October 2007
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No respect
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I gave the last lecture in my Fourier class today. I think the course started alright, but I seemed to be losing the students for the last few lectures (not helped by the fact that three of the ten hours of the course were 5-6pm on Fridays, but a good workman doesn’t blame his tools…).…
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Scooped
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This week I had one of those disheartening experiences that happens every now and then in science: a collaborator and I discovered that something we had been working on has already been done. The competing paper had been out for about a year, but we missed it (even more embarassingly, I knew about the paper,…
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Update
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Too busy for much blogging for the next few weeks. In the meantime: First, my grad students: Goodbye to one just finishing, hello to my new one, congratulations to the one who just transferred to official PhD-student status, and, finally, to the one staying on as a postdoc! I’m excited that I’m able to still…
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Apocalypse or synchronicity?
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End of the world or age of Aquarius?
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Space-age rapping
Also in honor of Sputnik, the best lyric of the year: “Driving herself crazy/ like that astronaut lady“, from the Common/Lily Allen collaboration, “Drivin’ Me Wild” (deconstructed by the Guardian here).
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Is this still the Space Age?
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Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the dawn of the Space Age, measured from the launch of Sputnik. Google has a good celebratory logo in its honor: Now that we’re supposedly in the Information Age, does that mean the Space Age is over? I do spend most of my day on the internet — but…
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Summer Break
Well, Summer break is over, the days are surprisingly short already, the sky is rarely clear, and the students are back. Warm-weather highlights ranged from the intellectual pleasures of my visits to Portugal and Chicago, to the rather more visceral ones of Sonic Youth’s Daydream Nation at the Roundhouse, The Hold Steady at Shepherds Bush,…
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