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One more month...
At this point the grant proposal (or BFGP, as I'm going to refer to it from now on) has most of a first draft done... now we get to spend the next month improving the text, hacking out dead areas, making sure it's all consistent, and such. This whole grant proposal is a really tangible brush with the downside of academia -- constant funding ( Read more... ) -
What did they do to megatron???
Someone posted some pictures of the new Megatron design for the transformers movie. My levels of expectation are rapidly dropping... -
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Sara and I were up in Michigan this weekend, and arrived back in Urbana this evening... to a horde of undergrads moving in ( Read more... ) -
Some Friday quotes
To push the comparison with popular tale and popular romance a bit further, we may note that the measure of artistic triviality of works such as "Sir Degare or even "Havelok the Dean is their casualness, their indifference to all but the simplest elements of literary substance. The point is that high genre does not certify art and low genre does ( Read more... ) -
More book meme
One book that changed your life:
David Brin's The Uplift War
One book that you've read more than once:
Snow Crash
One book you'd want on a desert island:
The Name of the Rose (I might actually be able to finish it)
One book that made you laugh:
Terry Pratchett's The Fifth ElephantOne book that made you cry ( Read more... ) -
Book meme
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Quizzical goodness
Hmm... benevolent leader. Sounds like I ought to run off and found a totalitarian state or something :-/
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