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"Uncertain Principles" features the miscellaneous ramblings of a physicist at a small liberal arts college. Physics, politics, pop culture, and occasional conversations with his dog.
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Emmy is a German Shepherd mix, and the Queen of Niskayuna. She likes treats, walks, chasing bunnies, and quantum physics.
Category: Pop Culture
A predictably stupid discussion of this xkcd cartoon in a place I can't link to reminded me that I haven't posted the list of Christmas songs that don't suck yet this year. This has expanded somewhat since last year, thanks...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 7:42 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Pop Culture
SteelyKid's third birthday is next week, but we're going to Kate's mother's for the day itself, so we're having a birthday party today for her and her friends from day care. So, even though all the news is depressing, it's...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 3:33 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Book Writing
I've been going through the manuscript for the book making up a list of glossary words (a frighteningly long list), and also noting miscellaneous pop-cultural references-- quotes, direct mentions, paraphrases, etc. I'm sure I've missed a few-- many of them...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 4:38 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Polls
A lot of people who rail against popular music (hipsters, classical music snobs, etc.) will cite the mere presence of one or more saxophones in a song as evidence that it sucks, as if saxophones are inherently evil. I've never...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 2:23 PM • 32 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Polls
A very silly musical poll question, brought to you by the local classic rock station's music selection this morning: Which of these makes more sense:online surveys On an unrelated note, it's deeply unfair that sleeping really late puts SteelyKid into...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 12:18 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Music
I can see the oncoming train at the end of the book-in-progress, so I'm going off the grid to try to finish a draft of the final chapter and introduction. Here's something to think about while I'm away from the...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:42 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Pop Culture
I got home very late last night after my talk in New Paltz, the cold that I've been developing for the last week has hit full strength, and I'm giving an exam this morning. So here's something completely silly: Which...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:15 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Polls
It's the last week of the winter term here, so here is a totally serious and important music-related poll question: Which do you prefer?survey software (OK, maybe the end-of-term craziness is making me just a tiny bit punchy...)...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:51 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Pop Culture
As has been mentioned numerous other places, ESPN is backing a new Bill Simmons project, which basically sounds like a pop-culture blog network kind of thing, headlined by Simmons and Chuck Klosterman. I saw this a while ago (I think...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:38 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Pop Culture
I picked up a few albums off "Best of 2010" list a few weeks ago, and have been listening to them on shuffle play a lot. These included Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Which is kind of a...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 11:13 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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