This was delayed a day by yesterday’s ranting, but I wanted to explain the significance of the people in Monday’s lesser-known quantum mechanic smackdown. I’m happy to see that, as of this morning, three candidates have rallied past the “unique flower” option. In reverse order of popularity:
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Links for 2009-09-02
Pimp My Novel: Self-Publishing: Great Idea… or Worst Idea Ever? “Very occasionally, a self-published novel will be something that was somehow overlooked by the publishing industry as a whole and is actually quite good and/or salable. 99%+ of the time, however, these books are either written by the functionally illiterate, are tangled messes of inane… Continue reading Links for 2009-09-02
The Delete Key Is Your Friend
As a veteran of Usenet, I’ve only grudgingly come to accept the practice of putting all responses to an email in a lump at the top, with the quoted text below. I much prefer to have the responses interleaved with the original points being responded to. I’ve pretty clearly lost this one, though, and I’ve… Continue reading The Delete Key Is Your Friend
Dehumanizing the Two Cultures
It’s probably a good thing that I don’t have full-text access to Mark Slouka’s article in Harper’s, with the title “Dehumanized: When math and science rule the school.” Just the description in this Columbia Journalism Review piece makes me want to hunt down the author and belt him with a Norton anthology: According to the… Continue reading Dehumanizing the Two Cultures
Links for 2009-09-01
Infinite Summer » Blog Archive » Join the Tunnel Club “It’s decision time now, though (it takes at least a month to line up Guides, guests, and so forth). And while I continue to have no solid plan, I am slowly tumbling to the realization that I am going to continue the site, at least… Continue reading Links for 2009-09-01
Basketball Baby
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…)
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