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Some great music for your enjoyment, as I continue my travels.
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Originally appeared here.
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I spent 6 nights in First City, First Hotel Chain, in room 1133. I just arrived in Second City, Second Hotel Chain, and was given a key to room number … 1133. Uncanny, right? DH jokes that I should place a bet on something at 11:33. 🙂 *** Today’s drive wasn’t very long, only about
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At this conference, I met a couple (a scientist husband and a homemaker wife) who’ve lived in North America for about 40 years. They are originally from a big country in Europe, and are not only very proud of their origins, but maintain ties that are so strong that one wonders why they ever bothered
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A colleague and I chatted today, and it seems we each have a student with the following characteristics: very talented, very hard working — to the exclusion of all else, very sensitive to criticism, and extremely anxious about the external recognition of their work (e.g., constantly comparing self to peers in terms of the number
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I did, eventually, after nearly 12 hours. This sexy rental-car beast — a 2017 Dodge Charger — and I traveled roughly 700 miles today across six states, and I feel way better than I would if I had flown instead: my legs were not cramped so my knees are not angrily throbbing now, and my
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This is a posts that I kept remembering to sit down and write, only to forget yet again. I was reminded of it as I read this post by mathbionerd, to which I arrived somehow by tracking the good news that Dr Becca of Scientopia and Twitter fame had indeed been approved for tenure —
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A few weeks ago, a colleague’s postdoc sent out a draft of a paper for comments. I looked at the paper and thought, “Wait, haven’t we published everything we had on this topic years ago?” To put things in context, I had an undergrad honors student working on the theory part of this project. Since
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Norman Ramsey has developed an engineering approach to mastering technical writing that I believe will appeal to the scientists and engineers that compose the bulk of my readership. Check it out! http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/pubs/eng-abstract.html
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This is a true story. Submitted a white paper (i.e., a preproposal). Received reviews for what could not have possibly been my project. Me: “Uhm, I don’t think these are for my white paper…” Program director: “Oops!” Still awaiting the right reviews. Dear readers, please share your hard-to-believe stories from the grant-seeking trenches in the
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