Via a LiveJournal post on the dorkiest thing ever, a link that isn’t new, but new to me: The Lord of the Rings in quotes from The Princess Bride: PETER JACKSON: Frodo and Sam don’t get burned up by the lava. AUDIENCE: What? PETER JACKSON: Frodo and Sam don’t get burned up by the lava.… Continue reading Skip to the End
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Poetry About Physicists
Reading this article reminds me that I forgot to talk about the poetry reading from a few weeks ago. In lieu of a regular colloquium talk one week this term, we co-hosted a poetry reading by George Drew, a local poet with a book of physics-themed poems. There are some sample poems on that site,… Continue reading Poetry About Physicists
Wire Torture
With hoops season having wound down, we’re slipping into that time of the year when I don’t have anything to watch on tv. ESPN shows nothing but baseball, the NBA, and Mel Kiper, and there’s very little on regular tv that’s worth a damn. Happily, I have a pile of Netflix DVD’s from back before… Continue reading Wire Torture
Hugo Award Nominations
Last Friday, before descending into fluff topics like a serious scholarly treatment of Chris Mooney’s The Republican War on Science, Henry Farrell of Crooked Timber posted about something really important: The Hugo Awards. Weirdly, I find myself in the position of having read all of the Best Novel nominees, and this months before the awards… Continue reading Hugo Award Nominations