Janet thinks she’s scoring nerd points by posting a picture of her nerdy watch, but I can match her timepiece: OK, there’s nothing particularly nerdy about the watch itself– the nerd part is the band, which in this case, is held together with a cable tie. The little loops that are supposed to keep the… Continue reading I Got Your Nerdy Watch Right Here
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ScienceBlogger Nerd-Off
Fed up with the hotness contest results, Janet has decreed a nerd-off, asking for: your geekiest jokes, your nerdiest life-lessons, your testimonial to your favorite programing language (or tissue culture medium), what have you. We’ve already had a local thread of funny physics jokes, but for sheer nerd value, it’s hard to top the classics:
Making RateMyProfessors Look Scientific
There was a flurry of activity yesterday, while I was working to get ready for the start of classes, regarding a flawed contest to select the hottest science blogger. Clearly, when some pasty English dude wins, there’s a problem with the methodology. Like, for instance, basing it off a blog aggregator that doesn’t include physicists…… Continue reading Making RateMyProfessors Look Scientific
Datastarve
Verizon, in its wisdom, has decided that Chateau Steelypips is not, in fact, in need of DSL service this weekend. We’ve been without Internet connectivity since mid-afternoon yesterday. This is probably for the best, as my neck and shoulder are starting to suffer some twinges indicative of muscle spasms brought on by too much typing,… Continue reading Datastarve
Physics Blogging Equilibirum
Some new additions to the physics blogroll: 1) Not all that new, but I keep forgetting to post a link: Clifford Johnson has spun off Asymptotia from Cosmic Variance, to house his own brand of bike-riding, concert-going, vegetable-buying physics blogging. If you read Clifford’s stuff at Cosmic Variance, you know what you’re getting. If you… Continue reading Physics Blogging Equilibirum
Too Stupid to Be a Scientist
True Lab Stories really are everywhere these days. Via Inside Higher Ed’s Around the Web, a blog called “What the Hell Is Wrong With You?” offers True Lab Stories: The Party Game (my name, not hers): Back in the good old days, when La Blonde Parisienne and I were bright young grad students working in… Continue reading Too Stupid to Be a Scientist
A Squabble of Kerfuffles
Well, it’s as good a guess at a collective noun for “kerfuffle” as any other… There have been three moderately heated bloggy controversies that I’ve been following over the past week, that I haven’t commented on. Mostly because I don’t really have that much to add to any of the arguments, or at least, not… Continue reading A Squabble of Kerfuffles
Audience Participation Friday: Introduce Yourselves
I usually try to post some lighter material on Fridays– dorky polls, random tracks, that sort of thing– and this week, I thought of three different topics that are all basically hooks for comments. So, I’m declaring it a theme for the day, because, well, I can do that. I doubt this will become a… Continue reading Audience Participation Friday: Introduce Yourselves
July Search Engine Keywords
I’m very pleased to report that in the month of July, no less than 35 people found this site by searching for some variant of the phrase “Queen of Niskayuna.” The dog’s going to be insufferable when she hears this. I’m also pleased to report that Aaron Bergman no longer shows up in the top… Continue reading July Search Engine Keywords
Total Eclipse of Futurism
Over at Making Light, the Nielsen Haydens stumbled upon a video of the Hurra Torpedo version of the Bonnie Tyler/ Jim Steinman kitsch masterpiece “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” which absolutely boggles the mind. Of course, the weird thing is that their re-invention isn’t actually any weirder than the original video, which Teresa also attempts… Continue reading Total Eclipse of Futurism