One of the nice things about being a parent is getting to introduce SteelyKid to my own obsessions. Like, for example, the great game of basketball: “You want me to throw this how high?” Maybe we’ll stick with something a little smaller for now: (Hey to Todd Clark, who gave us the toy hoop…)
Month: August 2009
Historical Physicist Smackdown: Minor Quantum Edition
SteelyKid’s day care is closed today, meaning that I will be spending the day chasing her in circles in a variety of different places. this doesn’t allow a lot of blogging time, so you get a poll to pass the time. We’ll go back to the historical physics thing for this one. The following poll… Continue reading Historical Physicist Smackdown: Minor Quantum Edition
Links for 2009-08-31
LOLSaints | Saints with a Smile Even religious iconography can be improved by strategic misspelled text. (tags: religion blogs culture silly pictures art history) Making Light: Flash of insight: swift, blinding, pointless “Saints were the Pokémon of the Middle Ages.” (tags: history culture art religion television games kid-stuff silly making-light) Flickr Photo Download: Mythical Creatures… Continue reading Links for 2009-08-31
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest [Library of Babel]
I finished re-reading Infinite Jest this week. I’m a few weeks ahead of the Infinite Summer crowd, which is a little frustrating, because I really want to see what they say about the later bits, but they won’t get there for a while yet. Anyway, this is a tough book to summarize, because it’s both… Continue reading David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest [Library of Babel]
55 Weeks in 120 Seconds
Here’s some cute to get your Sunday off to a good start: the first 55 weeks of Thursday Baby Blogging pictures strung together into a movie showing the growth of SteelyKid: (Thursday of week 20 was Christmas Day, and there are limits to even my geekery. I don’t know what happened to Week 41.) It’s… Continue reading 55 Weeks in 120 Seconds
Social Network Baby
SteelyKid shows off the latest in clothes for geeky toddlers: It’s not really the official Twitter logo bird, but it’s pretty close. After this was taken, we spent a good half hour playing a rousing game of “Clueless Mail Carrier”:
User Poll: What Should ScienceBlogs Add?
The Corporate Masters are considering some steps to take ScienceBlogs more in a community/ social network/ Web 3.14/ whatever direction, and have asked us our opinions of various potential features. I have opinions on the subject, but they’re ultimately less important than the opinions of you, the readers. So here’s an attempt to generate some… Continue reading User Poll: What Should ScienceBlogs Add?
Links for 2009-08-29
slacktivist: Vincible GooFiness “Set aside the edges of the bell curve — the innocent fools and the diabolical Becks and Limbaughs and the rest of their kind. The vast, vincible middle is constituted of people who, like the GooFies, are to some degree simultaneously innocent victims and deliberate charlatans, simultaneously deceived and deceiver. They don’t… Continue reading Links for 2009-08-29
Academic Poll: What Do Faculty Owe Former Students?
The Female Science Professor is thinking about what advisors owe their students: When I got my PhD and went out into the great big academic world, I felt that I had the respect of my adviser, but I knew not to expect anything more from him in the way of support in my career other… Continue reading Academic Poll: What Do Faculty Owe Former Students?
Second-Hand Second-Rate Culture War Hackery
Dave Munger on Twitter drew my attention to this blog post on college costs, and I really wish he hadn’t. The post in question is really just a recap-with-links of an editorial by John Zmirak, blaming the high cost of college on an unlikely source: [W]hat if universities began to neglect this basic charge, and… Continue reading Second-Hand Second-Rate Culture War Hackery