The One-Man Department of Photoshop Studies presents:

Maybe you've seen the posters around the department that are exceedingly clever in that they announce two things: the speaker for the upcoming colloquium, but much more importantly than that, the hipster status of the professor (prof. K. Shooze, that is. You can hear some of his finest work here.) who created them. I finally decided to make a poster that all the disciples of prof. K. Shooze can get behind. Here's to many more agonizingly awkward post-thesis-defenses, post-dissertation-proposals and post-dissertation-defenses spent across the street! Let's all do likewise: unbutton our collars, roll up our sleeves, and buy some (friends by buying some) niblets!

subcollections of subcollections

Those were the days.

why worry about animal testing?

Help me find the mistake(s) in my reasoning in this argument that we consumers shouldn't be worried about animal testing.

(1) A corporation would never sell something that
would be harmful to consumers. (premise)
(2) If a product isn't harmful to humans, then it's
not harmful to animals. (premise)
(3) We can consume only products that a corporation
makes available. (obvious)
(4) We cannot consume a product that is harmful
to animals. (1, 2, 3)
(conclusion) We consumers shouldn't be worried
about animal testing. (4)

good comments and bad comments

There can be comments made on a thesis draft that are helpful, insightful and show a depth of understand and willingness on the part of the reader.

Then there are comments that show a lack of insight of and unwillingness to engage (or read?) a thesis draft. (Focus almost exclusively on grammar and spelling mistakes is a dead giveaway!)

To those who gave some feedback that helped to write a better paper: Thanks very much. To those who didn't: I hope the time not used on reading my thesis was well spent.

at-home dairy products

I couldn't believe all the stuff that came from a gallon of whole, low-heat pasteurized, non-homogenized milk from the Kurtz and Sons Dairy (scroll down a bit after following the link) purchased at the Union Street Farmers' Market: butter, yogurt (maybe 1% milkfat -- returned to the milk containers) and young kajmak . The bounty of whole milk (kajmak in the foreground, butter and yogurt in the background) all for $7!