1. I love my AppleTV. For years I've wanted a home media center. After scrounging and saving (for about as long as I've been pining for it) I was finally able to put one together. Nothing too big (though a 42" television looks big unless it's side-by-side with a 50") or too fancy. I did promise myself I'd keep it all Panasonic so all the components would mesh together nicely, so the AppleTV is the exception. With that said however, it compliments the rest of the system. The sweet thing is, since all of my media is on my desktop and sorted (in a very anal-rententive manner) in iTunes, it was almost a no-brainer to go with the AppleTV (also looked at the WD TV Live Plus but it doesn't come standard with wireless). The wireless connection between the desktop in my home office, and the AppleTV in my living room is perfect for someone (i.e., me) who didn't want to run wires throughout the house. It doesn't currently have Hulu access, but that's about the only downside I've seen so far. Now that I've got my home media center, I can focus on the less important things ... like furniture.

2. Here Come the Mummies came out with a new album, Carnal Carnival. You got to check it out. If you don't want to buy without extensive listening. They have a free 8 song EP available for download.

3. Who knew that AOL still existed, let alone had the money to buy HuffPo?

4. A bit of lab etiquette ... if you are working with a collaborator keep your naming convention for your samples consistent. It's bad enough that you're working with multiple (over five) environments, with multiple sites (over ten) within those environments, and multiple temporal samplings (over four). What makes it ten times worse is when you hand me a spread sheet that has four different naming conventions for each site ... because you probably couldn't remember what you named the sites the last time you were there.This is not the way to make friends, or keep collaborators happy.

5. One would think that merely placing the camera on a headband and wearing it 24/7 would be easier than having a titanium plate inserted in ones head. But hey, what do I know about art?

6. A set of intriguing discoveries may loom on the horizon (or under it), now lets hope they don't contaminate it.