Sunday, October 30, 2005

What drug(s) were they on?

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Some of my recent media experiences have been the products of seemingly drug-induced minds. Mirrormask : I saw this movie yesterday and I re...
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Saturday, October 29, 2005

Ongoing Saga for the Leadership of the Dodgers

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The Dodgers used to be a hallmark of stability when it came to who ran the team---from managers Walter Alston and Tommy Lasorda to general...
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How I got my first postdoc (by request)

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Wren asked me to discuss this, so I'll do that now. If relevant, I can write the sequel later. As mentioned previously, I don't pl...
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Friday, October 28, 2005

"Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation."

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That quote was apparently uttered by Feynman. (I don't remember seeing it before.) There is some truth to it, of course, although ther...
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Thursday, October 27, 2005

"The Elements"

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Here is a flash animation accompanied by Tom Lehrer's "The Elements". Watch for how the animation shows Berkeleyium.
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Wednesday, October 26, 2005

"I have not now, nor have I ever been...

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... a member of the Boy Scouts of America." To continue quoting Tom Lehrer, "and the American Legion of tomorrow." I just go...
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Brains....

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There's a game that just came out called Stubbs the Zombie (in Rebel Without a Pulse). I've heard some good things about the game ...
Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Another marathon

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The Astros are developing a history of long postseason games. Today's game is the longest World Series game ever in terms of game time...

Lloydie from the class of 2001 in the New York Times

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This is redundant if you read the Gazebo's blog, but I'm posting this here anyway for the benefit of the older crowd. There's a...
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"Seniors Only"

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For the past few weeks, there has been some construction on campus right outside of Guggenheim and Firestone. The small construction area i...

When I accidently meet somebody, why does she have to be 18?

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OK, so it could have been really bad. She could have been 17. (Yes, I am starting it off with this sentence on purpose.) I went to Peet...
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Monday, October 24, 2005

How well can random walkers rank football teams?

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That's a question that two of my collaborators and I asked about two and a half years ago as part of an undergraduate math project at Ge...

Comic Book Covers (the Photoshopped variety)

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Justin passes along the following blog with doctored comic book covers . These are really cool!
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Do human males have a future?

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This is (approximately) the title of a bioinformatics and computational biology talk that will be given at Georgia Tech on Wednesday 10/26. ...
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Sunday, October 23, 2005

Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics

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In January 2004, I saw Gareth McKinley of MIT give a talk at Dynamics Days. Among other things, he showed us what happens when you shoot a ...
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Friday, October 21, 2005

Serenity

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I saw Serenity nine days ago and I'm only now getting around to posting this entry. The movie was definitely excellent, and I need to g...
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Bounty hunters in a Winnebago

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I just got back from seeing Domino . It had one of those high standard deviation trailers that looked interesting but which could lead to a...
Thursday, October 20, 2005

World Series: Astros vs ChiSox

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The Astros finished off the Cardinals last night, so we have our World Series match-up for this year. For the second year in a row, it'...
Wednesday, October 19, 2005

In which our hero sees an old friend for the first time since June 1996

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While this visit has been productive academically and the inn has been cool, the highlight of this trip very clearly lies elsewhere. A perha...
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In which our hero once again shows his wonderful sense of tact

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The flurry of posts continues... (There was stuff I meant to post last night, but I was having trouble with the inn's wireless last nig...
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