2014 Redux
At the beginning of the year, I made some resolutions. How did I do? Get back to my 2010 weight and muscle mass. FAIL. Bwa ha ha ha ha, I’m in the worst shape ever! But I had many life…
A diagnosis for why I missed the 10th anniversary of this blog.
I’ve been writing this blog for over a decade. I missed the deadline, back November 4. I reckon it only makes sense. The times I was most into this blog were in 2004-2005 when I would write silly short quips…
I’m a doctor!!!
Dear freaders, When I started this blog, I was a lowly 19-year-old college student from New Mexico. In that time, I’ve lived in Australia, Seattle, and North Carolina, I’ve had a half-dozen jobs, and I’ve gone through graduate school. As…
Disparaging humor
One day, I stopped listening to the WTF podcast and to Walking the Room. I stopped reading the famous blogs of Brian Leiter, Jerry Coyne, and Larry Moran. I stopped hanging out with my friends Dave, Miranda, and so many…
Help choose my new middle name!
I have never had a middle name. And now that I’m 29, I think it’s about time to fix that. So I am going to legally change my name. Here are the best options thus far: Linneaus/Linneo1 Buckminster Maxwell/Maximiliano Ampersand/Interrobang…
“It’s like Cosmos meets Mythbusters”
(Working) Title: The working title is “In the Know”1 Pitch: a weekly, 30-minute, three act show hosted by a scientist and a comedian ((I’m thinking Janna Levin and Myq Kaplan)) as they explore three science-related topics. Each week, we cover…
How to Ensure Prison Rape
I don’t want to make any assumptions. I worry my penultimate post was very negative about prison rape. But, in the interest of fairness in media, I’ll teach you how to ensure prison rape happens to you or your loved…
Life Block
I am really good at starting projects. Insanely good. I will have lots of awesome ideas and go super far with them in the first week. I tell people, “you could make a fortune by following me around and finishing…
How to Avoid Prison Rape
Some time ago, I remarked on a comment a now forgotten friend once said to me: They’ve already broken the social contract. You don’t know what else they’re capable of, so you should just obey what they say and hope…
29 things I DID do before turning 29
Let’s be happy! Let’s do the opposite of last post! Imagine if I’d had the most foresight? What would my goals have been? These are them! Go to graduate school. Finish my dissertation. Travel to several countries. Be in a…
11101
It’s my golden birthday right now. Hard to be more meaningful than that. I was born 29 years ago right now on May 29, 1985. Snapshot of my life: I am moving out of my lovely house to move in…
29 things to do before I turn 29, redux
You might not remember this list, but it’s been central to my mind for months. Not hang myself with a belt Success. I now hang myself with pride. Be happy with where I live and who I live with Success.…
Regalia Bingo
Probably very few people outside of academia will use this, but I think it’s worth having if anybody ever needs it. 🙂
The Agreement
Neil deGrasse Tyson recently made a stir in the philosophy community by disparaging the entire field as asking pseudoquestions. Essentially, he says philosophers waste their time, think they are doing important things, and he doesn’t have time for them. Admittedly,…
I don’t understand Tumblr
But is 320 notes in 6 hours a good amount? It seems like a lot. My thesis rules.
Halifax
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…
Rounding Home
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…
Tags, not categories.
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…