Rule #207: If you fail to ask if she has a kid and she later drops this information onto your lap, you don't have a right to feel cheated. You should have asked.

could we please hurry the freak up with approving the paper?*

* if you're reading this, it probably isn't directed at you.

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Contra my collaborator ZB, I don't think that my MIPS paper will be a good "bedtime story" for GR. It may put him to sleep or give him nightmares. As long as I get comments back I'll be happy.

Yay! The only thing that can save me now is for the department to do what they promised to do in my acceptance letter: financially support me as long as I am a student in good standing. I know it's not their fault that the higher ups at UCLA think that finding evidence for terrestrial planet formation isn't as interesting as, say, the effect that ( Read more... )

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I'm a gonna buy me a Triceratops and cruise it up and down the road.

Saw that movie when I was six years old. Last night, after watching "Born into Brothels" (great documentary everyone should see) I found the entire 'Flight of the Navigator' movie on youtube and watched it. Ah...brings back the memories. I liked it much much better than ET.

I'm pulling this from an email I just sent. The email was initially one of those 'hi, how are you, haven't talked to you in a while' notes. However, it quickly devolved into a mini essay on something I was staring at all afternoon (keeping me from finishing my spectroscopy paper ( Read more... )

This is a trial run at my argument against Richard Dawkins' argument for why God is highly, highly unlikely to exist. It may be edited a bit tomorrow (as I'm sleepy now), but here's the gist of it. If you have any Kantian background it would surely help as well ( Read more... )

I just finished the section of The Critique of Pure Reason that Kant considers one of the most important, namely that where he discusses the "Antimonies of Reason". In this section Kant poses four dilemmas for reason: ones of causality, necessity, free agency, and unity/division. The goal of the section is to show that reason necessarily leads to ( Read more... )