This is the archive of tumbledry happenings that occurred on 7 February, 2010.

John commenting on In Which Alex Says “And” A Lot

3 wks passes fast, trust me. And I’m sure you did more than well Alex. But don’t gruel over details, just get back to school and you’ll be pleasantly surprised with the outcome of life in general. :)

I checked out a blog I haven’t looked at in a while, and… dooce still has it. Here’s a paragraph from her letter to her daughter on the occasion of her daughter’s 6th birthday:

I remember the last exam I took in the last class I had in college and the feeling afterward being unlike anything I could describe, like I’d just been let out of a prison I had been in since I was five years old. Welcome to that prison. Only it’s worse! You have to take tests and earn good grades! At least in prison you can write on the walls and hit people!

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Keith Jarrett and neuroscience. Sympathetically innervated sweat glands are the exception when it comes to neurotransmitters — their transmitter is acetylcholine, but you would expect norepinephrine! Whoah!

It’s the Köln Concert.

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