Monthly Archives: June 2012

The Internets are a Strange Place

I love reading Ars Technica. Their writing is exceptional and among the more unbiased. Granted, their specialty is technology and science-related material; they only report on politics and current events as it overlaps with the former categories. Their staff does … Continue reading

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As I lay failing at research…

…I’ll blog about it! In the interest of fully pointless disclosure: I’m trying to find a signal in this data for my research and utterly failing. Here’s a hint of what I’m up to: Needless to say, I’m stuck, so … Continue reading

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Why pay attention to email when you can ignore it?

For all that our generation has grown up with and embraced the Digital Age, we have proven appallingly atrocious at actually paying attention. Case study: email! My Ph.D. program has a weekly student seminar, where students in the program can … Continue reading

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Needz moar psots

Just when I thought I was getting back into the swing of regular updates. Let’s face it: my writing isn’t particularly interesting to begin with, so throw in some ridiculous scheduling, eighteen million meetings, and a few travel weekends to … Continue reading

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