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"Look at all those proteins and fucking subunits all joining up and shit. Fuck. You know what else does that? FUCKING VOLTRON!"

ZOMG! SCIENCE!. Some science-lovin' graphic designer's pet project, and awesome in the extreme. Obviously, lots of profanity.

Oh, thanks! Bastards.

Storm has this persistent, nasty cough. It's the same one she gets every winter, only this winter it seems to be nastier than usual, and is keeping her (and us) up at night. We've tried dextromethorphan and the humidifier. Menthol drops seems to work well, but we ran out last night, so that's on my to-shop list for the day.

Google is no help. The spammers are winning and right now Google's first few pages are tragic. I tried a few other search engines (Blekko, DuckDuckGo, Bing), but they weren't so helpful either.

One of the first-page entries for "persistent dry cough," though, starts out with this list: (1) Tuberculosis, (2) Pneumonia, (3) Lung Cancer. Then it ends with a "ha, ha, just kidding, it's probably a cold or allergic post-nasal drip."

Bastard. And I have to ask, how many people are gonna go reading below the fold? And the "just kidding" part is in a smaller, serif font, different from the body of the article.

Girls get all the pretty clothes...

I stopped by the dance studio today to tell them that Storm wasn't going to be attending her weekly dance class. The receptionist was on the phone, so while I sat and waited for her to finish her conversation I picked up a copy of the Dance 2011 catalog from one of the bigger dance costume companies. Dance costumes must be a big business, because this was a huge 202 page glossy 10x17 heavy-weight paper perfect-bind magazine, the expensive kind usually reserved for high-end fashion.

It took me a while to find the "guys" section. It was all the way in the back. Out of 206 pages, there were 4 pages of acessories, 199 pages of girl's clothes, and 3 pages of men's clothes.

Three pages? That's it? Women get hundreds and hundreds of variations, costumes, character types, and so forth, and men get... three pages of multi-colored tights in two patterns, along with three different cuts of vest with color options for sequins.

Jeez, no wonder guys don't want to go into dance. The industry's not interested in them, either.