Archive for the ‘gratitude’ Category
Tuesday, August 29th, 2006
In the spirit of appreciating when things work, even the very little things...
Last night I was next in line at OfficeMax between the only two open registers. I figured it was silly to choose a line when I could straddle them and go to the one that's available first. To ...
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Sunday, August 6th, 2006
A academic journal article based on my research was recently published in Chemistry of Materials. As second author, I contributed the numerical simulations confirming the results, for example, those shown in the plot below. I'm proud of this work, as I put a fair amount of time into ...
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Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
A few weeks ago I was at a red light when a man driving a Datsun (not Nissan) 280 Z pulled up in the lane to my left. It was silver with shiny chrome hubcaps, and was in excellent condition. According to a Wikipedia page, this car was produced between ...
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Thursday, February 16th, 2006
This is not the first post of this nature. Anyway, the show included a riff from Jonathan Richman's "Lonely Little Thrift Store" after a segment on Walmart's banking service. Good choice! They've used this riff before, and the album is sold on the Public Radio Music Store. Speaking ...
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2006
After meeting a friend for lunch I returned to my car to find the meter still had 12 minutes remaining. It occurred to me how absurd it would be to stick around for that time to "get the most for my money," but still, I had the thought, which is ...
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Wednesday, January 4th, 2006
Woohoo! I was reading about Robert Cialdini's idea of commitments "growing their own legs", and found that on his entry on Wikipedia had a link to an interview with him that I had posted on my page. It was originally at another site, but was taken down a few ...
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Thursday, October 27th, 2005
Yesterday I saw a blind man on the Metro with a device I'd never seen before. I figured it was a Braille e-book reader, but when I asked him, he said it was a PDA with which he could read his e-mail. Impressive. I found one on-line by Googling "Braille ...
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Tuesday, October 11th, 2005
This evening I attended a reception at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in association with the International Moonbase Conference. Impressive collection, which included SpaceShipOne. I also saw an I-Max film, Magnificent Desolation, in 3D no less, which was quite inspiring. It gave credence to the expression "if they can ...
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Wednesday, September 21st, 2005
The marketing campaign for the new season of Curb Your Enthusiasm is brilliant: Deep inside, you know you're him. For me, maybe not that deep. I just had a Larry David moment yesterday, though it's not worth the typing effort to explain it.
In other extremely inane news, I'm pretty sure ...
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Monday, August 29th, 2005
The best bumper sticker I've seen in a while. It was on a car parked on the same street as this blue pick-up that has the most annoying, whiney, and undeservedly self-rightous bumper sticker I've ever seen: "I want my democracy now!" I don't know which is worse, the "my" ...
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