( Dr. Clay Still in the Antipodes )

( Dr. Clay in the Antipodes )

Samoa was great. I'm now in a hotel in Auckland, it's 9am and I'm about to go see Hobbiton.

Tue 2 Nov: LAX to Samoa
Tue 9 Nov: Samoa to Aukland
Sun 21 Nov: Christchurch to Sydney
Mon 13 Dec: Perth to LAX

Still have to book the domestic US and domestic Australian flights. And the rental cars, and the accomodations...

ETA: So I don't need a visa for Samoa or New Zealand, but I do for Australia? What kind of country is this?
ETA2: Yes, ( Read more... )

750ml of Green Chartreuse: $48
"      " Luxardo Maraschino: $22
"      "     Bombay gin          : $18.50

Total w/tax: $95.
One Last Word requires 42ml of each, so roughly 17 can be made per bottle:

$95/17= $5.59

plus the juice of one lime @ $0.67 comes to

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East Dorm's own Marty Weiner pimping some kind of sweet iPad app after his brother's silly video.

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First draft of my résumé. (Ah, delicious procrastination.) I'd appreciate any feedback. I'm wondering specifically: Is it too filled with astro jargon? Too conversational in tone? Overlong/overshort research descriptions? Am I following the guy I stole the LaTeX template from too slavishly (i.e. do I really need the thesis titles)? Would I ( Read more... )

The Kindle keeps shy intellectuals from meeting on subways. (Warning to zwilichkl: Slate)

This is how that ought to be done.