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Tweets
- In case, like me, you've been living under a rock recently: http://thewildernessdowntown.com/ (Thanks, Jeff!) 1 day ago
- Tomorrow is up at midnight and then bed at midnight. Blah. 4 days ago
- Napping in prep for a late night (Don Giovanni at Haus fur Mozart, then dinner), and early flight out. 4 days ago
- News item on my #Alpbach talk on ORF: http://bit.ly/bXZhDB 4 days ago
- Auditorium over full for presentation on James Bond and Physics. #alpbach #efa10 6 days ago
- Rain descends on the #efa10 in #alpbach http://twitpic.com/2ixsjn 6 days ago
- RT @floritter 'Our brain only learns things that are done with enthusiasm': Hüther #efa10 #alpbach 6 days ago
- Oops: The Der... Like The al Qaueda...RT @halavais: New term for me: the Der ... 1 week ago
- Interview for the ORF's science site (im Deutsch): http://science.orf.at/stories/1658905/ #efa10 #alpbach 1 week ago
Archives
Monthly Archives: November 2002
New metropolis
Metropolis, last nights rental flick, reminded me a lot of Buffalo. I’ll have to watch the original again: I haven’t seen it since moving to Buffalo. The reason, of course, is obvious. Buffalo’s heyday intersected neatly with the Nouveau movement. The most striking and obvious example is the city hall, but there is also the [...]
Return something day
Buy nothing day? I’ve observed the holiday since it started. Now I’m stepping it up a notch. I plan on returning an item tomorrow :).
Comments on the site are sometimes amusing:
why not participate? You can get what you want any other day. Plus you might get laid for being “proactive”. Support the futile “Buy [...]
California dreaming
It was a chilly snowy morning today, just in time for Thanksgiving. Finn loved it, and would have hoovered up the entire yard if we’d let him. As it is, he now has a belly full of snow and is curled up next to a heating register downstairs.
Around the same time, I ran into [...]
Blog locally, research globally
I would like to see my department at the forefront of open research. At first, this desire came from wanting faculty to collectively manage our school website and keep it from becoming another boring pamphlet. The plan was simple: instead of hiring a webmaster we should instead make it a graduate assistant position, and encourage [...]
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