The Piri Reis map, the Bimini Road, everything!

Plus, busy weekend, House, Making Money, med changes, conferences and less.

Multipoll: What will I do on my week off?

Beer, etc.
Voting closes Monday evening.

So I get back my first paper of my career as a graduate student with a passing grade. (A passing grade being defined by me as one that will keep my overall GPA at 3.5 or higher on a 4.0 scale.)

Blather follows.

For the simple, and those that don't quite qualify for that title.

I'm not talking about a bailout here, even the Democrats in Congress have backed off of that, but something probably has to be done. But it might not be.

When too many is not enough.

Nice that I got to it before the next weekend.

(electric) banjo vs sarod...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQrVhnRNZF4

Alas the quality of the video is cack....
(I highly recommend the Tinselworm DVD)

It's between 0:30 and 1:25 that really caught my ear.
 
[They wander off into something else at 4:30...]

and other than having caught my wife's cold, thus being physically miserable from Sunday night on, it was a very good visit.  I didn't get to see any HuSi-ites, though, due to my health (why make perfectly good people sick?), time, and general uppity-ness.

Update [2008-11-20 19:16:7 by blixco]: Flickr link in last graph.

So I was at a retirement party for our CEO and I ran into a couple people from the department, a VP and some up-and-coming girl, and they were all, so, how's stuff going in your area, and then they were like, wait, so what is it exactly that you do? And I was like, um, I actually haven't done anything at all productive in the last four months. Shit. I need to send out resumes TODAY. I just got an alert that $CONSULTING_COMPANY has an opening that's a good fit for me. On the one hand, it's consulting, on the other, it's a good fit.