Get A Haircut

Three of my favourite artists right now are M. Ward, My Morning Jacket, and Neko Case. So combining all those things together should be pretty awesome, right? Well, not so much. It’s OK I guess, but it seems like a bit of waste to put two incredible singers (Jim James and Neko Case) up there and have them just lay low.



My theory is that bands playing one-offs like Letterman or Conan should just play the most rocking song they have, regardless of what their current single or most popular song is. Also, I don’t know what to do now that Jim James has short hair. How will I know when to rock? For reference, this is what he used to look like:

What's that? New Wilco Record?

Watching A Stretch of Road

I got JB to take a picture of me the other day to show off my new glasses, and I thought it would be fun, or at least interesting, to re-create a photo of me taken when I first arrived in the lab. Before:



And after!



I guess I've mostly just become bigger and better-lit.

Meaningless to Almost Everyone In The World

One of the funny things about research is that it’s often really hard to relate to people when you get results. Especially when those results take the form of faint patches of light against a dark background. But for now, I’ll just say that this picture makes me very happy:

Time Flies When It's Someone Else's Son

Four years ago today: