September 2009
23 posts
I am getting really fed up with my dissertation...
A sampling of the small-minded criticisms my work of genius has so far received:
“Reagan, you can’t start in medias res like this is an epic poem”
“Why is Chapter 5 written in heroic couplet?”
“In order to make Chapter 2 fit a blank verse scheme you had to make some very odd word choices. “Forsooth” is not a word commonly used in scientific...
milkglassmao:
One of the many reasons why I love...
“Paramilitary squads now operating openly in the United States. Keep in mind that...”
– Men who are not police force a protester into a car and drive off in Pittsburgh (via azspot)
The video here is choppy but disturbing - three camouflaged guys wrestle the guy in the car and then speed off. The update to the post suggests that these guys may be part of the PA National Guard, but I...
Gadget Lab Hardware News and Reviews Microchip in... →
Shawn Kelly, quoted in this article is my uncle, a researcher at MIT. I’ve been hearing about this project for years, and it’s really exciting to see it picked up by the national news and to see it this close to making a real difference!
Graduate school by the numbers
I’ve been pretty quiet on here and on twitter, because I’m within 3 weeks of defending my PhD dissertation.
It’s taken me 6 1/2 years, longer than most people, but I’ll be finished before I’m, 30, which was a long-standing goal (technically I’ll be 30 by the time the degree is officially conferred at the end of the semester, but I’ll be finished...
My beloved Logitech MX Revolution
has finally given up the ghost. No amount of smacking and pushing will make it charge. I’ve had it for ~3 years, and the only thing I’m willing to replace it with is another MX Revolution. It’s not that it’s perfect (it isn’t), but all of the new mice Logitech has put out since have been a step down from this one. C’mon, Amazon, I can’t spend very long...
Gather 'round children, it's high time ye learned...
shoesonwrong:
So we’ll march day and night by the big cooling tower They have the plant but we have the power
Play “Classical Gas”!
So I was taking a look at a new tumblr
“My neighbor is a Sex Offender”, and so I just sort of wondered who were the sex offenders in my zip code. I took a look, and the site lists known aliases for the offenders. My favorite by far, though, was “Cain Rapely”.
Youth minister accused of having sex with teen boy
funsizebytes:
An affidavit for a search warrant states that Brennan began holding and kissing the boy during counseling sessions, and the acts later escalated to sodomy and sexual intercourse.
Sounds like what happened here is she asked him if he wanted to fuck her in the ass, and he said yes.
I realize it’s probably the technically correct term, but I always subliminally equate “sodomy”...
Harvard Crimson Publishes Holocaust Denial Ad >... →
Here’s a quote:
Bradley Smith, the founder of the organization that placed the ad, is a known Holocaust denier who has been identified for his hiding behind the veil of free speech in America.
Hm. So, I guess I should preface this by stating unequivocally how reprehensible I think Holocaust denial is and how ignorant I think any believer in it must be.
So, that being said,...
I hate when you're driving around in your car and...
steelopus:
It’s such a disappointment.
That sounds line a good reason to never tune the radio away from BER in the first place :)
(Unless, of course, the DJ doesn’t show up and there’s no fill in besides DJ Dead Air…)
“The biggest myth about drugs is that it’s a very individual thing. It’s not....”
– Craig Finn (via cleversimon)
I think this is right, except sleeping past noon is cool.
So the Magnetic Zeros are on Letterman right now
and it’s a massive hipster bonanza.
Lead singer with scruffy beard and long hair worn very strangely. CHECK
Band member wearing a western bib shirt with yellow bowtie. CHECK
Chick playing the accordion. CHECK
Wow. Just wow.
My fortune cookie was empty!
redcloud:
Does this mean I’m going to die soon?
I think thats actually supposed to be good luck. Or maybe thats when the fortune is blank, not missing.
Really I think it means that the overseer in the chinese factory stopped whipping momentarily and so the 12 year-old making it took a long breath and missed that cookie.
Johnny Cash - San Quentin
Inspired by...
