It's official. After several semesters of joking to undergraduates that "Oh, the laser is harmless, just as long as you don't [here is where I crouch down and turn my head, always the same pantomime] try to look straight into the beam to figure out if it's on,*" I was puzzled by our poor signal, and just wanted to see if our optics looked dirty. ( Read more... )

I just needed to stop and say "Hey, what the fuck ( Read more... )

I like text messaging. It has better reach and is often more immediate than email, but unlike calling someone you don't have to totally interrupt whatever it was they were doing just because you'd like for them to please pick up some yogurt on the way home or you just felt like sharing your progress on Professor Layton's Puzzle of Doom #107. ( ( Read more... )

You know you're working too late when you see a domain and wonder "Since when is .corn a top-level domain? And how do I get in on that action?"

Any handy tips on picking your research advisor?

If your mean is larger than all of the relevant data points, then you have failed to find the mean. Thank you, that is all.

Kurt Vonnegut died last night. I feel like I have so much more to say, but I suppose there's really only one thing to say. So it goes.

...but more of an offer. I'm going to London Tuesday, and I'll be there at Christmas, so anyone who wants a one-in-a-lifetime combination London postcard/Christmas card should leave your address or send an e-mail to (connect and arrange the pieces) com gmail katekerr.

Because the last time I forgot, the next day some fuckers flew fucking planes into our fucking buildings.

I got a 4.0. Haven't ever done that in a long semester.

In other news, I'm not dead. I was just busy. Apparently busy enough to have 17 hours of A. Oh my god. I think I'm going back to bed.