Recent content by davechen

A long-ass time ago. It had to have been before 95. I started at Carolina in 88 and left in 97, and it was probably mid way of my time there.

Oh man! That was a nail biter!

https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/trump-health-fears-white-house-36332644

I'm a government contractor and we've been told to stop all government work next week. Up til now we've been allowed to work since the contract was funded and we're pretty independent. But no more. I guess it was a bad look that most of the feds above us were furloughed but we kept working...

It's the Dave-pocolypse. My two alma maters, Cal (undergrad) and UNC (grad) meet in ACC football! Boy does that sounds weird.

Yeah, it's me. Like anyone would bother to try and pretend to be me. The funny thing about Bill at the high school game is that a friend of mine was there and posted about it. The rumor was going around that he'd show up.

Bill at a high school football game yesterday here in Maryland.

My wife works for the CDC. Well, she does for one more week, til her contract ends. She works in vaccine safety, and one of the people that resigned was her director. I guess the country doesn't care about vaccine safety anymore. I think she's relieved to be done with the chaos.

Happy New Superchunk Day! Their new album, 'Songs in the Key of Yikes' is out today.

I'd say his street is moderately busy, especially at rush hour. The cross street can get very busy.

Saw video of the FBI searching John Bolton's house and thought, hey, that looks familiar. Turns out he lives like a mile from me. So I got that going for me.

New Superchunk single, "Bruised Lung"

Excluding Social Security and Medicare? WIMPS! Burn it ALL DOWN!

A couple of my colleagues were supposed to attend a conference and present their research in a couple weeks, but that got canceled. And some others were supposed to travel to meet with their research collaborators. Nixed that too. Medical research, who needs it.

https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/22/trump-administrations-cancels-scientific-meetings-abruptly/