A dark cat just ran across in front of me on my bikeride into DRL on this mild Friday evening, May 13th.

November 6, 1995:
"What am I after...? What do I want to do with my life--do I want to spend a lifetime on physics? ...I feel so inexperienced at life ( Read more... )

I need to figure out what the heck I want to do after I graduate, which will be about a year from now...sooner than I thought ( Read more... )

Yesterday morning, before my oral exam, on my radio alarm lock, NPR was talking about acting at what it takes to be a good actor. They were saying how it takes some intelligence and such, but

"acting is not, after all, brain sugery or physics"

I laughed like a crazy person...

I must remember: if growing up were easy, it would be boring ( Read more... )

A moment of silence for Arthur Miller...

whose "Playing for Time" helped give language to my concept of the fear of death.

I just read "Don't think of an elephant!" by George Lakoff. A very interesting book; I highly recommend it. Naturally, it makes me want to learn more about cognitive science and linguistics. Reframing might be helpful in teaching and outreach--in overcoming people's misconceptions about science--as well in politics.

Normally these sort of ramblings would go in my private diary, but since it’s break, I’ll try including a bit of history and posting it here for the curiosity of others ( Read more... )

"You have an unusual equipment for success, use it properly."
-my fortune-cookie fortune from a friend's birthday dinner

Ken actually started reading the book, so I'm gonna let him try to get through it before I reclaim it and reread it ( Read more... )