I grew up on a steady diet of Kurt Loder. I did a little laugh/cry to hear him described as "that old guy".

Whoa nellie. When I graduated from college at 27 my parter's parents gave me a gift bag that had, among other things, lots of cooking implements with cheeky notes about how I'd have time to cook. Now, perhaps unbeknownst to them, I had been doing all of the cooking and most of the cleaning in the house that I shared…

I love daytime sequins. I have a ridiculous sequined bra that I wear on days when I want to feel like a superhero but have to look like I'm a professional .

A few years ago Radiolab did a full hour on a story about a couple that had a very, very premature baby http://www.radiolab.org/story/288733-2… that has haunted me ever since I heard it. It's so hard to come to the realization that my window of biological baby-making may have closed, but risk to the child, feels too…

Those eyes are not cute. Like giant googly-eyes.

I have two thoughts here.

The peer-review here can be pretty brutal.

The ferry runs all night!

Jalapeño kumquat preserves sound amazing! Sorry to hear about your tree.

It really was. Sometimes when I'm out at night, staring at the moon, I think "there are people who walked up there and came back to tell us about it". Blows me away.

I think that's why I like it. My dad does this great face twitch right before he's going to deliver a punchline. I love it and he denies forever that's it's even happening.

I love his smirk right before he delivers that line. Obama can deliver a joke like a boss.

This is fantastic.

Can't argue with you on that one, but Kim Thayll was hot as fuck.

Congrats! Davis is great, though probably a big change from LA. If you like beer, check out the Davis Beer Shoppe next to the train station. Tons of beer in bottles and on tap.

I'm going to admit right here that I'm probably the only person in the world who's disappointed that this is a crab and not Cymotha. Those things are freaking amazing. I try to include them in lectures as often as I can.

Your name is perfect for this fun fact.

I am a photoshop idiot and even I thought this looked ridiculous.

I thought maybe it was a terrible picture of some tempeh gone wrong.