from drydem1. Grab the nearest book ( Read more... )

*fret*worry*fret*

The meme: Post seven obscure, favorite books that you think other people should read. Give title, author, and why you think they're good. Ask people, when they comment, to leave the info on one of their favorite obscure books for you to read.
( Read more. Everyone should, after all... )

If you have any friends in New Orleans, please convince them that this is a good time for a mountain vacation? Please?
http://www.noaa.gov/
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WEATHER/09/14/hurricane.ivan/index.html

For anyone out there who didn't come across it on Slashdot:
this essay on essays is defintiely worth reading. It makes some important points about both writing and education.

I'm collecting opinions.

What, in your opinion, is the worst book you have ever read?

(By "worst" I mean badly written.)

Have to be everywhere at once, doing everything at once... unfortunately, I am not a non-unitary wavelet, and cannot disperse quite so readily.

So, the morning begins with yet more quantum theory talks. Every few minutes, the speaker is interrupted by the banging of hammers or screaming of electric drills from directly above their heads. A professor and I both go to investigate, and discover that there are construction workers rebuilding a nuclear lab on the floor above. Apparently, the ( Read more... )

So, my department is hosting a meeting of quantum physics theorists. Somehow, I have been recruited into assisting with this. Thankfully, I'm only responsible for the technological aspects of hosting; the being-polite-to-people is someone else's department ( Read more... )

Does anyone out there have (loanable) a system recovery / boot floppy that has an icesculpture's chance in a fusion plant of working in my lab's Mac IIci?

The boss lost the disk... and the backup... and the backup of the backup.