my time at UCI has not been wasted

because my connection with it has caused darcydodo to be jealous of me, since the following (apparently true) story happened here:

My Morning: A Play in One Uncomfortable Act

I don't normally think of UC Irvine as having any characteristics that would make someone at UC Berkeley jealous of my affiliation. Certainly if someone were to ask me which of the two was a more likely setting for a tale such as this, Berkeley would win hands down.

This just goes to show that I am sometimes amusingly wrong.

Corwin Thanksgiving pictures

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~jmadden/corwin/

Also an addendum to Halloween, since we had more outfits to put him in. :)

The next series of pictures should look considerably better than many of these; we finally were able to replace our digital camera that crapped out about two months ago. (Short version: don't buy cameras from OfficeMax. If for some reason you do, don't buy their replacement policy: that two month gap was caused by their incompetence and sluggishness, and at the end of it you get a gift card for a shop that you no longer wish to patronize.) The new camera is quite spiffy, though: a Canon PowerShot A620, thanks for asking. (If anyone actually cares why we picked this one, ask.)