Happy Hubble Day!
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That is all. Now get back to writing some bloomin' proposals, you slackers....
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February 26, 2010
February 24, 2010
paralyzing institutional space science
Category: astro
So, who is taking odds on the Hubble Proposal Cycle 18 Deadline being postponed from this friday to next week because of The Upcoming Monster Storm! Even if it misses Baltimore, as the current track would have it, our...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:47 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 23, 2010
well, if I did, what would your answer be?
Category: academia
to answer a question: hiring of senior faculty is a lot like middle school dating. There's the "if I would, what would you answer?" followed by the "well, if you were to ask, and I were to answer, what...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 3:34 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 19, 2010
NASA's SDO
Category: astro
NASA's SDO destroys a Sundog on launch. Cool video....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:58 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
ACP 25th Anniversary Workshop on Black Holes
Category: astro
The Aspen Center for Physics is holding its annual series of winter workshops, with the final, double sized workshop being on the astrophysical topic of Black Holes....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:18 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 8, 2010
Presidential Question Time
Category: politics
why a "Question Time" for US Presidents is a bad idea
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:14 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 7, 2010
acts of gods
Category: random
Why do the gods keep interfering in football championships? And which gods? I'd think Loki, by default. But Manning's throw away really smells of Óðinn - he always had a macabre sense of humour about bringing down established fighters through...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:57 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Y rant on Mann hunt
Category: politics
The Yorkshire Ranter analyses the Climate Research Unity coverage in your friendly neighbourhood grauniad. Robert P. points us to an analysis of the crack itself - kinda blah. Basically trawling through a misconfigured server by a script kiddie....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:46 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 5, 2010
Agent Fresco
Category: Iceland
Newish super trendy band out of Iceland. Jazzy math music with touch of heavy rock. Or so I was told....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:32 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 4, 2010
Climate Research Unit Cracking - play the ball
Category: politics
Police question scientist in CRU e-mail leak!
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