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greengabbro | April 29, 2008What do Emperor Hirohito, Princess Benedikte of Denmark, and Duke Ellington have in common?
greengabbro | March 17, 2008Today, I am excited because I get to use the word "stomping" in some of my peer-reviewed serious science business. I like the word "stomping".
I also like the word "puddle" but I haven't managed to work that one in yet. Nor "titillating" (though I am citing a paper on "vibro-agitation", hur hur).
Anyway, since I am currently engaged in 24/7 thesis-related keyboard-smashing, perhaps you could give me some other challenge words to think about? The joy that I get from typing "impute" over and over and over is reaching a point of diminishing marginal utility.
greengabbro | March 3, 2008Much of scientific communication consists of throwing up a graph and then explaining it. There are some basic procedures for doing this, many of which were probably ignored by the speaker at your most recent department seminar. Don't be that mumbledy jerkface who never explains the numbers on his or her unintelligible axes!
I suggest that you use the following graphic prompt to practice giving talks in the style of your adviser, department chair, or another charmingly be-mannerism'd colleague:
Reload the page to get a new one.
greengabbro | February 18, 2008
I'm starting to see a light at the end of the tunnel that is grad school. I give it a 75% chance of being an oncoming train.
What this means for you, dear readers, is that in the coming weeks you'll be seeing a lot of bloggy self-plagiarism. I'll kick things off by posting a puzzle/meme I tried to start back in aught-one, which never caught on - probably because back then, we had to blog while navigating uphill both ways on monkey bars, and it's awfully hard to type with your toes.
Lo! Broil a new meme! Smile on cod, tilt silt, follow.
loft list:
T, doc, no E!
Ms. Wena
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greengabbro | February 14, 2008I am frequently earwormed by the alt-country band Uncle Tupelo's song New Madrid, in which the narrator begs an intraplate seismic zone to somehow restore his lost love:
Come on do what you did
Roll me under New Madrid
Shake my baby and please bring her back
So for Valentine's Day, I thought I'd poke around the iTunes store and see if I couldn't find something else to be earwormed by. Something a little less relentlessly cheesy than The Earthquake Of Your Love.
As it turns out, geological love songs are hard to find - and when you do find them, they're likely to be depressing (or else they'…