Feb 11 2010
Snowball Fight!
Check it out:
http://www.smudailymustang.com/?p=21706
I promise you, they are excellent students, every one. They work hard, and they play hard.
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Jul 01 2009
An end to shitty public wifi
In a world where mobile internet is becoming as available as air and water, I think it’s time to enforce the same standards for internet as for air and water. When a place offers wifi for free, they ought to be required to provide a minimum of quality internet service (e.g. a target minimum latency [...]
Jun 17 2009
Breiman Grapevines
I took a break this afternoon, met up with Jodi and her colleagues, and went out for coffee. While sitting outside, sipping our drinks, one of the students pulled out his mobile phone and showed a picture to Jodi. He said that he was reminded to show the photo since we were sitting right by [...]
Mar 17 2009
Killingworth, CT – on Car Talk?
What a shock to hear a call from my home town of Killingworth, CT, on NPR’s “Car Talk” this last weekend. I always tell people Killingworth is the CT town they’ve never heard of. Now, I guess Chester gets that distinction.
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Feb 24 2009
Retinopathy
I recently made the analogy between the potential mis-management of stimulus money to hire lots of people, and the mis-management of diabetes [1]. This analogy resulted from a conversation with a close colleague of mine. Today, my discussions with that colleague (I’ll respect his privacy for the time being, referring to him only as the [...]
Feb 12 2009
200 years
It’s been 200 years since the births both of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin. I’m not smart enough to pontificate on the significance of this day, but I will say this: what a day, that marks the birth of the man who would one day reunite a broken nation, that marks the birth of the [...]
Feb 09 2009
Research culture
At a time when scientists and politicians are trying to raise the federal investment in research, selling it not just for its intended work but its benefits to society, we see the emergence of criticism of some of the culture in the federal research agencies. Specifically, an astronaut has apparently created a video satiring the [...]
Dec 31 2008
Nickname
Stephen “Cooley” Sekula [1]. Heh. Hilarious.
[1] http://www.physicsforums.com/showpost.php?p=2015066&postcount=2
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Dec 06 2008
Saying goodbye to too many crazy physics nerds
Last night, Jodi and I attended a farewell dinner for one of the students I work with on BaBar. I’ve begun to realize that a lot of the students I’ve come to know in the last year are defending their theses and moving on to better positions in the field. It’s the natural course of [...]
Dec 06 2008
Sector Zero
I injured my ankle on an over-aggressive run back in late August or early September. Since then, I haven’t been able to run more than about a mile before inviting shooting pain. However, I’ve still needed a stress outlet, so I dusted off my road bike and started taking rides during the lunch break. I [...]
