Corey’s Blather Blog

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/12/17/once-more-breach/
 
I am having trouble visualizing a week at Jaime's parents' place
without a video game to play. Or ten.
 
Strange looks when they realize you haven't been to sleep overnight
playing some new game is de rigeur.

http://www.physorg.com/news148578252.html
 
I just need to get in the habit.

Seems to me like this happens all the time:
 
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/shitload_of_math_due_monday
 
Via: http://scienceblogs.com/sunclipse/

Got a link about Newsweek changing.
 
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/12/newsweek-team-of-rivals/
 
We've been subscribers for years. You gotta have SOMETHING in the
bathroom, after all.
 
If it changes for the worse though... I wonder what we can replace it with?
 
I want to get a Physics journal but those are more like textbooks. I
need pen and paper and a lot more time to dissect a magazine like
that. I suppose I could browse it on the can and then concentrate
later on the articles I need to study.

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/12/bailout-open-thread/

Is that smoke I smell? Is Rome burning?

Three SUVs on the stage at church, praying for a bailout.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/08/us/08pray.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&ref=todayspaper&adxnnlx=1228770355-j0yKLjZ8gyjEutA2d6LLpQ

Umm... it would be GOD's WILL that the rest of the country chip in to support the fattest, laziest, least-deserving industry in the country?

The union "has done all it can"?

Err... yeah... that's the PROBLEM, you MORON.

Now it's time for prayer, alright. Pray you get a bloody CLUE.

A new Battlestar Galactica Prequel. I got it from /. and one of the comments was "Dallas with Spaceships". Sounds about right.

http://www.thrfeed.com/2008/12/caprica-series.html

BAH HUMBUG!

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/12/3/days-yore/

I would do this if I could talk on the phone. Remind me to do this to your Mom when her laptop doesn't work at Christmas. LOL

Colour me surprised.

http://www.rationalmoms.com/2008/12/01/the-myth-of-the-%e2%80%9csugar-high%e2%80%9d/

I guess when I get jittery after eating sugar it must be the (almost always present) associated caffeine that's actually the cause.

Or I'm susceptible to the placebo effect. ME!? Jeeze.

... this study on pregnant women consuming caffeine seems to have legitimately covered the spectrum from very small doses up to normal and high doses.

http://www.physorg.com/news144928057.html

The conclusion is that there is a correlation between birth weight and caffeine intake, even if the intake is well below the level of one cup of coffee per day. The recommendation is to restrict intake as much as possible.

What I don't see discussed is whether this study checks for confounding effects like... do mothers who consume a small amount of caffeine per day stay more active, and is the baby thus lighter because he's not overweight? I feel like any discussion of birth weight is complicated by the fact that averages are usually used, and at least in Western countries and the US, averages reflect the increasingly obese population. (Witness the fact that our child is in the 5th percentile by weight but seems completely healthy and "right" sized. Are we blind or is America just really fat?)

I'm not scientist but that's probably a question that has to be answered.