Category Archives: Blogging

To Pittsburgh

Posted on December 24, 2014 by Shannon Quinn

For those not in the know–The Lady and I just completed our 12-hour journey (yes I know GMaps says 9.5, but GMaps doesn’t have checkboxes for “traveling with cat” and “include pileup on a bridge in Virginia”) from our 4.5-year … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Graduate School | Tagged athens, awesome advisor was awesome, computational biology, friends, love pittsburgh, muffin the fluffernutter, pittsburgh, probably won't get three feet of snow at a time anymore, racing, runners, running, so many lovely people | 1 Comment

How to remember 2013

Posted on January 2, 2014 by Shannon Quinn

2013. So much to say about it. The downside is my gut check, instinctual response goes something like this. In many concrete, quantifiable ways, 2013 was frustrating. Running didn’t go particularly well. I didn’t even finish half of my 101 … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Graduate School, i ken make living plz, Occupation, Real Life, The Lady, Year in Review | Tagged 2014, cheesy idioms, conversations with myself, dissertation, graduate thesis, grumpy cat disapproves of this message, happy new year, i'm sew heppeh, job hunt, love the process, new job, new year's resolutions, office space is always relevant, resolutions, teh future, thesis defense, wedding | 1 Comment

I’m not dead yet!

Posted on April 15, 2013 by Shannon Quinn

Along these lines: This month is a beast. Like marathon training, I have to respect the beast. As such, until May 3 (when the last of my projects is due for the semester), I make no guarantees about the frequency … Continue reading →

Posted in Academics, Blogging, Graduate School, Real Life | Tagged bring out yer dead, make all the posts, posting hiatus, sounds like a bad tv show, two projects and a paper | Leave a comment

Congratulations! You’re being recruited!

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Shannon Quinn

Which, suffice to say, is not the same thing as being accepted. But it’s ε-away. Anywho. Yes everyone, recruiting season is once again upon us, and for better or worse that means everyone is putting their best foot forward. Universities are inviting promising … Continue reading →

Posted in Academics, Blogging, Graduate School, Running | Tagged Graduate School, hadoop, i'm a bus, joint phd program in computational biology, joint program hasn't taught me to roll one wtf, naive bayes, oh dear god can this paper just write itself, one does not simply create memes, physical therapy is fun but time consuming, pittsburgh half-marathon, recruiting, recruiting weeks are great because cookies are everywhere, running blog, transportation, where INDEED are the pancakes, yeah the bar scene isn't for everyone kthx | Leave a comment

Birthdays, Weddings, and Publications, oh my!

Posted on January 28, 2013 by Shannon Quinn

Yeah, I’ve been slacking on posting again. Which kind of makes my considerations of late to start a running-only blog somewhat premature. It’s difficult to say, though; occasionally I purposely don’t post here because I want to post about something other … Continue reading →

Posted in Academics, Blogging, Graduate School, lolcat, Real Life, Running, The Lady, Travel | Tagged arizona, birthday parties, freezing rain is literally the best kind of weather and by best i meant worst, george takei, hyatt regency, make sure to say "i don't know!" to lily, naturenaturenaturenaturenaturenaturenaturenaturenaturenaturenaturenature, pittsburgh says "yeah we're not gonna salt the roads because reasons", running in single digits is pretty brutal but not as brutal as freezing rain, seriously we had freezing rain this morning, whoever said you'll need to write for the rest of your life was absolutely correct | 2 Comments

Travel during the holidays

Posted on December 28, 2012 by Shannon Quinn

Shockingly–given the weather–holiday travel thus far has been smooth. That includes when The Lady and I drove up to Michigan on the 20th and left on the 25th: It also includes when we returned and the snow followed us to … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Holidays, the fam, The Lady, Travel | Tagged happy hanukkah, happy holidays, happy new year, i'm so over cold weather, is winter over yet, linus torvalds, marathon lessons, merry christmas, weather | 2 Comments

It’s like LJ on WordPress

Posted on October 16, 2012 by Shannon Quinn

Taking a cue from Megan (and because I’m still in publish-my-research-yesterday mode), I’m boring you all with more details about my running experiences with a questionnaire that delves deeply into the personal and leaves no metaphorical stone unturned…or something. 1. Best … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Internet, Running, The Lady | Tagged canadia, goals, hooray injuries, i run so i can eat, personal records are made to be broken, philly marathon, running | 4 Comments

Pre-race strategizing

Posted on September 11, 2012 by Shannon Quinn

The Air Force Marathon is this coming weekend. We had our last quality workout this morning (7mi tempo run); now it’s a mini-taper in final preparation for the Saturday half marathon. My goal is the same as it was for … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Real Life, Running | Tagged 9/11, air force, air force marathon, distance running, half marathon, just a short run, nine eleven, running, strategery, strategizing | 2 Comments

The Internets are a Strange Place

Posted on June 26, 2012 by Shannon Quinn

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 →

Posted in Blogging, Internet, Real Life, the dark side | Tagged also a lot of butthurt on the carreon end, bearlove good cancer bad, carreon, carreon's wife sounds like a real character, charles carreon, incredibly stupid and frivolous lawsuits, inman, matthew inman, theoatmeal, welcome to the internets | 2 Comments

As I lay failing at research…

Posted on June 23, 2012 by Shannon Quinn

…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 →

Posted in Academics, Blogging, Graduate School, Mathematics, Programming, Running, Technology, The Lady, Travel | Tagged blog about it, colorado, florida, garmin, github, gps, i'll blog so bad about it, kernel regression, kernel smoothing, linear regression, marathon training, pairwise distances, philadelphia marathon, publish or die, regression, ronon virtual cluster, scikit-learn, yeah i'm still working on getting unpacked | 4 Comments

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