- Geological superposition networks (GSNs) appear to support steady-state lineament formation, activity, visibility, quiescence, and erasure. #
- The Sleeper has awoken. #
- New Surgeon General's Warning: sleep deprivation/use of hallucinagens while mapping fuzzy pictures of squiggly lines may degrade accuracy. #
- Is it easier to just be yourself all the time, or is it just a different kind of difficult? #
- Is it just me, or does all innovation happen in the shower, on a bike ride, or while talking to somebody else? #
- We want railroads and fiber, not tulips and exurbs. #
- Eight hours was, as it turns out, a grotesque underestimate. #
- OMG, now we're really in the future. Magnetic monopoles have been found, in spin ice. (don't worry, it barely makes any sense to me either) #
- Again with the thinking in the shower. Maybe I should bathe more often… #
- I cannot stop the thumping trance. I kill-dash-nined iTunes 15 minutes ago, and it's still playing. Guess the lappy just wants to dance! #
- Coding seems downright recreational compared to mapping. #
- not even 10am, and all my errands are done… #
- Had an eye exam. Lens price mysteriously increased by $100. Mail order without insurance is cheaper than Target with it. Lame. #
- Somebody's banging on a djembe upstairs. #
- How am I already getting up at 4pm again? #
- It makes me sad how closed the world's borders are. #
- Definitely missing my ergonomic chair. #
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:
