View From the Bushes

There was an article in Nature recently which has gotten a fair amount of press (though I'm sure that the authors of the article were checking my site on a daily basis, wondering if they would get a mention here and thus complete the "grand slam" of news coverage). The article discusses a study which found that monkeys procrastinate too. Generally they wait until the last minute to accomplish something, but by turning off a key gene, the monkeys transformed from indolent slackers into hard-core workaholics. It's too bad that this sort of thing won't be legal to do to humans for probably decades, because I could really use this treatment, you know what I mean?

In other news, I have neglected to mention the Ennie awards, which are given out every year at GenCon. My good buddy Wil Upchurch, who's been nominated for the Dawnforge Setting asked me to mention the awards in my blog on the off chance that he might score one more vote. Of course, I just checked and I guess voting is closed (it was open this morning) so as usual, I'm too late.

I did something to my knee yesterday, so I may get my time in on the exercise bike at home rather than ride into work tomorrow -- I'm still trying to decide. As I've mentioned before, I could use the little bit of extra time that would give me. Plus, I still haven't been able to figure out just what exactly it is about biking which bothers my eyes so much, and until I can do that it's not just the time I lose biking into work, it's also the time I lose when I can't see straight because my eyes are bothering me so much.

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Ross