I just found this on a community college website. Unfortunately, it came up pretty high on the Google search.

"Accuracy is determined by the number of significant figures.
Precision is determined by the decimal position of the last significant digit."

Uh... no.

From a job posting:

"Salary is commiserate with experience."

That rather sums up an advanced degree holder's job search, doesn't it?

(Also! The same job posting noted, "Must have strong writing skills." They clearly have a need.)

Still away from internet. Will be back later. Feet tired.

Every once in awhile (maybe once or twice a year), I get a particular kind of spam mail. Not the garden variety debt/personal enhancement/etc kind, the physics kind. Somewhere out there, people who think they've reinvented physics harvest all of the publically listed physics-dept email addresses and try to persuade us of their amazing new ( Read more... )

Her first book is listed on Amazon!!

My contribution? I helped photoshop her author pic (that our other cousin took). ;)

... is the best stuff ever. Mix a little purée in next time you make whipped cream. Pink awesome.

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I've been Google-stalking myself (in various internet identities) in my post-defense "relaxation" period. The oddest thing I've found is that this blog comes up as a critical propagator of that "musical baton" meme that went around in May 2005. See this blog entry for reference. (Yes, it's taken me some 4 years to find this.) In it, I accuse--er ( Read more... )

I tried making this pandan chiffon cake today, minus the pandan. Used suzuno's hand mixer for the eggs ( Read more... )

My artist/crafty friend uminomamori wrote a nice entry about the CPSIA (Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act) which was passed last year. It sounds like a great idea, that all products (clothing, toys, furniture, etc.) primarily intended for children under the age 12 have to be tested and physically marked as lead-free ( Read more... )

The Urban Craft Uprising show is this Friday and Saturday 11-5pm at Seattle Center. I plan on going on Saturday... anyone else?