"Good work"

I've been at the Gordon Conference on Phosphorylation & G-Protein Mediated Signaling Networks all week. Although maybe only one of the ~six people who read this blog will have any idea what that title means, it is actually quite and important conference in my field. My advisor presented my data the other day and then I presented a poster on Monday and Tuesday. I had lots of people come by and talk to me about my results. In fact, I was talking for most of the two hours each day. I think that it was well received. This morning as I was walking back from breakfast a fairly well respected leader in G protein signaling, whom I have not met personally, walked by me and said, "Good work." I have to admit that this put a bit of spring in my step.

Mark Roberts on Hitchens

Mark Roberts is now posting a series of blog entries detailing errors, distortions and exaggerations from Christopher Hitchen's Book. I could think of additional arguments to some of the ones that he lists, which are based upon my faith and understanding of the gospel, but Roberts pretty well reveals Hitchens for what he is.