Friday, May 12th, 2006
Late last August I completed yet another season of the University of Colorado faculty/grad student/staff softball league, defended my PhD dissertation, and left Boulder for Washington, D.C. for a technology & science policy fellowship at the National Academies. In short, that didn't work out, so I began looking for jobs ...
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Saturday, May 6th, 2006
Today I participated in an experiment on the "Psychic Staring Effect," by students in a CU Boulder class, The Edges of Science. Apparently the administrator's beliefs about the phenomenon affect whether it occurs. The professor considered me to be a good skeptic on the issue, and an adequate substitute for ...
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Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006
The best photograph of my final day driving to Boulder goes to the cat at The Dusty Bookshelf in Lawrence, Kansas.
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Sunday, April 9th, 2006
Last night I saw a few acts in the 2nd annual DC Comedy Fest. One set included three stand-up acts, and two of them were actually good, which was a pleasant surprise, as stand-up is pretty tough compared to other forms of entertainment. For example, I can enjoy a local ...
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Thursday, September 15th, 2005
Since my last post, I defended my PhD, left Boulder, Colorado, drove to Maryland via St. Louis and Wheeling WV, and began a ten-week fellowship at the National Adademy of Sciences. Currently I'm helping out with what's known as the "Prospering study".
The program has an extensive orientation on policy-making ...
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Sunday, August 7th, 2005
I was at Target last night looking at the iPods, and three college-age guys are looking for ping-pong balls. "They're seasonal," the Target employee says, while agreeing that it did not make any sense. The guys walk off, wondering where they can find the objects of their desire at nearly ...
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Sunday, June 19th, 2005
Last night I joined my friend Duff and his friends for karaoke at the Outback Saloon in North Boulder. I've been in Boulder for six years, and it's the first time I've done karoke here. (Not including a foiled attempt a few years ago.) The karaoke DJ was great: enthusiastic, ...
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Sunday, June 19th, 2005
I saw him speak last week at the Boulder Bookstore. I didn't know he was known more for his humor than for his fiction writing. I enjoy hearing him much more than reading him, as so much of humor is in the delivery and tonality. He read a story recently ...
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Wednesday, April 13th, 2005
Outside the Duane Library (Math/Physics) are photos of the University of Colorado from its beginnings. The first building was Old Main, which I suppose did not have that name then. I got a strange feeling looking at these photos, as Boulder as I know it did not exist ...
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Thursday, March 10th, 2005
Well, not quite. Surely Boulder is due for a blizzard of sort, but last night I played softball for the first time this year. A double-header, and I pitched for most of the first game, and all of the second. It's slow pitch, so my job is ...
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