Archive for 2011
Sunday Song
Being happy
From The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope: But she was not a woman to be unhappy because she was growing old. Her happiness, like that of most of us, was ever in the future, – never reached but always coming. She, however, had not looked for happiness to love and loveliness, and need […]
Tricky
I’ve decided where I’m going to go to grad school! I’m very excited about the lab, the school, the new place. But I’m not excited about moving. Partly because of the actual pain of moving and partly because moving is going to be really expensive. Unfortunately, a lot of the work I need to do […]
Sunday Song
Journalism today / Journalism a century ago
From The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope: The ‘Evening Pulpit’ was supposed to give daily to its readers all that had been said and done up to two o’clock in the day by all the leading people in the metropolis, and to prophesy with wonderful accuracy what would be the sayings and doings […]
Relatively ignorant
Sometimes I scoff at people who are ignorant of things like basic science findings (especially well reported ones). Then I find myself asking very basic questions in an unfamiliar field.
Will you miss me?
My blog will disappear for a few hours on Thursday or Friday because Bluehost is physically moving the server that holds this blog. Hopefully they won’t drop it.