And another thing:

I really should have added this to my blogroll a while ago:

The Dilbert Blog

In my opinion, Scott Adams is a darn fine intellectual, and a lot smarter than his (admittedly, pretty darn good) comic strip would seem to imply. I haven’t been reading his blog regularly, myself – though I heard about it from no less than Glenn Reynolds, and my good friend James reads it regularly – but, you know what they say:

Do as I say, not as I do.

MYSTERY SOLVED!

This is amusing.

From CNN.com

LONDON, England -- It's a question that has baffled scientists, academics and pub bores through the ages: What came first, the chicken or the egg?

Now a team made up of a geneticist, philosopher and chicken farmer claim to have found an answer. It was the egg.

Put simply, the reason is down to the fact that genetic material does not change during an animal's life.

Therefore the first bird that evolved into what we would call a chicken, probably in prehistoric times, must have first existed as an embryo inside an egg.

Professor John Brookfield, a specialist in evolutionary genetics at the University of Nottingham, told the UK Press Association the pecking order was clear.

The living organism inside the eggshell would have had the same DNA as the chicken it would develop into, he said.

"Therefore, the first living thing which we could say unequivocally was a member of the species would be this first egg," he added. "So, I would conclude that the egg came first."

The same conclusion was reached by his fellow "eggsperts" Professor David Papineau, of King's College London, and poultry farmer Charles Bourns.

Mr Papineau, an expert in the philosophy of science, agreed that the first chicken came from an egg and that proves there were chicken eggs before chickens.

He told PA people were mistaken if they argued that the mutant egg belonged to the "non-chicken" bird parents. "I would argue it is a chicken egg if it has a chicken in it," he said.

"If a kangaroo laid an egg from which an ostrich hatched, that would surely be an ostrich egg, not a kangaroo egg."

Bourns, chairman of trade body Great British Chicken, said he was also firmly in the pro-egg camp.

He said: "Eggs were around long before the first chicken arrived. Of course, they may not have been chicken eggs as we see them today, but they were eggs."

Personally, I feel just a little bit of perverse pride in a philosopher’s involvement: this is exactly the useless crap that we excel in. As a side note, while I couldn’t exactly say where, I am reasonably certain that I’ve come across Papineau’s name before. And I would bet a reasonable amount of money that my former dissertation director, Michael Ruse, probably knows him.

Just thought I would pass this along.

Even James is in on the action....

Please note the newest addition to my Blogroll:

Library Bound - the as of yet unutilized blog of my good friend James.

Drop by and show him the linky love!

Dark chocolate covered espresso-roast coffee beans and other nice things...

So.

My girlfriend and I went on a date.

To a grocery store.

Seriously, we were there for an hour, and all I bought was something like 5 items. Including the titular dark-chocolate-covered espresso-roast coffee beans. I also bought gelato.

You guys should really check out The Fresh Market.

I also bought some dark chocolate. It's cool having a former nutrition major explaining food labels to you. Remember, ladies and gentlemen: dark chocolate is GOOD for you.

Did I mention they sell gelato there? I've been looking for gelato for weeks.

David, who hasn't posted on his blog is graduating this Saturday. From Law School. I STILL DON'T HAVE MY FRIGGIN' PH.D!!!!

I'm trying to convince the girlfriend to let me have pictures of her. I'm sure you're all dying for proof that I actually do have one. I have, what, 2 readers of this thing?

Yeah, I need to get on the ball.

Ok, I'm at work. I should like, be at work or something....