Between being away last week and one of my favorite small conferences this weekend, I'm up to my ass in alligators. But on my ride in this morning, I was reminded of this song and have been on a Fiona Apple kick today. Besides, this video cracks me up and is a solid antidote for the "fusion" crap @drugmonkeyblog keeps posting to twitter.
I am a junior faculty member working in a field of evolution, using a variety of different study organisms. The term ‘spandrels’ was adopted by Lewontin and Gould in a 1979 paper “to designate the class of forms and spaces that arise as necessary byproducts of another decision in design, and not as adaptations for direct utility in themselves”. I think this term can also be applied to life as a junior faculty member. email: proflikesubstance[at]gmail.com
Is his beard ironic?
Only mustaches are ironic.
Went to school with her, grades 2-8. All of us were skeptical that her middle name was really Apple, but I guess it was.
Whenever I see Zach G, I think of his character in Dinner for Schmucks. It doesn't matter what other role he's playing, I have involuntary flashback to the fake-turtleneck-wearing mind-control-master in a cubicle...