This is me reporting on Science magazine reporting on findings reported in the Journal of Archaeological Science. This photo is of what appears to be 200,000 year old-human hairs found in fossilized hyena poop. This is a world record by about 190,000 years.

Was on the road, as a passenger, for once…

Which means my hands are free(er) to take low quality cameraphone photos. This was a pretty sweet little contraption which surely cannot be legal. Can it? Surely doesn’t help with aerodynamics/gas mileage but maybe that’s the price you have to pay to send out your message.

And taxi up ahead had a tumor growing off the side which was totally disgusting. The driver had to take the next exit so we couldn’t get a better view but I think you get the picture.

My reverse fortune was told to me by bazooka joe gum this morning. Pretty cool huh? I was all worried I was going to be late this morning and then I wasn’t and then there was this gum saying “late” to me. I thought it was saying “you’re late” even though I wasn’t but now I realize it was just discussing the concept of lateness, which I was experiencing an absence of. I’m only realizing just now how happy this gum made me.

When I take my mice out of the pool I dry them with a paper towel and set the wet towel to dry on a downdraft table so I can reuse it because I’m concerned about the environment. The towel spoke to me the other day. It said “Africa.”

Or maybe it was the table that spoke, speaking to me through the towel. Because later it seemed to say “Africa, post-additional continental drift.”

When you’re world class like I am you simply don’t have time to be “blogging” all the time. In fact, I was too busy being on a panel of expert scientists, discussing the progress and pitfalls of stem cell research. Many important ideas were shared, and the importance of these ideas was directly proportional to the quality of the hand gestures used for emphasis. Many people told me after my talk that they liked my ideas best, because I was the cleanest speaker on the panel. Because I showered just beforehand.

So check out this gem a coworker just found. All I could think is, “I hope someday I can create an acronym like “ASS” and get it published, in the title no less.” I had to see if it was legit so I went to the journal and found the intended title. Unfortunately, Ass Inhibition doesn’t really exist – it looks like it was just a typo.

But then what happened? Did the editors miss a big “Ass” in the title?! A little bit of detective work uncovered that the authors are from Germany and over there they have that little symbol that stands for two S’s in English (ß) BUT, unfortunately for them, also looks like a beta. So a beta turned into a ß turned into SS thereby creating ASS. Funny.

Every single day I have to unravel my headphone knot. If my ipod+headphones go in my pocket for anything longer than 5 min this is the problem I face. Today I had enough and decided to put this in perspective:

Amount of my life wasted = (3 times per day) x (45 sec to unravel) x (5 days per week) x (52 weeks per year) x (40 years of my life where I could be using these types of earphones)

= 1,404,000 seconds
= 390 hours
= 16.25 days
= 2+ weeks

Update! Related thought I just had: How much of our time is spent pooping?

(1.5 times per day) x (7.5 min per session) x (7 days per week (no holidays here!)) x (52 weeks per year) x (75 years per human life)

= 213 days = 30 weeks = 0.58 years. If you count the time also spent peeing, washing our hands and getting to the bathroom etc., we easily spend a year of our lives doing excretion-related tasks!

Moreover, is this time wasted?  Does Lifehacker have a solution for this?

Guess what the mysterystick is. OK. I’ll give you a clue. It’s a hair from my face. Sometimes I get these hairs that are like sticks and they look like bristles found on heavy duty scrubbing brushes. Chinese people that can write your name on a grain of rice could probably split these hairs about 30 times. Records could be set with these hairs. For $10 I’ll sell you one (I’m not joking). But I want co-authorship on the record (well, maybe authorship is a bit much, but acknowledgement…)

So humans have been in Oregon for 15 000 years and you know how they know this? They found their poop. Makes me glad I’ve been saving mine.