Fresh Wallaby Juice

Or do I mean “browns” intead of “blues”? Blue seems like a nicer color, at least right now, when it’s easy to get too much brown.
Spent most of last week poking away at draft 3, which doesn’t differ materially from #2 except for a few changes to footnotes; he wants me now to cite [...]

A good seminar has a good topic that’s well presented. Something original, something significant, something relevant to the audience’s own work. With good questions at the end.
Or, it has a bad topic, presented poorly. A bad topic presented well can still be entertaining; a good topic badly presented is just sad. [...]

“This just goes to show how much the country — how much the world needs a change on Nov. 2,” Sen. Kerry didn’t actually say while speaking to a group of supporters in some state his strategists thought would be important. “Look up at the sky! Bush has let his big business cronies [...]

of seeing otherwise interesting sites taken over by anti-Bush stuff… especially the wild-eyed frothing-at-the-mouth variety. Casual interest in the latest flash video game or whatever shouldn’t get hijacked by huge lists of all the horrible things those Republicans have done today (in between eating babies and beating little old ladies with gold bricks and [...]

And yes, I carried a briefcase in college. I also wore a tie all the time. This is why it doesn’t hurt if people call me a dork now. Oh, I think. You have no idea.
— James Likeks

There’s a pretty fine line between physics and chemistry, especially certain types of physics and chemistry. Always has been. Matter is matter, and the labels sometimes fall off and get a bit mixed up. And that’s fine. But lately, the electrical engineers have been jumping all over the microfluidics/MEMS stuff… small [...]