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
Social Network Baby
SteelyKid shows off the latest in clothes for geeky toddlers: It’s not really the official Twitter logo bird, but it’s pretty close. After this was taken, we spent a good half hour playing a rousing game of “Clueless Mail Carrier”:
User Poll: What Should ScienceBlogs Add?
The Corporate Masters are considering some steps to take ScienceBlogs more in a community/ social network/ Web 3.14/ whatever direction, and have asked us our opinions of various potential features. I have opinions on the subject, but they’re ultimately less important than the opinions of you, the readers. So here’s an attempt to generate some… Continue reading User Poll: What Should ScienceBlogs Add?
Links for 2009-08-29
slacktivist: Vincible GooFiness “Set aside the edges of the bell curve — the innocent fools and the diabolical Becks and Limbaughs and the rest of their kind. The vast, vincible middle is constituted of people who, like the GooFies, are to some degree simultaneously innocent victims and deliberate charlatans, simultaneously deceived and deceiver. They don’t… Continue reading Links for 2009-08-29
Academic Poll: What Do Faculty Owe Former Students?
The Female Science Professor is thinking about what advisors owe their students: When I got my PhD and went out into the great big academic world, I felt that I had the respect of my adviser, but I knew not to expect anything more from him in the way of support in my career other… Continue reading Academic Poll: What Do Faculty Owe Former Students?
Second-Hand Second-Rate Culture War Hackery
Dave Munger on Twitter drew my attention to this blog post on college costs, and I really wish he hadn’t. The post in question is really just a recap-with-links of an editorial by John Zmirak, blaming the high cost of college on an unlikely source: [W]hat if universities began to neglect this basic charge, and… Continue reading Second-Hand Second-Rate Culture War Hackery
Links for 2009-08-28
Roger Ebert’s Journal: Archives “In my case, I haven’t taken a drink for 30 years, and this is God’s truth: Since the first A.A. meeting I attended, I have never wanted to. Since surgery in July of 2006 I have literally not been able to drink at all. Unless I go insane and start pouring… Continue reading Links for 2009-08-28
Thursday Baby Blogging 082709
SteelyKid says “Pose with Appa? No way! I’m a baby on the go!” I actually did get a couple of reasonable Appa-for-scale shots (one is below the fold), but I like the action quality of this one. It’s an accurate representation of what she’s like at the moment, too.
Dorky Poll: Quantum Pictures
I’m feeling slightly better, but still a little wobbly, so here’s what may be the dorkiest Dorky Poll yet: How do you like your quantum mechanics?(trends)
Kennedy and Nixon
One of the most remarkable things I’ve ever seen was the posthumous rehabilitation of Richard Nixon about fifteen years ago. Here was a man who resigned as President before Congress could throw him out, whose whole term in office was characterized by an all-consuming arrogance and a contempt for the law that wouldn’t be matched… Continue reading Kennedy and Nixon