Obligatory post, lest I get angry comments telling me I'm not posting enough.

Some of you may enjoy this video of Segway Polo. There's some nice wipeouts.

I picked my car up from the Toyota place today, and everything's back to normal in that department. I think my lab computer's due to ship tomorrow, and hopefully I'll get it next week.

The new first-year graduate students (and medical students, and physician's assistants in training, etc.) are here this week for orientation. On the first day, they take a headshot of every one of the graduate students and then print up a pictoral roster so that you may identify your classmates. However, this is only distributed to the first-years, and perhaps some of the administrators and professors. I need a chance to look it over to see what's going on in terms of the ladies, and preferrably soon, but I'm trying to avoid looking (being?) desperate. Here are my options:

* Wait for our administrator, Wanda, to get her copy framed and posted on the wall in her office
* Hope one of the new students rotate in our lab and then ask them to see the roster. This apparently happened to Graham last year, and may even be a time-honored tradition. Graham requested that if I did this that I scan it and send him a copy
* Corner a first-year in a dark alley and mug them for their copy

It'd be nice to have access to this before we (I assume) have our annual back-to-school night of free beer at Valhalla, the Rice graduate student pub.

Kennedy, a girl that Graham has been seeing, has decided that she wants to set me up with a friend of hers (Fiona?). Graham has never met this girl, Kennedy has seen me exactly three times, and she and I have had zero substantial conversations. Frankly, I'm a bit scared. I hadn't been planning on looking super-sexy tomorrow, either, but I guess that doesn't take a whole lot of extra effort.

It occurred to me that my camera phone should be playing a bigger role in providing blogging content. I'll try to get on that.