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Thursday, August 11, 2005

Alumni Clubbing Meg's running sort of a blogger's hootenanny this week, and go take a look, it's a lot of fun.   She asked for a subject for today's entry, and, being the helpful fellow I am, I remembered a caption to a picture in my wife's college alumni magazine (Carnegie Mellon).  The picture accompanied an article about the chemical engineering department, and showed a shiny contraption with many hoses and valves.  The caption read, "The ultra-high vacuum surface analysis chamber is used to study the enantioselective adsorption of chiral molecules on chiral metal surfaces."  So I suggested that the subject of Meg's blog entry be "The enantioselective adsorption...etc."  In retrospect, it was sorta cruel.  I rock! By way of contrast, my own recent alumni magazine (Ohio State) featured an article of several pages detailing what an alum can and can't do for student-athletes and recruits.  A former Heisman trophy winner is our alumni director.  Several incidents over the last year made the article germane and essential, including a head basketball coach who paid a recruit's family $5,000 and a booster who left an envelope of cash at his business' reception desk for the starting quarterback (who actually showed up and took it).  These things lead one to believe that the university community's understanding of the nuanced definition of the term "student-athlete" has eroded somewhat, and perhaps a review of some major points is necessary. 5:31:59 AM    Speak to me! []  TrackBack  []

Am I An Idiot, or What? Kind of dispirited here, blogwise.  After the euphoria of finding my camera after thinking I'd lost it on a hike a couple of weeks ago, you'd think I would conduct my affairs a bit differently.  But, no, there I was turning my pack and my car inside out on Sunday after returning from a day of hiking and watching my wife and kid climb sheer rock faces, and taking a slew of terrific photographs of it all, looking for my Canon S300 again, and knowing in my gut I'd left it on a rock where I had watched my kid's last climb of the day. I've gotten so I carry it everywhere, because I've taken a delight in capturing the gorgeous and the oddball stuff I run across and posting it here.  I feel sort of naked, or handicapped, (or naked and handicapped - that'll get me some Google action!) without it.  And you have to deal with the mundane black-and-white of my words as a consequence.  Collateral damage. I don't think it's coming back this time, and I'll reluctantly start looking on eBay tomorrow for a replacement that will fit into my cool waterproof case. 12:17:00 AM    Speak to me! []  TrackBack  []