- Do you think bicyclists should be represented on CA Traffic Control Devices Committee? Tell Devinder.Singh@dot.ca.gov http://bit.ly/rairw #
- T-60 days and counting. (The T is for Thesis) #
- New Belgium's Tour de Fat almost makes me wish I had a car, just so I could trade it in for a bike, faith-healer style: http://bit.ly/2Ypkl #
- nodding off. must. brush. teeth…. #
- It's funny to realize that despite having been to someone's house dozens of times, over years, you have no idea what their address is. #
- Just reported four people for running their lawn sprinklers in the heat of the day. Does that make me a prick? http://bit.ly/1w4mel #
- Got my Hunter S. Thompson Freak Power! shirt. I can't believe he was almost the Sheriff of Aspen. http://bit.ly/TbCDx #
- I would surrender, if only it would make the endlessly circling police helicopters go away. But they don't want me. (yet) #
- There are only so many lucid hours in the day. They begin now. #
- Who would have thought Caltrans could be so personable and responsive? http://bit.ly/g9fD1 #
- Have had to restore information from backups twice today. Thank goodness for SVN and Time Machine. #
- Surprisingly satisfying to start putting words and figures into a file called Thesis.ltx #
- Went to bed at midnight, still didn't wake up until 10:30am. What's wrong with me? #
- Stay out of Malibu, Lebowski! Point Dume State Beach may be slated for closure, under pressure from the rich & famous. http://bit.ly/1sBk6y #
- Vastly more people have played The Oregon Trail than ever emigrated via the Oregon Trail. What a fascinating modern age it is we live in. #
- Thank you California for legalizing sensible graywater systems. Now that wasn't so painful really, was it? http://bit.ly/32n8aB #
- I feel silly (and good) for missing @michelleselvans after only 4 days. #
- Time to hitch up the trailer and go foraging. #
- Tonight it was berry season: blue, black and rasp. Pounds of them. Plus eggs (of course), grapes, chicken salad, apples and a bit o cheese #
- might be as much a non-theist Quaker as a freegan. Definitions-wise anyway. Community participation obviously makes a difference though. #
- Honestly, the way grad students act and feel about never having been doing enough work is downright Catholic. #
- I am a digital pack rat, but I think my grandkids and the family AI will probably appreciate it: http://bit.ly/MDYi8 #
Twitterfeed
- Heading out to do some grocery shopping on this glorious day that doesn't feel like February. 1 week ago
- Gonna bike down to Superior… to get my teeth cleaned. 1 week ago
- Listened to This American Life's Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory after buying a new computer. Orwell/Gibson weird. http://t.co/MElu4BQZ 1 week ago
- I seem to have gotten myself a new computer for my birthday. I'll have a 13" MBP+24" Apple display for sale here soon… $1200 w/ 6mo warranty 1 week ago
- I'm older than I've ever been, and now I'm even older. And now I'm even older. And now I'm even older. 1 week ago
Linkstream
- Teaching Good Sex:
A Quaker prep school in Pennsylvania has a novel approach to sex education: it's co-ed, respectful of the students, and sex-positive. The full semester of curriculum almost makes you think that the school wants the kids to have good sex -- safe, emotionally fulfilling, and pleasurable -- when they're ready, and no sooner. What an idea. I knew I liked something about the Society of Friends.... - Fox on grad students in climate science:
An open letter to Donna Laframboise, who's just written a book entitled "The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World's Top Climate Expert," about how mere graduate students have given input to and even played leadership roles within the UN's IPCC process. Shock. Horror.... - To: Professors; Re: Your Advisees:
To: Professors; Re: Your Advisees. So many PhD advisors are so bad at academic and career advising, that there's now a cash market for consultants who will do their job for them. Paid by graduate students of course.... - Area Woman Excited To Finally Experience Unbearable Loneliness Of Having Her Own Place:
Area Woman Excited To Finally Experience Unbearable Loneliness Of Having Her Own Place. This is, thankfully, not a problem we have here at Masala.... - The U.S. Postal Service Nears Collapse:
BusinessWeek on the End of Mail. Honestly, I can't wait for the USPS to collapse. It's a garbage delivery service as far as I can tell, and it sounds like virtually all of their plans for pulling out of the dive are related to serving that industry better. FedEx and UPS kill them on parcels, and real, personal mail is so rare these days I don't think I'd even notice if it vanished.... - Scientific Process Rage:
Scientific Process Rage. Science doesn't work like in the movies. In reality, there's a lot more cursing and crying.... - The PhD factory:
Nature notes that the world is producing more PHDs than ever before. And asks it time to stop? Graduate education isn't like a pyramid scheme, it is a pyramid scheme. And like all such schemes, it will eventually end in ruin for most of the participants. Something has to change. Why not sooner, and pro-actively, rather than later and in shambles?... - Tarsnap - Online backups for the paranoid:
Tarsnap looks like a good offsite backup option, if you're afraid of snoops and spooks and gagged subpoenas, but not of the Unix command line. Spideroak looks like a more user friendly application with the same zero-knowledge ethic.... - Ecstasy does not wreck the mind:
A Harvard Medical School study designed to address the shortcomings of earlier research was unable to detect any long term negative effects in MDMA users. The main difference in the new study was that both the control and user populations were all-night ravers -- some straightedge, and some not, and the ones using, using only MDMA. The results suggest that previous studies were observing the negative effects of all-night dancing, dehydration and sleep deprivation... not MDMA! Full article hid... - Yahoo! is De-rezzing:
Where does the data go when the host dies? Yahoo is coming apart at the seams, and they're taking the social bookmarking site Delicious with them. I use this service to generate the linkstream in my sidebar here. Thankfully, I've had WordPress importing all that content weekly for a long time, so I'm not in danger of losing any information. I just have to deal with the pain in the ass of figuring out a new way to implement this functionality. If you care about information you must be constan...
- Teaching Good Sex:
