Month: April 2014

But is 320 notes in 6 hours a good amount? It seems like a lot. My thesis rules. Related posts: The Magic Ratio There is a direct and inverse squared ratio between the amount of awesome stuff one does and how many posts they put on their blog. Figure that one out.. .. Or don’t.…

Dear freaders, When I started this blog, back in 2004, I lived in New Mexico. Since then, I’ve lived in Sydney, Seattle, Mexico City, and now Durham. Now I’ve accepted a postdoctoral position in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Sooo… this blog is going Canadian from now on, eh? Whoo!! Related posts: Whoo! Whoo!! Whoo!!! Okay, everyone…

When I started graduate school six years ago, I don’t know if I actually ever really thought I’d finish my dissertation. I don’t think I imagined it being two times longer than it had to be and something I’m fairly proud of. But now that I’m in the last leg of the journey, I can…

I’ve hated the categories I’ve come up with on this blog for many years. So I’ve decided to get rid of them all and switch to tags. That means that until I go back over the catalog, most of the archives will be indecipherable. I’m happy with this. I’ve been living with false hierarchies and…

I had a job interview this week. While people were encouraging me to do well, I realized humans haven’t really figured out certain conversational norms. We don’t know what to say when some tragedy occurs (except a frowny face and the standard ‘if you need anything…’ remark), which I think is the worst case. But…