The problem is “What should Chad do/ see in the evenings while he’s at DAMOP next week?” This is the major physics conference in my field, so my days will be pretty well booked up with talks and posters, but there’s not much after 6pm other than food and socializing. If there’s some not-to-be-missed Houston… Continue reading Houston, We Have a Problem
Links for 2010-05-22
News: Questioning Endowment Losses – Inside Higher Ed “High-risk, high-reward policies heavily influenced by Wall Street helped some college endowments grow to several times their original sizes, but they also did damage to employees, local communities and the global financial system, a new assessment of investment practices at Harvard University and five other New England… Continue reading Links for 2010-05-22
Precision Measurement Hits Cable
I didn’t see it live, but thanks to the wonders of the Internet, you can see Tom O’Brian of NIST talking about measurement on the Rachel Maddow show last night: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Tom used to have an office not far from the lab I worked… Continue reading Precision Measurement Hits Cable
alt.sic.transit.gloria.mundi
Duke shut down its Usenet server yesterday, which is significant because Duke’s server was the original home of Usenet. I think this means that Usenet is now available only to about a dozen people with panix accounts. I note this here because Usenet was an important part of my life. I started reading the rec.arts.sf.*… Continue reading alt.sic.transit.gloria.mundi
Links for 2010-05-21
PHD Comics: Grading Rubric Sounds about right. Maybe a little too generous on the lower row. (tags: comics piled-higher academia education silly) Producing novel semiconductors en masse – physicsworld.com “John Rogers, working with colleagues at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a related company, offer a production method by adapting a transfer-printing technique that… Continue reading Links for 2010-05-21
Thursday Baby Blogging 052010
How did my day of solo SteelyKid wrangling go, you ask? I can sum it up in one picture: She’s quite a handful…
Dorky Poll: Analogies
I’m home with SteelyKid today, because Shavuot is important enough to close the JCC for two days. This will mean essentially no Internet for me, as it’s difficult to type when you’re lying on the floor being jumped on by a toddler. As a filler post, let me take a cue from Making Light and… Continue reading Dorky Poll: Analogies
Links for 2010-05-20
The Virtuosi: Cell Phone Brain Damage: Part Deux “I thought I’d take another look at cell phone damage, coming at it from a different direction than my colleague. Mostly I just want to consider the energy of the radiation that cell phones produce, and compare that with the other relevant energy scales for molecules.” (tags:… Continue reading Links for 2010-05-20
Crikey, I’ve Been Anglicised!
I spent yesterday going over proposed copy edits to Anglicise How to Teach Physics to Your Dog for the forthcoming UK edition, which adds “Quantum” to the title, and will have all new cover art, etc. This means that clergy in the book are now permitted to marry, all book property belonging to the Catholic… Continue reading Crikey, I’ve Been Anglicised!
Bouncing Baby
SteelyKid’s day care is closed today and tomorrow for a Jewish holiday (happy (?) Shavuot to those who celebrate it), so she’s home all day for the next two. Of course, Kate and I are both crazy busy, so my parents are coming up to watch SteelyKid today while we’re off at work. We really… Continue reading Bouncing Baby