- The blindering continues: unfollowing all non-personal Twitter contacts until 2010, after my PhD is done. #
- I know, this shouldn't seem strange, but I'm actually looking forward to going to AGU. #
- Petitioning CU for my fall registration (email has been in my inbox since… May 4th) and writing my AGU abstract. #
- I'm not completely trustworthy. The weird thing is, I feel compelled to tell people that up front. Sometimes. #
- I wish it was really possible for headphones to do bass well. #
- 1 liter smoothie + 1 liter tea = too much liquid for breakfast. Solution? Make smoothie w/ iced tea instead of juice! Fruity stimulation. #
- Somehow having 1000+ unread RSS feed items makes it so much easier to just ignore them all. #
- both disgusted by and enamored with homemade baconfat tostada shells. #
- we will change the world, whether we want to or not. #
- Did I just find that bug, or create it? Bedtime. #
- Looking forward to our crazy landlady's first visit in years tomorrow! Not. #
- wrote a script to chain together all my accumulated analysis so far… letting it slog through the morning. Now sleep, and await the heat. #
- You have done well my silicon minions. You do not know fear! You do not know pain! You will taste manflesh! #
- Landlady was contacted by insurance co. (not City). Has less idea what's going on than we do. This one, maybe I fix. #
- Michelle has actually aged since we met. It's comforting and disturbing at the same time. #
- Wrote a thesis todo list. I'm sure it's incomplete, but I'm going to have a pint of cider anyway. #
- vote for bike trails and directions in Google Maps! http://bit.ly/1FWgoL #
- It almost looks like Brown Mountain has turned into a volcano. #
- It almost looks like Brown Mountain has turned into a volcano: http://bit.ly/ULqY2 #
- good overview of bicycle health and safety statistics (helmets, accidents, obesity, etc): http://bit.ly/3duRn3 #
- I hope it's possible for poor employees to be good business owners. #
- I made fresh pesto from the garden. Eating some with polenta that I cooked in my big insulated french press. #
- Economists talk about the price of anarchy. I think what Popper is talking about is the price of order. Efficiency instead of resilience. #
- Thyrsus is definitely my new favorite word: http://bit.ly/16V1fA #
- I may just have to ship my laptop out to Colorado separately, to avoid the possibility of any digital body cavity searches by the TSA. #
- maxing out both cores, all 4GB of memory in use, and I have the gall to be annoyed that my music is skipping. #
- I can't believe I've been sitting here for 13 hours. #
- Feeling strangely fascinated by the prospect of friending all my cousins in Fresno on FB. #
- going to go eat dinner on the roof and watch Mount Wilson burn. #
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
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- 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:
