Off topic I can't resist the urge to post a link to one of my favourite writers, Peter David , for his comments on Saddam Hussein'...

Happy Birthday to me Today's journal entry is the only thing I'm doing that's even remotely research related. My present to me...

Less money And another thing. We had a meeting of the College of Science & Engineering yesterday (of which the Biology Department is a...

If there's no snow in Texas... ...How can I be snowed under? When it's work rather than white stuff, I guess. Teaching, trying t...

Unexpected interruptions Two fire alarms late this afternoon. Two . Very distracting. Fortunately, I guess, they were late enough that I j...

People find other people endlessly fascinating. And not any particular sort of people; pretty much anyone will do. Although I have never w...

Microscopic! After sundry delays, I finally signed off approving bids for one of my microscopes today. Keep watching to see how soon it...

Meeting with Dean Several of the assistant professors from my department had a meeting with the new Dean of the College of Science & E...

Challenger and Columbia The radio has just reminded me that the Challenger disaster was seventeen years ago. Time flies... The Challeng...

Too much stuff, too little money Wow, do I have a lot of work to do this semester. Barely able to catch a breath to continue the blog. Ba...

Still here and stuff I'd been neglectful since the Christmas and New Year's holiday. It's a neglect brought on by teaching two...

Well, dang! In the bad news column, just checked my emailbox and found this: "Dear Dr. Faulkes: "I regret to inform you that t...

Bugger. In the bad news column: My "letter of intent" for the Whitehall Foundation won't be continuing into a full grant pr...

Symposium poised for publication And in the good new column: The Animal Behavior Society symposium I've been organizing looks like it...

Manual labor For this I spent six years in grad school? I was planning on getting out of the office early, when one of my colleagues wal...

Classes done for the year I just gave my last lecture for the year! Huzzah! The work for this semester's teaching is not done, though...

I threatened I would do this. But seeing Gould's book on the general science section on the shelves of Barnes & Noble decided it fo...

Role reversal! Today's top in Edinburg, Texas: 9 degrees C. (Felt like 5 degrees C, according to the meteorologists.) Today's top...

This comic pretty much says it all. Otherwise, how are things? I'm in the last two weeks of classes. Luckily, by having my classes tau...

Policing Walked into my second lecture this morning, and was puzzled to see men in uniform with microphones attached to their shoulders. T...