All of a sudden, January is almost gone and projects like my Masters thesis seem all the more urgent and overwhelming. I am feeling a bit stressed over it. Not completely floored by anxiety like last year though, which is a vast improvement ( Read more... )

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Recently one of the people who works in my lab put name tags on the plants, so now the plants have names. Hypothetically, if you were in a fairly casual work environment, what would you think if one of the plants had a sticker on it saying, "Hello, my name is firstname" when firstname = your own first name. So you know that your ( Read more... )

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"Je peux communiquer en deux langues, bee-atch." This, to his fellow grad student. I laughed so hard! It totally made my day. :-)

"Halifax is big enough for a symphony orchestra and too small for infidelity."

"Halifax: it's a small town that you can't escape. It's a small town EVERYWHERE."
(on meeting his former employer and the woman he had an affair with in the space of a few minutes in Toronto)

~Marty Burt

"Having in my 20s & 30s been a computer scientist and been involved in actually trying to make electronics behave like a machine, I always think the idea that “everything in the universe is a machine” is rather ludicrous." ~ Nicholas Beale

Nicholas Beale isn't anyone in particular, just a man who co-authored a book with another man about Science and ( Read more... )

I thought those of you pursuing graduate education, or those with friends/family who either have a Doctor of Philosophy or are working towards one, would appreciate this link. I'm not sure it is a permanent one, so I hope you all get to visit it without it expiring!

http://design.caltech.edu/erik/Misc/Doctors.html

www.hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com

This totally cracks me up every time I go to it. Presumably it will lose its novelty value at some point, but for now, I am amused!

I will try to start posting more regularly.

I quite like the drawings and sayings that go along with them on this link that showcases "Edward Monkton's" work. Like this one:

"Let us be lovely
And let us be kind
Let us be silly and free
It won't make us famous
It won't make us rich
But dammit how HAPPY we'll be!"

There are lots more at    www.edwardmonkton.com