I may do some fiddling with the blog template over the weekend, but I'm unlikely to post anything substantive until Monday. Here are a handful of links that caught my eye in recent days to fill the gap:
- Via a mailing list: A weirdly cool hand-written web clock.
- Also via that mailing list, a group of archeologists working in Egypt have a photo-blog of their dig.
- The guys at BioCurious do us all a favor by reading the responses at the Edge Question Center, and indexing the interesting answers.
- In academia, Timothy Burke is teaching a class I'd like to take.
- Elsehwere in academia, Dave Bacon is teaching a course whose lecture notes I'm going to steal.
- Inside Higher Ed has posted the final installment of their "What They Don't Teach in Grad School" series for aspiring faculty. Some of the advice is fairly specific to the humanities, but the more general stuff is pretty good.
- Dave Munger has posted some preliminary thoughts on moving to ScienceBlogs, and I mostly agree with what he says.
- And finally, is seems the launch of ScienceBlogs has spread to people with whom I barely share a character set. I have no idea what that says-- I hope it's positive. Regardless, I'm weirdly flattered to see somebody writing about me in Chinese.
And that clears the Bloglines feeds for another week...
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Well, that post talks about your move to scienceblogs. It is positive, sure.
You do share some character set with me actually, Japanese. I had also been at Institute for Laser Science, University of Electro-communications, in different years though. Probably, we had sat in the same office, but no overlap in time. :-)
Well, that post talks about your move to scienceblogs. It is positive, sure.
I didn't think it would be anything all that bad. I'm just always a little surprised to find blogs linking to me that I can't read. There are a couple of blogs in Portugese that linked to the Steelypips site, and it was always odd to see them in Technorati.
You do share some character set with me actually, Japanese. I had also been at Institute for Laser Science, University of Electro-communications, in different years though. Probably, we had sat in the same office, but no overlap in time. :-)
Really? Small world. (I was on the top floor, all the way at the end of the hall...)
To be honest, I could never read much Japanese. I learned the katakana system, because those were mostly foreign words anyway, and I knew a few hiragana, but the kanji were always a mystery. I used to memorize the shapes associated with subway stops, and just do pattern recognition.
Anyway, thanks for reading.