It's all in the swagger

If I need to explain what this is to you, you shouldn't be reading this blog.

Happy Passover!

Since we had our seder last night, some friends requested Diana's superb chicken recipe (nobody requested my brisket recipe, though. Sniff.) Reproduced here:

I used Rub with Love Chicken Rub http://store.tomdouglas.com/products/rub-with-love-chicken-rub. If you don't want to order it, you can make a reasonable substitute with 1/4 cup brown sugar, 4 tsp smoked paprika, 4 tsp coriander, 4 tsp garlic powder, and 2 tbsp chinese five spice powder.

Clean and rinse the chicken. Coat liberally with olive oil, then season with spice rub and salt and pepper. Place the chicken breast side down in the roasting pan. Roast for 15 minutes at 350 per pound of chicken. 2/3 of the way through the cooking time, flip the chicken breast side up and coat again with olive oil. Use a meat thermometer to test for doneness- the chicken can be removed from the oven when the temperature reaches 145 in the thickest part of the chicken (between the drumstick and the thigh). Allow the chicken to rest, tented with foil, for 15 minutes before cutt

On This Day In History

For a few years at Princeton and U of I, I was in the habit of making posters for fake talks and hanging them around the physics department on April Fool's Day. Some of my favorites included:

Applications of Non-Linear, Non-Homogeneous, Non-Solvable Partial Differential Equations

and

Theoretical Biophysics Colloquium

Insane in the Membrane:

Insane in the Brain?

Prof. B. Real

Cypress Hill University

The Journal of Universal Rejection

http://www.universalrejection.org/

This is so brilliant that I'm actually sad I didn't think of it myself.

"The founding principle of the Journal of Universal Rejection (JofUR) is rejection. Universal rejection. That is to say, all submissions, regardless of quality, will be rejected."

I may dig up "Quantify vs Quantitate" and submit it, but right now the Intarwebs have forgotten it, and I'd need to go back through my old archives to find it.

This Shit Just Got Real

Because I know you've missed me.

A Discovery with Many Potentially Useful Applications

Via regs to my inbox (it's not new, but still funny): Medical researcher discovers integration, gets 75 citations

For Hire: LabView coders and optics jocks

I've been doing some work for a local biotech, and they're currently in need of somebody to do some short-term LabView coding and optics work, like in the next few weeks. It pays well, I just have absolutely no time for it right now. If you do, let me know! This could become a longer-term situation if it works out. The location is in silicon valley not far from Stanford. Struggling grad students welcome!