microscopy

Science shows up in all kinds of places you might not expect. Yay! Yes, I’m a scientist. Regular readers of this blog are used to hearing about just about everything but science in this space, so the surprise and dismay at my self-identification can, and will be, forgiven. Even if it has been displayed on the sidebar since I started this blogging thing back in January. This entry, shock horror, is a science blog. It even touches on some of the things I do for a living. Really. Though I don’t do the cop thing. At least, not yet.

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I was playing around with pictures this evening. Normally, I don't mess with pictures in my blogs because, frankly, I'm too lazy. But this night, for some reason, I decided I was tired of looking at the large expanses of plain green that made up the stock template at my Blogspot site. So I thought I'd fix that. And then I noticed that the images I was playing with were showing up on Bloggerparty's Popular Content sidebar. With my nonsense tag names and no explanations. I could understand if some of my blogging buddies clicked on these names and went, well, "What the ..."? So, here's the "What the ..." Which just happens to be my opportunity to tell you a little bit about what I actually do for a living. When I'm not writing about war, and peace, and purloined bicycles, and geriatric cats, that is.

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