Monday, April 30, 2007

Start the presses!

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My book , Legends of Caltech III: Techer in the Dark (coauthored by Autumn Looijen '99), went off to the presses today. We started thi...

Grindhouse

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I wrote part of this post 9 days ago; I ought to finish it. Another movie I saw a while ago is Grindhouse , which Cat, Lemming, and I viewed...

But do they wear them at night?

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Here is a picture gallery (and accompanying article, which I didn't read) about some of the eyewear baseball players have worn in the p...
Friday, April 27, 2007

My future?

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This website apparently contains chapter 1 of a novel with a character who shares my name. (No word yet on whether I'm getting killed ...
Thursday, April 26, 2007

License plate of the day

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While leaving the parking lot after tonight's scrumptious dinner at Gyu Kaku, I saw a car with the license plate "MR SUBTL". ...
Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Baseball update

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The Dodgers are first in the National League West and have been for a while. (Granted, as I write this, our lead is only 1 game.) After tod...
Saturday, April 21, 2007

Tonight I dine on turtle soup

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Well, that was actually three weeks ago when I saw TMNT . The movie was really fun, and I was especially amused by the scene with the imp (...

Headline: Catholic Church Removes Outer Plane from Multiverse

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You don't believe me? Just take a look at this story on yahoo.com (which was pointed out to me by Danny Schwarzblatt). The Catholic Chu...
Friday, April 20, 2007

Alternative USB drives

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Courtesy Janet Sheung, here is an alternative USB drive consisting of a teddy bear that one has to behead to connect to one's computer....
Thursday, April 19, 2007

Slayage

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As was noted in another post , we (Lemming, Zifnab, [Mike]^2, Lanth, and I) have been powering through Buffy the Vampire Slayer recently. ...
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Tales from the arXiv: Updated paper edition

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The following paper recently got updated on the arXiv: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ \\ arX...

Words of advice for letters of recommendation

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The following letter to the editor was written by mathematics professor Gerald Folland and appeared in the April 2007 issue of the Notices o...

Today's fortune

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I opened two fortune cookies today. Here is the fortune that amused me: "You are heading for a land of sunshine and fun."

Quote of the Day

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This one comes from my attempt in an IM conversation to convince one of my friends (essentially by fiat) that I can be charming and not just...
Sunday, April 15, 2007

Bumper sticker of the day

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I was walking home this afternoon and I saw a car with the bumper sticker, "All your oil are belong to U.S." That is so awesome!

Report from the refereeing trenches

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I am currently refereeing the revised version of a paper I had previously refereed. (Actually, I have been doing a number of these lately, ...

Prank alert: The California Tech visits MIT

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Well, this isn't much of an alert because the prank actually occurred on Friday. I'm just getting around to posting this entry now....
Saturday, April 14, 2007

Rant Chaser: Baby Animals

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A while back, Lemming had the idea of pointing out something cute as a sort of 'rant chaser'. I think that idea is brilliant, so he...

Jackie Robinson and the meaning (or lack thereof) of "tributes"

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This one is going to be a rant... In his comedy sketches, George Carlin has a section devoted to "things that piss [him] off." We...

Physical Review resubmission process imitates Dragonlance

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I am currently trying to resubmit one of my articles to Physical Review A . My collaborators and I changed several of the figures (we neede...