Sedaris. I googled her and found this neat fan site. The following link is an assortment of weird "facts" about her and it had me laughing out loud.

About Amy

So the TV show, I find out is now being made into a movie. Here's Amy on Letterman being quirky and weird promoting the film. I though she had to be an unfortunate looking woman after seeing the show, but she has a total rubber face much like Jim Carey as is evident in the letterman clip below. Actually she's quite fetching. An amusing related sampling from the about Amy website above:

"When Paper magazine named her one of New York's most beautiful women, she showed up to the photo show looking unkempt, with unwashed hair, and had a make-up artist make her look battered and beaten."

Be warned, its long, it is for the bored and curious with time on their hands.



I think I'll have to check out the movie, I'm a stickler for weird comedy. It definitely has a very Indie sort of vibe.

Wednesday on the town... And Political stuff

Wednesday Night: Had a great night out with Kate. We ate at Mike's in Davis square. For those who don't know, it is a Davis Square landmark (In Somerville, a suburb of Boston & Cambridge) that serves a multitude of Italian dishes and sandwiches at low prices while also boasting a significant wine & beer selection, despite a very low key cafeteria style (Formica) decor. The place was really hopping! They've done a little renovation, which unfortunately, I feel removed some of the restaurant's retro charm. We walked to Harvard square after eating where we caught the T and headed back to our respective homes. The weather was quite nice, and although it appeared like rain was not far away, it held off. The clouds were moving rapidly and an odd layering effect caused the sky to look really interesting at times.

At Mike's the Sox game was on, seems that knowledge of Pedro's tricks still permeates the league. Ahhh poor Pedro.

Politics: In continuation of my "It's not rocket science" theme on Politics, here's an article on recent statements made by the highly regarded Illinois Senator, Barack Obama.

Obama to Democrats: Woo evangelicals

Stephen Colbert vs. Congressman Lynn Westmoreland: The 10 Commandments