Because this came up in conversation yesterday and
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For fans of Ben Kabak (concurrent with me at Swarthmore, best known for his Second Avenue Sagas blog) and/or of the New York Times and/or of making fun of the New York Times: The Times is On It.

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Today's belltower roundsing (a.k.a. All-Transcendent Roundsing 2) was sparsely but sufficiently attended, and while chilly, had probably the best weather we could have hoped for. We got through the following(  list of rounds: )

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We voted and we went to Philcon and we went to the Captain Awkward Philly meetup. And Catherynne Valente was the Guest of Honor at Philcon, or else we probably would not have gone. I would recommend always going to cons that have Catherynne Valente at them, or any other excuse to hear her expound upon her beliefs about society or literary theory or ( Read more... )

Had dinner with
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Following the pattern in which everything I did this weekend was made of fail, I've ended up ceding the date for my planned roundsing to the Gather Rounds crew, since they had apparently been on the verge of claiming the date when I sent out my email. So. 10/13 is a John Krumm thing which I am probably going to. Because John Krumm. 10/20 is mine. ( Read more... )

Just sent an email announcing an "All-Transcendent Roundsing" at my place on Saturday 10/13 10/20. Wherein we sing all the things we want to sing and never get to. I am bringing copies of all the things. Also accepting nominations for undersung transcendent rounds, because what is better than undersung transcendent rounds? We have a vague aversion ( Read more... )

Two years in, our local Asian supermarket - the closest grocery store for a mile, the one that still doesn't sell cheese - has branched out into exotic kinds of eggs. Now along with the hột vịt lộn and fresh duck eggs and salted duck eggs and canned quail eggs, they have free-range organic brown chicken eggs. I wasn't expecting it, so I'd already ( Read more... )

Article about encoding information in the "shape" of photons

Specifically: what do they mean by the word "shape" here? And how do they modify it?

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