- Harvard just paid $500M to get out of an interest rate swap. I wonder how Caltech's parking structure CEFA bond swaps are doing. #
- Pi Time! #
- Starting to write up the chapter on geographic superposition networks. Should have lots of pretty plots. #
- Lazy lazy lazy lazy lazy lazy Zane, he wants a drink of coffee, so he waits and waits and waits and waits and waits for it to rain. #
- Am I really going to be done in a month? The idea seems almost surreal. #
- I'll probably never really get used to snow. That's okay though. It's more fun for it always to seem like magic. #
- Sometimes de-bugging seems to turn into re-bugging. #
- Sliding forward in time, I'm phase shifted by pi. #
- The lights and the computer and I (~350W total) can keep this basement room plenty warm, just about until it starts snowing outside. #
- somehow I imagine that getting old, mentally, will feel a lot like staying up for too long. #
- I'm going to reward myself for all this hard work by getting the mail and going to the bathroom. Ahh, luxury. #
- 21 hrs up, 2 hrs down, 4 hrs up, 6 hrs down. Six lousy hours? That's all I can muster? Are you kidding?!? #
- Texas emits more CO2 than all of sub-Saharan Africa combined. #
- Apparently in Denmark "going postal" has a slightly different meaning… http://bit.ly/293rNM #
- You're not wrong Walter, you're just an asshole. #
- Running lineament statistics. Making coffee. Wearing a silly hat. Wishing my redheaded niece a happy birthday. #
- Holy crap, I made something that actually looks Gaussian. Best. Distribution. Evar. #
- OMFG, I have conclusive support of NSR from the GSNs. #
- Colorado Bohemian Foundation http://bit.ly/3oLQhr is matching donations to the Central Asia Institute http://bit.ly/2BWwdM up to $500k #
- Being emotionally bound to the outcome of a research problem is much simpler than being attached to people. It's also really lame. #
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:
