Honestly, I don’t how it happened. Some crazy little demon must have crawled inside the authors of this fine blog. First, Ψ*Ψ thought that it was a good idea when I asked her about joining. Normally people around me would think 2n times before making me an unannounced designated driver[1]. Given that she let me drive her car, the one that made it safely across the country, she was probably under influence. What happened to Excimer, who agreed with her in the morning, is more of a mystery to me.

  See, I’m an awful writer. I had C in literature in high school, because I didn’t bother to learn this skill of digging deep into another dead’s writer mind through his writings to figure out what he wanted to say. Then, throughout college, it has never been emphasized how important is it to be able deliver your thoughts, be it for a scienctific article or to a layman. I’m not mentioning “funding committees”, because money in Russia kind of appear out of nowhere. So I gave LiquidCarbon a try, and have had lots of fun. By the time I got in to grad school it stalled, because it takes me prohibitively long to write something coherent. At this point I’d like to thank Prof. Dr. Ms. Awesome Ekaterina Kadnikova of UMKC, who taught me, among many other things, all the functional English I know. I’ll try to make her proud. Clearly, however, my writing will never be as good as, say, that of Derek Lowe. In case you don’t know, he’s our Founding Father of sorts, who has been writing about chemistry since 2002 (at least), when the three of us were still in high school. But what can I do? On attempt of oral delivery of a rare thought that seems worth sharing and requires multiple sentences, I have trouble making sense. Unless I’m high, then the words just flow. Except nobody understands me anyway, ’cause I’m high. Besides, the folks around me don’t really like to talk about science outside of the lab. Ergo, I blog. Again. BTW, please feel free to unleash your grammar hounds on me.

  My RL[2] name is Alex, I’m a second year grad student at the Scripps Research Institute, down in sunlit La Jolla[3]. I’d like to delay a full disclosure until later, when I’m done with our unofficial group website (I’m not happy with the official one). Apparently, I have to please those desolate ones who use IE 6, and I can’t figure out what it wants from my CSS. Anyway, given the available information, an inquisitive reader can figure out who I am.[4] You’ll find more info on my profile page, I’m slowly filling it out.

  Happy birthday, CBC! Now, being a part of it, I demand cake, too! The actual content is coming shortly.

[1] n is an integer, ln(n)<0.
[2] I like to think I have one, though I often doubt it.
[3] That explains the TSRI being #1 visitor of TotSyn.
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