Friday, August 29, 2008

McCain picks Sarah Palin as running mate

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I just saw on cnn.com that John McCain has picked Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate for his presidential campaign. My immedia...

Future Ig Nobel laureate?

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The following blurb appeared in the issue of mini-AIR I just received by e-mail: "Bikinis Instigate Generalized Impatience in Intertemp...
Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Headline: Instant Replay in Baseball

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I only have a couple of comments to add to the raging debut, but I nevertheless want to provide an announcement that instant replay official...

Vintage Mason

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Most of you have probably witnessed what I consider to be vintage examples of my sarcastic wit. One MTBI student (Carlos Torres) even came ...

Coupling Between Coffee Places

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Today's barrista at my usual coffee place was the former owner of a coffee place I used to be a regular (and occasionally still go to). ...
Tuesday, August 26, 2008

A message to librarians

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Attention : In mathematics, the fact that a book has a new edition by no means whatsoever should be taken to imply that the old edition shou...

Maybe they should try crowd control next?

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At 10:15 this morning, everyone in my College was sent an e-mail (that was clearly not spam) titled "Please log off immediately " ...
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Monday, August 25, 2008

Grrr.... I'm annoyed

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In addition to my general grumpiness from being exhausted (I took a red-eye flight from Montreal), I seem to have misplaced about 100 pounds...
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What is... JPEG?

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Here is a belated post of an expository article from earlier this year that I have been meaning to point. This article, which gives the ma...
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Averaging of Nonlinearity Management with Dissipation

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My paper called Averaging of nonlinearity management with dissipation just appeared in Physical Review A . My coauthors are S. Beheshti, K...
Friday, August 22, 2008

Indie movies and pretentious coffee bars

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The study group with industry ended a bit after 1pm today, which gave me most of today, all of tomorrow, and part of Sunday to explore a bit...
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Greg Maddux is heading back to the Dodgers

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After a month or so of rumors, it appears that Greg Maddux has been traded again to the Dodgers . Awesome! Hopefully he'll help us win...
Monday, August 18, 2008

Clever solutions to problems

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I wasn't able to see some videos that one of my students sent me and I haven't had the time (or the desire) to deal with downloading...
Saturday, August 16, 2008

What happens in Montreal stays in Montreal

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Tomorrow morning I am heading on a bus to the airport for my flight to the land of maple leaves, Celine Dion, and Tim Horton's. (Tim Ho...
Friday, August 15, 2008

Overheard (errr... written) while Manuscript Drafting (aka, Quotes of the Day)

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Here is the first quote: "The history of statistics is replete with measures of association and correlation. Just because a measure has...
Thursday, August 14, 2008

Billboard of the Day

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Jaideep Singh posted an awesome billboard on his Facebook page. I understand the point of the billboard, but they managed to do this in a w...
Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Mathematics Job Wiki

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Following in the fine tradition of the condensed matter/atomic physics job rumor mill (and similar web pages in other physics subfields), th...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Say it ain't so!

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Apparently, there is now a remake of the piece of shit known as Beverly Hills 90210 . The reason the old show annoyed me is that it propaga...
Monday, August 11, 2008

Recap from Rome

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I'm blogging on this a bit belatedly, as is my habit. (I was going to be prompt, but then the whole laptop incident occurred.) I've...

Open source science

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Courtesy Dave Richard, here is a New York Times article about open source science . (By the way, yesterday we had a small Lloydies in Oxfor...