Archive for January, 2011
Grad apps: so close!
I finished my second grad school application last night. Now I just have to get one more letter of recommendation before I drop it in the mail. My third grad school application should be finished by lunchtime today. Then I don’t have another application due until March. Making the application process more complex than I […]
Tag
I’m slowly cleaning up the tagging on the posts here. This will break a few links. I probably won’t catch all of them, so if you find one, let me know.
Figures Lie and Liars Figure: Heat Waves on the Rise
Image via Wikipedia If you’re new here, you might want to read the previous Figures Lie and Liars Figure posts, a public conversation on climate change between my skeptical aunt and myself. ********* Heat, ma’am! it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh […]
Gods’ games
It would be a pretty good bet that the gods of a world like this probably do not play chess and indeed this is the case. In fact no gods anywhere play chess. They haven’t got the imagination. Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a […]
Flattr Update: Breaking Even and Accepting Donations
Image via CrunchBase I started using the microdonation service Flattr back in September. I like it better than advertising because it doesn’t clutter up websites with annoying ads and better than Paypal because it’s far more flexible (and principled). What do I mean by flexible? In addition to making one time microdonations through Flattr, you […]
Grad school applications: stalled
I started today motivated about working on my grad apps, got frustrated with a cranky repairman, and then scrubbed my kitchen and installed a new blog theme. (Let me know if anything is broken please!) I’ve got about two hours before a friend comes over for dinner and a movie. I could read a few […]