In an effort to keep from turning into a total slug on weekends, I’ve taken to riding my bike on the Mohawk-Hudson Bikeway, which passes fairly close to our house. Getting on the trail can be a little nerve-wracking, depending on the traffic, but once on it, it’s a pleasant ride all the way to… Continue reading Clifford Johnson Tribute Post
Month: August 2006
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
Random Quotes
Since everyone else is doing it, I’ll go along with the game, and post five random quotes that “reflect who you are or what you believe,” chosen from the randomizer at quotationspage.com. This actually took a while, because I’m not wild about most of what they throw out. I’ll throw in a bonus sixth quote,… Continue reading Random Quotes
Sports Fault Lines
The Times takes up the critical question of locating the boundary between Red Sox and Yankees fans in New York and Connecticut. They do a comprehensive survey of the boundary line in CT, but only a fairly cursory sweep north. Albany is on the Yankees side of the line, but it’s a near thing. Union’s… Continue reading Sports Fault Lines
Science at the Cinema
For some reason, I’ve been thoroughly exhausted all week, and being out late last night for a concert hasn’t helped any. Thus, you’re not going to get much in the way of substantive blogging from me today. I did want to note a weird example of synchronicity in the physics-related blogosphere, though, as both Clifford… Continue reading Science at the Cinema
Couldn’t Happen to a Nicer Team
Lately, I’ve taken to putting ESPN’s Mike and Mike show on the tv in the morning while I make breakfast and do my morning exercises. It’s sort of interesting to watch people doing a radio show on tv, I enjoy their shtick, and now that the NFL season is nearly upon us, it actually sort… Continue reading Couldn’t Happen to a Nicer Team
Hair Gel and an iPod
As the “binary liquid explosive” plot sounds a little implausible, and the usual lack of, you know, hard evidence regarding the plot begins to become clear, the question has to be asked: what was really up with the terror plot that has banned an entire phase of matter? Wondermark has the answer. (Register link via… Continue reading Hair Gel and an iPod
True Lab Stories: Career Tracks
Back when I was an undergrad, I spent the summer before my senior year on campus working on my thesis project (trying to build a MOT for rubidium, which never did work). That same summer, one of the guys I did problem sets with, we’ll call him J., who was only a rising junior, was… Continue reading True Lab Stories: Career Tracks
The High Cost of Assigned Reading
Inside Higher Ed has a short news story on a new report on textbook prices that finds the big publishers failing to offer low-cost books: In reviewing the catalogs of each of the publishers, the group looked for 22 frequently assigned textbooks, which had an average cost of $131.44 per book. Of the 22 textbooks,… Continue reading The High Cost of Assigned Reading
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