It makes me very happy that the SAB has added a civil engineer, an archaeologist, and a physicist to its ranks during the last week.

I'd also like to reinforce NJSharon's and Chemgirl's assurances that the SAB is not an exclusive club.

I hope, however, that eventually a phrenologist will sign up, mainly because I have a knot on the back of my head that cannot be fully explained by the bad haircut I got last Saturday. An overzealous and admittedly hung-over 23 year old trimmed the hair on the back of my neck with an electric razor that (as she confessed, later) she had dropped on the floor the day before. So I kind of leapt out of the chair when the razor yanked the hair on the nape of my neck, taking a surprising amount of skin with it, and, I do faint when I see my own blood, so then ....

Wait a minute -- this is way too much information, isn't it?

I'll save the rest of this pointless little story for my memoirs.

Welcome on board, new SAB members. Because you're real scientists, you have voting rights.