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Dave Bacon is a theoretical ski bum who is also a pseudo professor. His research is on quantum computing, his scientific passions extend to everything in physics, mathematics, computer science and beyond, and his personal pleasures include making wine, playing poker, skiing, camping, and daydreaming (although not all of those at the same time.)
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Category: Self: Meet Center. Center: Meet Self.
Posted on: May 21, 2008 4:31 AM, by Dave Bacon
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This kind of talk makes me want to stay as a student for just a little longer. I don't wanna be an academo if I have to pain my brain on a biannual basis.
Posted by: astephens | May 21, 2008 8:11 AM
Only 20 hours?
Piker.
;-)
Posted by: Orac | May 21, 2008 9:24 AM
Yeah, I just don't have the stamina I used to where I could make 36 hours working on single topic. Must have caught ADD.
Posted by: Dave Bacon | May 21, 2008 10:38 AM
I know... I love this time of the year. I try to compensate for all that brain frying by going down to the shop and drilling holes in things. Being an experimentalist, you might think that means I'm being productive... but alas, they're the wrong kind of holes.
Posted by: JM Geremia | May 21, 2008 3:33 PM
My equivalent of drilling holes is writing nothing blog posts.
Actually my being mean on my blog directly correlates with whether I've just finished writing a grant or not. Grant writing makes me a son of a...
Posted by: Dave Bacon | May 21, 2008 3:36 PM
Oh God. 20 hours straight is plenty. That sucks...
Posted by: Suz | May 22, 2008 1:13 AM
That's one advantage to being a theorist at a liberal arts college. I have no equipment and a reasonable (though not quite big enough) travel budget from the college.
Posted by: Ian Durham | May 22, 2008 12:08 PM
Dave ... watch this Rodney Mullen video ... starring several of my heroes ... it will ease the pain ... I promise!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzEY9QA1vRA
Posted by: John Sidles | May 22, 2008 4:46 PM