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- Every single shoe store in Boulder is sold out of Vibram FiveFingers. WTF? Must be that paper in Nature. #
- The first photographic installment of my ultramontane lotus eaters propaganda campaign: http://bit.ly/diTKMA You will move to Boulder…
# - Two summers later, I am *still* having transcendental habañero flashbacks (hot sauce from the freezer). Those plants were unreal. #
- How can I be this hungry and tired? Oh right, a day spent half running from rain/hail/lightning between 2800m & 3500m in RMNP will do that. #
- Awesome misty morning talk & hike to Royal Arch w/ Megan. Cautiously optimistic about T-mobile. Going to install a kickstand for a friend. #
- When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. Or, well, amateur — in my case anyway. I'm not in this for the money. #
- Weeding a friend's garden is like watching their kids. Bite-sized responsibilities and rewards, and everyone benefits. #
- Torrential sunshower, hallelujah! #
- Well that was fabulously entertaining, in a curiously high school kind of way… #
- Bryan snoring after 15hour bike & Longs Peak odyssey. I hiked to Divide, walked to dinner. Wonderful sunset. Need to sleep. #
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- Getting a little altitude with a fellow slacker for the day… #
- A long hot day of walking and talking. Like finding a long lost branch of your tribe, which you didn't really know existed. #
- Supposed to be 37°C tomorrow. I think I'm gonna tube down Boulder Creek. Woo hoo! #
- Somehow, it's more fun to persistently not get quite enough sleep while retired than while working. #
- Lounged with a friend amidst the towering cairns in cool Boulder Creek through the heat of the day. Ah, burritos, spices, girls & bicycles. #
- Made it to aikido at Boulder Aikikai tonight. Sweaty, but sweet. #
- Supposed to be roughly body-temperature in Boulder Saturday. I think I'm going to get high: http://bit.ly/9tsxdg #
- I have a red rug from Quchan, Iran, near the Turkmen border. If Allah wills it, one day I will visit by bicycle. #
- Intelligence & wisdom are really different things, and it seems like wisdom only comes with having already screwed things up at least once. #
- Biked Boulder-Jamestown-Ward-Gold Hill loop. Stopped to rest in shade on a climb. Butterflies landed on me and drank my sweat like nectar! #
- Had an unexpectedly awesome weekend in the mountains. Apparently being friendly isn't nearly as hard as I thought, in the right context. #
- Today's bad idea: going to the DMV w/o having had any coffee. Ugh. #
- Bleah. Woke up with a funky stomach. Still nibbling unenthusiastically on breakfast 6 hours later. #
- Good for romance; good for night vision. It's been a long time since I had a den of my own. #
- must stop referring to the humans in the third person. #
- Why is it that sometimes, right when I think that the weirdness is totally maxed out, someone goes and cranks it up to 11? #
- It's good to occasionally remember that the fact that everyone else is crazy doesn't necessarily mean you are sane. #
- Sounds of happy inebriated people laughing on Pearl in the cool breezy Colorado night from my bedroom window. #
- If *Bryan* doesn't want something anymore, it's a good bet that no thrift store wants it either! #
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Continue reading ‘Links for the week of July 7th, 2010′
- The sound of mingling laughter should never make one cry. #
- I hesitate to say it, but I think I'm completely packed and ready to go. #
- By some miracle of SoCal public transportation, I can easily walk + train all the way to the place this other guy is moving from in Tarzana. #
- Truck half packed with only minor injuries… #
- Truck and trailer seem gigantic compared to my bike and trailer… Heading out from SoCal, aiming for Green River, UT tonight. #
- 12 hours of driving is just about the edge of reason. Thankfully tomorrow is more like 6. #
- Time for part 2: the National District Attorney's Conference on Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. #
- I am 80302! Unpacked into garage, ate a burrito on bustling Pearl, live music and beer garden on a Wed. night, kids squealing in fountains. #
- Heading for the hills with some freaks and geeks for the weekend. #
- Good lord. And the winner is in Korea. What were they thinking? http://bit.ly/cUQ88Z #
- How did it get to be 4:30am? Ah, those kiwis. #
- I think it might be nap time. #
- Holy crap. Ever wonder what a SCOTUS nominee's inbox looks like? http://bit.ly/ddAMqv #
- What oh what order does the To Do list impose on my transient existence today? #
- This whole graduation thing makes me feel kind of like I'm putting all my relationships in the recycling bin. #
- What's wrong with graduate school? Where do I even begin! http://bit.ly/aS0bgK #
- An enthusiastic young guy from the Internet, and his groggy friend w/ a truck are removing our compost and dirt and tires. Sweet! #
- The main difference between postdocs and migrant agricultural laborers is that the Ph.D.s don’t pick fruit: http://bit.ly/cY9LlG #
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I say to you that we are full of chemicals which require us to belong to folk societies, or failing that, to feel lousy all the time. We are chemically engineered to live in folk societies, just as fish are chemically engineered to live in clean water—and there aren’t any folk societies for us anymore. (Kurt Vonnegut)
Wolfgang Pauli apparently once said of a student’s work: “This isn’t right. This isn’t even wrong.”, to deride it for being unfalsifiable. Grad school isn’t quite that bad. We’re all running the experiment together every day. We can tell whether or not it’s working, at least in theory. But only if we’re willing to look. I’m looking; I say it’s not working, at least not for graduate students, not on average (mean or median, pick your poison).
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