Overheard #1 I'm too busy to post real stuff for a while. So posting will consist of some quick hits and thoughts pounded out while my centrifuges spin down. Here's the first in my "overheard" series, theme stolen shamelessly from pseudo-co-blogger Capital Influx. There are really an endless store of these to blog... Overheard in a facility full of semi-autistic individuals at a nameless American University:

Speaker 1: I'm not sure whether it's worth going to this party tomorrow. Speaker 2: Well did you get the parameter? Speaker 1: What parameter? Speaker 2: Has your education not taught you to give a figure of merit whenever describing an event? Ideally, a single parameter that (as far as is possible) sums up the quality of the outing? In this case: the sausage/salmon ratio... which I fear comes arbitrarily close to 1...

Editorial aside: The unkempt aspect and horrific visage of the second individual involved made these casually macho remarks an event of gut-busting hilarity...it was clear that he was no David Webb...