Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Selected Nuclear Materials and Engineering Systems “I know what you’re thinking : crystallographic and thermodynamic data of ternary alloy systems is a such a hackneyed plot device. But Landolt-Börnstein work their magic in such a subtle and layered way that at 3am when you are reading just one more page, you suddenly… Continue reading Links for 2011-01-03
Author: Chad Orzel
2010: The Year in Blog
Because I’m sure everybody is as fascinated by blog stats as I am, here’s the traffic to this blog for 2010, in graphical form: In case you can’t numerically integrate that in your head, I’ll tell you that the total number of pageviews represented there is a bit more than 908,000. We have yet to… Continue reading 2010: The Year in Blog
2010 Was Just This Year, You Know
I had vaguely meant to do a year-in-review post yesterday, like every other blogger running on the Gregorian calendar, but SteelyKid blew that plan to bits by refusing to take her nap until 2pm. It’s also kind of difficult to say much of anything coherent about 2010. It was a good year in a lot… Continue reading 2010 Was Just This Year, You Know
Links for 2011-01-02
What’s stats got to do with it? – Expression Patterns Blog | Nature Publishing Group “I recently learned that I have an above average number of legs. This is no cause for concern: most of you do, too. It was something I first learned when watching Hans Rosling’s The Joy of Stats BBC documentary. He… Continue reading Links for 2011-01-02
Links for 2011-01-01
How can I be a more awesome crackpot? “Let me begin by saying that the vast, vast majority of the emails and questions I get are really good. But every now and again, I’ll get an email where the implied question (if there is any) isn’t so much,”Is this theory any good?” but: How can… Continue reading Links for 2011-01-01
Benford’s Law of Amazon Rankings
Late last year, Matthew Beckler was nice enough to make a sales rank tracker for How to Teach Physics to Your Dog. Changes in the Amazon page format made it stop working a while ago, though, and now Amazon reports roughly equivalent data via its AuthorCentral feature, with the added bonus of BookScan sales figures.… Continue reading Benford’s Law of Amazon Rankings
In Which I Join the Century of the Fruitbat
Lookit the shiny: That’s a new Droid X smartphone, and it’s mine. I got it yesterday after discovering the existence of a slightly cheaper “data only” plan that is so secret only about 10% of Verizon Wireless employees know it exists. As my previous phone was a freebie LG flip phone from about three years… Continue reading In Which I Join the Century of the Fruitbat
Links for 2010-12-31
Christopher Guest | Film | Gateways To Geekery | The A.V. Club “No comic filmmaker is more intimately associated with improvisation than Christopher Guest, an alum of The National Lampoon Radio Hour and Saturday Night Live who made his name as a filmmaker co-writing, directing, and co-starring in improvised films riffing loosely on show business… Continue reading Links for 2010-12-31
Thursday Toddler Blogging 123010
I nearly forgot to post tonight’s Toddler Blogging photos, which would’ve been a Bad Thing, as you can tell from this picture. Toddler Blogging is Serious Business: That’s not the best Appa-for-scale picture, but I love the intense look on her face. This was taken in our spiffy, newly refinished basement, which is the new… Continue reading Thursday Toddler Blogging 123010
Best Music of 2010
I’ve shifted the iTunes shuffle from the Christmas-music playlist over to the top-rated songs of the year playlist because, well, it’s the time of year when anybody with any pretension of writing about pop culture does some sort of Top N list to wrap up the year. And, since I’ve got “pop culture” right up… Continue reading Best Music of 2010