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Blake Stacey is a physics boffin and science-fiction writer who wandered the Earth and eventually settled in the nation-state of Denial.
February 27, 2009
Category: Social Events
In lieu of something more substantive, here are a couple announcements. First, my SciBling Bora "Coturnix" Zivkovic tells us that he'll be in the Greater MIT Metropolitan Area in the near future, thanks to a consulting gig he's taken with...
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February 26, 2009
Category: Plectics
"... 1978 was the year when the U.S. ran out of excuses for bad economic policy and performance." — Time Magazine, "1979 Outlook: Recession" (25 Dec 1978)...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 11:51 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 23, 2009
Category: About this Blag
As a result of my post on "How We (Don't) Write Mathematics on the Web", I've been pointed to some new toys which I'm going to have to try out. This will involve my switching blogging time over to coding...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 10:29 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 22, 2009
Category: Wobosphere Silliness
Today's Doonesbury: For the record, I had a date when I was a senior....
Posted by Blake Stacey at 3:36 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 21, 2009
Category: Neuroscience
It's a beautiful 275 K in Boston today. I've got Warren Ellis's 4am podcast playing on the stereo. This would be shaping up to be a good day indeed, if NPR hadn't stomped on it by wasting airtime on Michael...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 12:12 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 20, 2009
Category: Carnivalia
So, I got a check in the mail from ScienceBlogs, and another for my modest book sales (and for a wonder, my hyper-British Firefox installation is not insisting that I write about "cheques in the post"). I decided to spend...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 12:29 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 17, 2009
Category: Bad Math
Dave Bacon points to a retrospective piece by the American Physical Society, "The Top Ten Physics News Stories of 2008", and he indulges in a little nitpicking. Well, N can play at that game! Look at this summary, under the...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 9:36 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 16, 2009
Category: Software
I often joke that the technology for typesetting equations on the Web is of all-consuming interest to about twelve people. This is, of course, the kind of joke I make out of bitterness: it's a joyous day indeed when I...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 10:50 AM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 13, 2009
Category: Carnivalia
O! how much more doth beauty beauteous seem By that sweet ornament which truth doth give. Wm. Shakesper to the Fair Youth, Sonnet 54 The 105th edition of the Skeptics' Circle is now ontube at It's the Thought that Counts....
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Category: Fiction
When the movie was finished, Devi was still very high, and she began performing an interpretive dance about viruses. Standing with her feet scrunched together and pressing her hands against invisible walls, like a euphoric mime, she said, "This dance...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 10:35 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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