var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-5564499-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); Hi, I’m Heather and this is my brainspace.Tumblr (3.0; @andoceans)http://andoceans.tumblr.com/<img src="http://14.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuhc6sl4On1qzo4eko1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Science themed cookies!</p>http://andoceans.tumblr.com/post/278729717http://andoceans.tumblr.com/post/278729717Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:42:20 -0500“Then, as debates over global warming often do, the discussion dissolved into incomprehensible shouting.”<br/><br/> - <em>Tom Zeller, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/science/earth/10skeptics.html">NYT</a></em>http://andoceans.tumblr.com/post/278728309http://andoceans.tumblr.com/post/278728309Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:40:28 -0500<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://andoceans.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/278178228/tumblr_ku833fMNG11qzo4ek&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"></embed><br/><br/><p>Bardic “All Song is Sung”</p> <p>excellent music for dreary weather..</p>http://andoceans.tumblr.com/post/278178228http://andoceans.tumblr.com/post/278178228Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:42:05 -0500<a href="http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/unusualjobs/index.html">McSweeney's Interviews with people who have interesting or unusual jobs</a>: <p>My favorites: <a href="http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/unusualjobs/26makingsnow.html">Snow-maker</a>, <a href="http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/unusualjobs/haapanen.html">UFO investigator</a></p>http://andoceans.tumblr.com/post/276758719http://andoceans.tumblr.com/post/276758719Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:30:11 -0500<img src="http://20.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kub55gKS5G1qzo4eko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Nearly finished apartment building falls down in Shanghai, China. Interesting explanation in link.</p>http://andoceans.tumblr.com/post/275293734http://andoceans.tumblr.com/post/275293734Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:26:20 -0500<img src="http://4.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ku82fjbD8B1qzo4eko1_400.gif"/><br/><br/><p>Wondermark by David Malki, out of context (click to read full)</p>http://andoceans.tumblr.com/post/273828161http://andoceans.tumblr.com/post/273828161Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:22:57 -0500<a href="http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=3426">The Life, Death, and Life After Death of Henrietta Lacks</a>: <p>Also an insight into modern medical science</p>http://andoceans.tumblr.com/post/271497548http://andoceans.tumblr.com/post/271497548Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:31:26 -0500<p>Closing some tabs, Queued up a bunch of random stuff to autopost next couple of days</p>http://andoceans.tumblr.com/post/271496118http://andoceans.tumblr.com/post/271496118Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:29:50 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9LfpA-I8N5I&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9LfpA-I8N5I&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Owl City “Fireflies” with lyrics</p>http://andoceans.tumblr.com/post/248991591http://andoceans.tumblr.com/post/248991591Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:44:43 -0500“I mean, if your mailman stopped coming for six years, and then a new dude showed up and was equally reliable and nice, would you not take his mail because he’s not the same dude? Of course not! So why should it be that much different when it comes to pop?”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://buzzworthy.mtv.com/2009/11/06/do-owl-city-sound-too-much-like-the-postal-service-do-we-care-if-they-do/">Do Owl City Sound Too Much Like The Postal Service? Do We Care If They Do?</a></em>http://andoceans.tumblr.com/post/248977645http://andoceans.tumblr.com/post/248977645Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:31:21 -0500<img src="http://19.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_krwomeQFEf1qzo4eko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“<i>Some days my heart still feels like an abandoned lot — Vacant, disused, full of weeds. Once-loved little relics strewn around; overgrown, but not entirely missing. Still there to trip you if you’re not careful.</i>”</p> <p>art by Niki Foley</p> <p>Definitely captures a certain feeling..</p>http://andoceans.tumblr.com/post/219814566http://andoceans.tumblr.com/post/219814566Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:54:13 -0400“Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it”<br/><br/> - <em>Salvador Dali</em>http://andoceans.tumblr.com/post/214200380http://andoceans.tumblr.com/post/214200380Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:21:29 -0400<img src="http://13.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_krj872452n1qzo4eko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://andoceans.tumblr.com/post/213340175http://andoceans.tumblr.com/post/213340175Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:30:37 -0400<img src="http://11.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_krj85yBEEh1qzo4eko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Koi shaped ice cubes!</p>http://andoceans.tumblr.com/post/213339638http://andoceans.tumblr.com/post/213339638Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:29:57 -0400“I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://atheism.about.com/library/quotes/bl_q_CSagan.htm">Carl Sagan</a></em>http://andoceans.tumblr.com/post/205573782http://andoceans.tumblr.com/post/205573782Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:08:56 -0400<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://andoceans.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/204605475/tumblr_kr0lxmvVBo1qzo4ek&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"></embed><br/><br/><p>Muse “Undisclosed Desires”</p> <p>Great Bass on this song =)</p>http://andoceans.tumblr.com/post/204605475http://andoceans.tumblr.com/post/204605475Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:12:58 -0400<img src="http://2.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kqyxgzQLw01qzo4eko1_500.gif"/><br/><br/>http://andoceans.tumblr.com/post/203833555http://andoceans.tumblr.com/post/203833555Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:26:58 -0400“<i>It didn’t last, of course. You can’t feel grateful to be alive your whole life any more than you can stay passionately in love forever — or grieve forever, for that matter. Time forces us all to betray ourselves and get back to the busywork of living in the world.</i>”<br/><br/> - <em>Tim Kreider ‘<a href="http://happydays.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/02/reprieve/">The Reprieve</a>’ (<a href="http://qwantz.livejournal.com/110042.html">via</a>)</em>http://andoceans.tumblr.com/post/203831723http://andoceans.tumblr.com/post/203831723Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:24:22 -0400<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XrROiUNwgCM&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XrROiUNwgCM&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Muse ‘Bliss’<a href="about://blank"><br/></a></p>http://andoceans.tumblr.com/post/199785339http://andoceans.tumblr.com/post/199785339Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:20 -0400“Galileo wouldn’t be tortured today (no Bush jokes please). But he would be serving blended coffee drinks to harried businessmen, having failed to achieve even pre-tenure status on a blank publication record.”<br/><br/> - <em><i>Anonymous Scientist</i></em>http://andoceans.tumblr.com/post/191656329http://andoceans.tumblr.com/post/191656329Sat, 19 Sep 2009 05:51:04 -0400