August 18th, 2007

Sometimes you can’t get any wetter, so you might as well just jump in the nearest lake, even if it is Lough Shannagh in the Mourne Mountains.

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August 16th, 2007

Denise O’Leary highlights a newspaper column by a fellow Toronto journalist who is frustrated at getting angry complaint letters everytime he writes about evolution. IMHO it describes perfectly the sort of people who email me to tell me how stupid I am. Here’s an excerpt…
…we must ask ourselves why so many people get so excited [...]

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August 4th, 2007

Sometimes I feel bad that my PhD has taken me almost 4 years so far, but at least it hasen’t taken me 36 years like Brian May. It’s due September 15th, so right now my life consists of working 9 to 5, coming home and then working on my PhD. Not a lot of fun [...]

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