halting on the brink...
Category: academia
The essence of a good prank is to know when to stop...
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Dynamics of Cats
Speculations on astronomy, astrophysics, news I find interesting, theoretical issues, science and science policy. I will digress into computational physics, science fiction and general issues and basically whatever I feel like whenever. And, of course, cats.
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Old Favourites:
- Global warming on Mars? (or here, here, or here)
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- On The Proper Subject Order in High School
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March 31, 2008
March 30, 2008
Chaos Hack
Category: random
The Chaos Computer Club, in an inspired hack to draw attention to some of the idiocies of biometric IDs, lifted the fingerprint of the German Interior Minister...
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Obama at PSU
Category: random
Obama giving a stump speech on the lawn just down from my office. Good turnout, good weather, good speech. Had to bail before the end, very intense crowd - Sen Casey, the PSU quarterback and Jay and Sue Paterno...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:36 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 28, 2008
special delivery
Category: random
Did I mention that our undergraduate students are really awesome!...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:41 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
iPod iChing - turmoil at the top
Category: random
Rainy friday. Wot? No Snow? Must be spring already. So we bounce over to the Mighty iPod and ask, most chirpily: WTF was going on down at HQ? Whoosh goes the randomizer. Whoosh....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 9:20 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 27, 2008
NASA snippets
Category: astro
space.com interview with Weiler...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:27 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 26, 2008
cosmology politics
Category: astro
Quintessence - Obama Cosmological Constant - Clinton We don't need no steenkin' dark energy - McCain Discuss....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:58 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
the light side of life...
Category: random
helpdesk 1.4.4.0...
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NASA turmoil
Category: astro
Stern out as SMD head. Weiler in....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:43 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 25, 2008
summer cruises
Category: random
it has been yonks since I randomly rambled about middle eastern muddles, so why not now......
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:12 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
the more things change...
Category: random
hm, so there is this country, facing a declining currency, rising inflation, turmoil in the stock market with large fluctuations in key indices on short terms, real estate market bubble that looks like it might be popping, and concern that...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:49 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 24, 2008
strange things in academia
Category: random
would the person who left the flowery hula skirt in my office this weekend please come and collect it... an explanation for how it got there would also be useful....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:53 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 23, 2008
Happy Pasta
Category: random
Happy Holidays! May his Noodly Appendages tickle you on this most festive of days....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 3:51 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 21, 2008
Do you have the time...
Category: random
Curious coincidences in the Obama passport scandal...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 5:46 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
iPod iChing - will they come?
Category: random
Sunny happy friday, and the hordes have descended upon us. So, oh Mighty iPod... modulo the vagaries of the fickle humans, we ask: will they come? Whoosh goes the randomizer. Whoosh....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:29 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 20, 2008
psycochemical and behavioural analysis
Category: academia
I promised this to a colleague, after I made an unnecessarily cryptic reference to a potential solution to an academic issue that frequently comes up...
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They called him Brian
Category: random
happy vernal equinox!...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 3:28 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
flood watch
Category: science
NOAA provides a River Watch web site - it includes tentative estimates for future precipitation forecast in its estimates, so the long range forecast is uncertain...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:44 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Dark Matter: The Movie
Category: astro
Dark Matter is a movie. It is about a brilliant young physics grad student, life at university, and the interaction between a student, his advisor and the academic hierarchy. Should we be "concerned"?...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:03 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 19, 2008
did you hear...
Category: random
that Iran said, that Israel said, that Cheney said to Oman that the US might attack Iran......
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:04 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 18, 2008
ACC RIP
Category: astro
Arthur C. Clarke, engineer, author and visionary has died. He was good. Another one gone....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:22 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Women Scientists
Category: astro
Science Education and Society has a blog meme: name five women scientists in your field, not at your institution...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:30 AM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Bears
Category: random
Following the market? Intrigued by the collapse of investment banks?...
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dark matter illustrated
Category: astro
the students look younger every year...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:02 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 16, 2008
iPod iChing - bears?
Category: random
it is no longer friday, but we blame the weather, and cheerfully ask the mighty iPod one: will the bears come out to play on monday? Whoosh goes the randomizer. Whoosh....
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March 13, 2008
Carnival of Space
Category: astro
I've lost count, but there is a new Carnival of Space over at Missy's place...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:53 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 12, 2008
vertigo
Category: astro
some days I am really glad I am a theorist
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 5:37 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 11, 2008
Fallon out
Category: random
Admiral Fallon, head of US Central Command - ie Iraq and Afghanistan has resigned. Why?...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 3:50 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 9, 2008
birthday boy
Category: random
PZ is a year older, but still frisky...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:47 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 7, 2008
Cosmology for Cats 22
Category: astro
DM found...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:34 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
resource exhaustion
Category: astro
we did it, astronomy has reached carrying capacity...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:28 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
an astronomy tale of terror
Category: astro
climate catastrophe, turbidity and academic angst on campus...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:12 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
iPod iChing - HST late night edition
Category: astro
It is friday, but it is not snowing, here, yet. So, we skip to the mighty iPod and we ask: modulo the vagaries of fickle panelists, how will our Hubble Proposals, cycle 17, fare? Whoosh goes the randomizer. Whoosh....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:01 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 6, 2008
I'll take anticorrelated isocurvature with tensor modes, please
Category: astro
Did you know the universe is 13,690 million years old, this week, plus or minus 1%.
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 3:14 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
under/over
Category: astro
Hubble proposal deadline tomorrow, lest you forget. How many proposals do you think we will get? I think I know. You wanna bet?...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:40 AM • 32 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 5, 2008
"No, no, I don't think war will come"
Category: random
Press rumour that Bush may fire Admiral Fallon, head of Central Command specifically the rumour is that Adm Fallon may be relieved of command by this summer, 9-12 months before normal rotation would be considered, and that this is...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 5:15 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 4, 2008
The Circle Game
Category: astro
UK astro staggers back to life......
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 3:20 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 3, 2008
please don't drop it
Category: astro
Name that telescope...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:35 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
a sssshhhhhhelf contradictory statement
Category: astro
must.not.blog...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:58 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 1, 2008
ricin
Category: science
ricin poisons man in Vegas which book did the recipe come from
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