Snippets

This article solves a lot of problems for me. I've always wanted to be a wine snob and never knew enough. Now atleast I can bluff my way through the wine conversations that crop up occasionally at parties. (What a lusciously full Merlot! There I've even made up my first official snobby wine connoisseur sentence!)

This title made me laugh:
Biological Basis of the Third-Cousin Crush
Johan N. Lundström, Charles J. Wysocki, Mats J. Olsson, George Preti, and Kunio Yamazaki
Science 30 May 2008: 1160-1161.

Unfortunately, I was at home on Friday evening when I found it on the Science website and I didn't have full access. I almost drove to lab so I could print the article out and read it. My roommate told me not be SUCH a geek. So I waited till Saturday morning. And it turned to be a letter in response to another article I had commented on earlier here. 
Unfortunately, I don't even know my third cousins. And considering my family, they're probably trolls anyway. 

I heard this song yesterday. And its been in my head ever since. I've heard it about 20 times since. Sometimes, Rahman is just killer. K-I-L-L-E-R. And the hero reminds me of Jugal Hansraj. Fresh-faced cuteness. Easy on the eyes, for sure. Lets hope he can act better than poor old JH. It looks a typical Bollywood college movie. Not one I'm going to be running to the theatres to watch any day soon.

I watched "All the Presidents Men" last Friday. It was gripping. I'm totally tempted to buy the book. Except I've sworn not to buy any books until I finish the 3 unread books I have at home. I'm reading Phantoms of the Brain by VS Ramachandran now. Tres cool. I'd sworn I wouldn't leave Massachusetts because I like it so much and there are so many great schools right here with good post-doc opportunities. But this stuff makes me want to beg an interview with him. Even though he's all the way on the boring West Coast where there's only one season and its always sunny. Guess I need to graduate first.