Last month, the person that I will forever think of as erin-dot-erin did an exercise of following a day by taking a picture each hour. I thought this was a darn good idea and thought it might be fun to cover a day in the life of Stevil. Erin did hers for 10 on 10…
It’s not often that you can put your entire day’s schedule on your clothes, but my shirt today sums it up pretty well. Happy Sunday!
When I moved to San Diego from Northern Illinois, the great weather here almost compelled me to start doing things outside. One of the things that I started doing was playing tennis. I had played a little when I was in high school and college, though during college and grad school I played a lot…
During the last week of December 2000, I stood watching the sunset on the cliffs of Torrey Pines State Park and wondered about a few things: what I was getting myself into? How could I be standing somewhere in December in a t-shirt? Should I get one of those new cell phone things? That week,…
When you’re a scientist, you spend a lot taking things apart – isn’t one of everyone’s first experiments the dissection of a frog? Of course, the reason you’re taking things apart is because you’re trying to figure out what makes them tick. Enter the engineers. Engineers, rather than take things apart, start putting them together…
So, as there’s no new LOST episode tonight, I’d thought I’d muse on one of the major themes of this – and I suppose every – season. Choices and their consequences. Some Spoilers Below In this season, instead of flash-forwards or flash-backs, we’ve been watching the castaways in a separate “sideways” reality in which Flight…
I’m a scientist. I believe in rational observation, deductive reasoning and cause & effect. So yesterday around lunchtime I was baffled by twinge in my left knee. It ached and was a little painful to contract or extend completely. That was weird, I thought. I hadn’t banged it, nor had I carried anything heavier than…
It was a sad day at The Aerie Tuesday as we made the choice to put our wonderful old dog Eutaw to sleep. Over the last few weeks, she’d developed a very aggressive tumor in her mouth and jaw that quickly outpaced our ability to remedy it. A small blessing was that she was in…
"What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!" Hamlet, (Act II, Sc. II). Throughout my time as a scientist,…
So, on a September’s day twenty-nine years ago, I was sitting in my first week of high school religion class. Father Hesson was performing his own Inquisistion – testing us trembling frosh in Prayers We Ought to Know — and I’m not talking “Our Father” and “Hail Mary”, I’m talking “Act of Contrition” and “Apostle’s…
Stevil 