Archive for January, 2006
Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
Jorge Cham's Piled Higher and Deeper is a comic strip about being in grad school from someone who clearly has. Pretty funny if you're acquainted with the micro-world of ABD life. As someone who's looked at dissertations from both sides now, from up and down, and still somehow, ...
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Sunday, January 29th, 2006
Crazy week back at work: We're interviewing, I have new administrative duties, and all the crap of coming back to work after a break. And it was my birthday last week. Blech.
On the postive side, when Oz was named "Kindergarten Citizen of the Week", he carried his ...
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
Web Zen today is Evangelical Zen. Some awesome stuff: Bibleman, Date to Save, Clowning4Christ, Karate for Christ, Recreational Christianity, Show tunes vs. Fundamentalists, The Amazing Jesus of Nazareth, Ten, and Battleground God.
I bow to the zen master.
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Monday, January 23rd, 2006
Back to the working world. Classes started today, as well as a burst of job talks in my department. It'll be a crazy busy couple of weeks. I'm guessing "Podcasts" is the last idle musing for a little while, and it was left over from last week.
(Huey ...
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Monday, January 23rd, 2006
I've carried some kind of MP3 player for quite a while, although I only recently converted from a flash-based player to a hard-disk-based one. But being a good more-or-less early adopter kind of guy, I've been listening to some podcasts since, you know, they were invented.
I have some thought ...
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Sunday, January 22nd, 2006
This is both awesome and stupid. Who knew? Monkeys knew. Peeling bananas from the other end is easier.
Via the always-full-of-worthiness BoingBoing.
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Friday, January 20th, 2006
I f-ing love Molly Ivins. Bob flagged her "I will not support Hillary Clinton for president" for me, in which she sends the clear message to the Dems much like Progressive Blog Digest's recent rant (see my That's my party!): Grow some freakin' balls.
Enough triangulation, calculation and equivocation. ...
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2006
Update for anybody who cares about the God-stuff at Oz's public school: As I think I've noted, a different teacher is more or less in charge of the "morning program" each month. Those for October, November, and December were pretty bad, and we felt the need to send ...
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2006
Yes! A win for the good guys at SCOTUS: Oregon assisted suicide law upheld:
The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld Oregon's one-of-a-kind physician-assisted suicide law, rejecting a Bush administration attempt to punish doctors who help terminally ill patients die. Justices, on a 6-3 vote in which chief justice John Roberts ...
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2006
Recently, some researchers at UNC did a study called the National Study of Youth and Religion, billed as "the largest and most detailed study of teenagers and religion ever undertaken". Since then, the survey results have been turned into a book (Soul Searching : The Religious and Spiritual Lives ...
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