Outside the beltway looks at the phenomina. It happens, very commonly; you start a blog, and stop it b/c of reason x y and z. I will go on hiatus occassionally and have periods where I am very prolific. Just depends on my mood. I don't have the issues that big bloggers have, such as bad commentators (who are, more and more, making their way into the mainstream news via op/eds. Ie: a commentator at Ann Althouse said this horrible thing, and it's all Ann's fault...

Update: Speaking of Ann, she's on the road, going to some woman blogger conference in San Jose. But check out the cool picts! Here too.

She also has a strange post on rat behavioral genetics. I noted that many genetic mutants create really odd abnormalities, such as my mice with a malocclusion; their incisors didnt' close properly. It was due to a recombination of the osfx gene I think. Sadly it will never be followed up. One of those things about research getting buried; i was working on pulmonary fibrosis at the time, and dental processes has absolutely nothing to do with it. (it's buried in my thesis, though, although w/o pictures).