setting up a donation page for publication charges
RT: have you heard from the reviewer yet?
me: heh not yet :)
me: should I have?
RT: :)
me: I'm not holding my breath to hear back before Jan
me: I'm just glad I can at least put "submitted"
me: and have mailed updates to all the job committees
me: oh wait except BCCP
me: should send them something also
me: SB's email made me laugh
me: so now of course I'm thinking of what to do in near future
RT: good
me: see if I can dust off that CSM thing
RT: am convinced that if it was top priority for even a little while it could get done
RT: the problem is getting it to top priority 
RT: also the other super-C guys and, I dunno, maybe a light curve
study of LVG vs. SVG SNe
RT: look for light curve morphology differences and signatures of CSM
RT: many possibilities
RT: frustrating though, because the only one who seems to have disposable cash around
here is N
RT: what, C has not come barging in
me: so I probably have to just quit if I want to write SN papers, and write them
from a friend's basement -- but then
me: who will pay page charges?
RT: asking for you to fix the nonlinearity in software?
me: oh of course he has
RT: for page charges
RT: consider
me: but after January he doesn't get to tell me what to do anymore
RT: consider crowdfunding
me: what, set up a donation page on the internet? :)
RT: oh yes
RT: do it
me: seriously?!
RT: I want to see you do it
RT: yes
RT: hahah
RT: it would be great
me: is that not what you meant?
RT: yes
RT: that is exactly what I meant
me: LOL :D
RT: there are websites devoted to it
me: that's awesome
RT: mostly for starving artists
RT: etc
me: heheh
me: that would be hilarious
me: "will blog about my science for page charges"
me: hey actually that could be interesting
me: I mean, they have to be getting something in return
me: maybe if I treat it as education
me: say that I'll explain my abstruse work in daily installments if they help pay my
page charges
me: hm
RT: heheh
RT: indeed...
me: the story would draw a crowd too
me: "hi, my boss ran out of money"
RT: hahah
me: "so instead of a starving artist, I'm a starving scientist"
me: lol :)
me: I like this idea
me: this is awesome
me: I would link from the Galaxy Zoo website but there could be issues with that :S
me: man that'd be a great place to publicize
me: but it is probably a bad idae
RT: what?
RT: it'd be awesome
me: well, wouldn't there be ethics issues associated with spamming a publicly funded
website?
me: well hmm
me: how else does one boost page rank I guess
me: hmmm
me: I will ponder this
me: on my walk home
me: and think
me: be back online in a bit
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Someone explain to me why I shouldn't do this. Besides the fact that I probably still couldn't pay my rent this way.