Working Late (Version 2007)

 

While some illuminate a dome or a building, UCSD chooses to illuminate a funky chicken. (La Jolla, CA)

What you miss in SoCal.

I wish there was a nice fall in Southern California

New Big Pictures

Memories from 2005, 2006, 2007 (Boston, MA)

Summer Pictures

Just a couple of Gems:

Those aren't real swans (Boston, MA)


This is how you practice to be a missionary (Nicholasville, KY)

Academics (again)

Our cohort playing soccer.

Everything that's right with political junkies

In response to an article in the New Republic remarking about the momentum building of winning early primary states, our good friend Virginiacentrist writes:

"Yeah. If I'm Romney, I'm running ads in all of the post-NH states with Mitt Romney making an acceptance speech in Iowa/NH with big headlines that say, "Romney wins" and tons of balloons falling. Voters will say: "Duhhh....me like winners and balloons....me vote for Romney...."

"Same deal with the dems after Iowa. If Edwards or Obama manage to win, they need to run ads IMMEDIATELY in NH that basically have Obama or Edwards with balloons and confetti falling giving speeches and holding their arms up and what not while using the word "winner" and maybe the phrase "look at those shiny balloons" over and over. Then they'll win NH by 20% as old people travel to the polls and write in "Barack Balloons Obama" or "John Confetti Edwards"

"Primary voters are dumb."

Such sophistication and analytical research.

Everything that's wrong with Academia

You end up getting this:

"Coordination by precedent, at its simplest, is this: achievement of coordination by means of shared acquaintance with the achievement of coordination in a single past case exactly like our present coordination problem. By removing inessential restrictions, we have come to this: achievement of coordination by means of shared acquaintance with a regularity governing the achievement of coordination in a class of past cases which bear some conspicuous analogy to one another and to our present coordination problem. Our acquaintance with this regularity comes from our experience with some of its instances, not necessarily the same ones for everybody."

-David Lewis, Convention: A Philosophical Study

At its simplest???? gaaaaaaaaah.
Bill Watterson was right.

My academic problems: writing this while I should be reading that.

Never Smoked the Stuff

I was reminded of a humorous quote

When asked if he preferred natural grass or Astroturf after playing a game at the Astrodome, Tug McGraw replied,

"I don't know, I've never smoked Astroturf."

Thanks Tom.