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Well, not much new to report. It's a rainy day. The first in a long while. The first real rain, anyway. There's been a couple showery days, but nothing major. Not since Brendon showed up here in Vancouver, anyway, which was on June 10th or so?

So that's what I've been up to, for the most part, and hence the lack of website updates: hanging out with Brendon, who visited from Sydney for about a month. He left recently, unable to find a job and quickly running out of cash, creditors polishing their baseball bats, practicing their knee-cap height swings.

(Speaking of practicing their swings, check this out. It's one of the only cool things I've seen that is related to baseball: Josh Womack's crazy bat skills)

But don't worry, dear reader. He's ok now. You see, despite being unable to find a job in Canada, even one that might involve transferring pizza from a heated tray to a cardboard plate then handing it to a drunk girl in a miniskirt, he was able to secure, in about a week, nearly a dozen interviews. He is, as they say, the cat's pyjamas.

Clearly then, Australia (or at least, Sydney) is a better place for an engineer to be looking for work. But I guess we could have expected that, since Vancouver is hardly an engineering mecca. I guess he was saying that other cities have even more jobs. Crazy.

Ha. I'm writing about engineering jobs. I don't even like engineering jobs.

I do however, like learning, and I like science.

Here is some really, really awesome science: Reverse-Engineering the Quantum Compass of Birds. This is seriously messed up. Talk about taking science through every level, right from the most smallest (most smallerest) through atoms, to molecules, to cells, to systems! It's amazing.

This is another instance of what I thought was one of the coolest things I'd read... but it sounded a lot cooler in the other report, mostly because it sounds like they misinterpreted the results. This report isn't as exciting: Human speech gene gives mouse a baritone squeak. While browsing that site, however, I found a link to more interesting article, Everything you always wanted to know about female ejaculation (but were afraid to ask). I will refrain from commenting on the awesomeness of female reproductive science.

This is also amazing. I'm going to make a conscious effort to do this in my daily life now. It's like counting cards at blackjack. Why not stack the odds in your favour? Requests to the Right Ear Are More Successful Than to the Left. Also very interesting. Of course this is less surprising, since I've seen stories of this effect (the "sidedness") in other cases, and often spray those factoids to anyone who will listen. Here is an article that discusses it: The Photogenic Side of Your Face - Left or Right?. (Hahah, that website is called "Asian Fanatics" or something. Does Colin run a website in his spare time?)

Anyway, I haven't done the math myself, but I'd be curious to see whether I personally adhere to these instinctual rules. Maybe my brain doesn't know! Maybe I sit with my wrong side facing forward. I am left-handed, after all! Perhaps I am debilitated, handicapped, physically retarded, as it were. My brain, reversed in an unfortunate cellular train-wreck, confused as to which way is the right way to effective. No wonder I live such a failure riddled life! No wonder most of my socks have an "L" and an "R" on them, to help me distinguish! I need all the help I can get.

ads? - prs, 2009-06-25, 09:47:40 You have ads on your site now? I see them on the right side of the page. What's up with that Mitch?