Yesterday, Professor Filippenko showed a slide detailing possible splittings-off of forces (electromagnetic, strong nuclear, weak nuclear, gravity) during the earliest moments of the Big Bang. The complete lack of scale cracked me up. At the …
I just keep listening to "Michigan Militia" by Moxy Früvous on the You Will Go to the Moon album. I like the lyrics, I like the melody, I like the faux country-and-western/hip-hop sensibility. I like …
Another thing that hasn't happened in a while: feeling my heart speed up and my breath shorten as I go to dailycal.org. But the list of columnists for next semester will appear in Thursday's issue …
Last night was the first time in quite a while that I got an email from Dan. Funny how larger events percolate down to our daily lives. Excite/AT&T@Home stopped service, so Dan started using his …
When I see the Slashdot.org headline "Rent Music Over Net," I think of my freshman year of college, when my roommate Michal played the Rent soundtrack over and over and over. Streaming audio is exactly …
Kris: "Yeah, it's always about accidentally invoking unnamable horrors with me."
When I took Political Science 2 (Comparative Politics) my freshman year of college, Simon Stow pointed out a passage near the end of some article in our reader. "Some people say that [dangerously-close-to-straw-man argument]. They …
Why did I think this speech would be by Bruce Schneier and not Bruce Sterling?
During Astronomy 10 lecture today, Professor Filippenko explained physicists' search for a Theory of Everything and a Grand Unified Theory. "We want fewer equations! We want everything to fit on a T-shirt!" But I completely …
Adam, linguist extraordinaire, recommended this introduction to phonetics. Aaaah! I'm taking an introductory linguistics class next semester, supposedly for kicks, and I'll have to memorize all this? Aaaaah! On the up side, it might make …
