For those of you who know my husband:

I am delighted to announce that, subsequent to his two year review, Doug received glowing recommendations and recognition at every level, and has been promoted to Associate Professor! He will also be taking on the departmental directorship this summer.

Hooray!

Lynn :-)

Re: Icon Futurama's Prof. Farnsworth is Doug's alter ego.


Farnsworth/Doug: "Bad news, everyone! You're not good enough to go on your next mission/schedule your defense date."

Leela/Grad students: "Why? Says who?"

Farnsworth/Doug: "Because. And says me!"

Or:

Professor Bubblegum Tate (senior lecturer of physics at Globetrotter U)/Graduate student presenting GIS project proposal: "Now look here, Prof. [He draws some diagrams on a board.] I think we got ourselves an excess of Chronitons in the subatomic interstices."

Farnsworth/Doug, after listening to said student GIS project proposal: "Something involving that many big words could easily destabilize Time itself!"

OK, I admit it. You were right about Torchwood getting better. Still not my favorite, but I do enjoy it.

Watching "The Sarah Jane Chronicles" tonight. Cute. I like the actress, and it's always good to see K-9. Clearly a kids' show, though. This pilot episode does seem to harken a bit to the Futurama's "Fry and the Slurm Factory" episode.

But . . . next Friday, a new Dr. Who!!!

Life is good.

When Matt came home for Christmas break, the first thing he did was hook me up with a screensaver called Electric Sheep.

From Wiki: a distributed computing project for animating and evolving fractal flames, which are in turn distributed to the networked computers, which display them as a screensaver on the individual node computers of the distributed network.

Naturally, I have no idea what that means, but it's really cool! Your computer pulls "sheep"—fractal flame programs— off the 'net somehow, builds its collection, and gradually morphs them into ever evolving patterns. And it even works on Macs! How neat is that?

The only problem is that if I sit and watch it for a while, I can't look away. Art created by Hypnotoad.