This week has been pretty hellish, all things considered. I packed up most of my books. Movers took a bunch of my stuff and all of my wife’s gear, leaving a semi-barren shell of a place. I’ve been busting my ass to finish the cable analysis for my Swedish clients, leading to a stressed boss and a lot of data entry and very tedious review (and ( Read more... )

It’s been a while.

I went to Sweden. I met up with Skepchicks in Chicago. I packed up some of my crap for shipment back to the Texas homestead. I started Level 3 at The Annoyance. And I picked up a new hobby: mixology.

Tonight’s fare is from the Mr. Boston guide - the Cuban Special!

1 oz. rum

1/2 oz. triplesec

1/2 oz. lime juice

1 tbsp. pineapple ( Read more... )

Unscientific America from Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum has been getting a bit of buzz and has opened a few discussions about religious accommodationists in the pro-science and pro-secular communities. Here’s my take, with one bad metaphor and minimal vulgarity.

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I was passed the following note tonight:
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The Big Gin and Tonic told me to rewrite this blog post since the fucking browser ate it, even with autosave on. Aside: Don’t write anything you care about in a web browser; it will just break your heart.

Anyway, I’m going to school you on my rules of Twitter. Not rules that apply to you - rules that apply to me. The former would be presumptuous, ( Read more... )

So poking around further, it turns out that the winsome lass from the day before trumps my sorry ass. And anyone who, in pursuit of an MS in EE at MIT, inadvertently irritates campus police with art is WIN in my book. The depths of douchbaggery to which I submerged was not fully known at the time of the dive so I’m dragging my dysbaric self over to ( Read more... )

I have to hand it to Nigel Warburton and his Philosophy Bites interview with Miranda Fricker on (of all things) epistemological injustice. It’s one of those episodes that back in my philistine undergrad days would have made me furrow my brow and make a face like I had smelled something in a barnyard. I find now that I can listen for a whole 5-10 ( Read more... )

Another video instead of a real post:

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Crap, I’m lazy. At least I’m not a disease-promoting bimbette.

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