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radio silence

2010-01-06T23:25:32Z

i seem to be going the way of the bliggityblog. silence!!

just been busy (/injured).

vail for skiing before christmas was awesome!

home was nice, minus the terrible never ending headache that would wake me up in the middle of the night

back in la, had an interview with a weird startup company. have interviews a clemson and wash u. in the next few weeks.

hopefully i'll get more interviews and get a job this spring!!

whooohoo.

long time no post...

2009-12-17T20:18:37Z

been really damn busy. was in wyoming for a couple of days interviewing. headed home..had to work... then turn around and go to Penn State a few days later.

overall, both of my interviews went really well. i felt confident. and not once did i feel like crying =). thanks to everyone who helped me with my talks etc!!! i think i might get a job this year!!

now i'm in the airport waiting to go to vail. we've been here for a while. unfortunatley, they are changing aircraft (or maybe fortunately) so it'll be another hour.

dan has finally awoken and wants to use the computer.

later

wyoming

2009-12-08T05:36:20Z

i am in wyoming. is is -4F here. damn cold. my interview went well today - my talk was waaaayyyyy better than last year! i felt good about everything today!

i've got about 10 more meetings tomorrow. and im totally relaxed about them.

then i head back to LA tomorrow night (weather permitting)... otherwise i might get snowed in here for another day.

also a big congrats to dan. he is now dr. dan!! whoooohooooo

weird

2009-11-26T02:47:34Z

my grandma quit smoking 3 weeks ago. she decided cigarettes were too expensive. and just stopped. she just missed the motion of moving her hand to her mouth and lighting the ciggies so she said the first few days she would just go get a glass of water instead.

weird!!!

and on a different note... really good party crashers, crashing the state dinner last night

john muir papers cool!

2009-11-24T15:57:01Z

university of the pacific has a digital collection of John Muir's papers and drawings etc really neat!!!

leaky pipeline

2009-11-23T21:30:41Z

for women in science a recent report from a thinktank...

wahhhh? weird?

2009-11-20T07:26:58Z

caster semenya gets to keep gold medal and prize money and gender tests remain private. how much was the prize money????

busy

2009-11-19T00:53:15Z

1) we can buy a a ski resort in utah if we can roust up a million bucks or so

2) interesting article on paternity in the NY times i had previously heard some statistic about how a ridiculous number of men were NOT raising their biological children... but who knew they could get screwed into continuing to pay for them once they figured that out!!

cool

2009-11-16T15:15:14Z

buried treasure in the form of scotch on the south pole! perhaps we should start an expedition!

stuffs

2009-11-11T23:27:43Z

i have 2 interviews (so far) hopefully there will be more!

Wyoming (Dec 7-8), Penn State (Dec 14-15)

also this is pretty cool
a cheap "wag bag" for people in the 3rd world that turns poop into fertilizer in ~2weeks

annyoing, and illegal?

2009-11-08T04:07:50Z

house limits abortions in federal health care plan HELLO. since when are the federal government and conservatives going to "get their hands out of women's vaginas"??? (as so eloquently put by K.F.)

thwarted... why i should not get up before 11am

2009-10-31T18:02:20Z

doooh. i went to change my sample in the XPS. well. the damn key they gave me (which I hadn't tried until today) doesn't work.

then i went to pick up the painting i had framed. and despite the fact that the website says they are open from 10am - 6pm on saturdays... they don't open until 11.

i give up.

disturbing stuff

2009-10-29T18:51:34Z

girl killed by coyotes while hiking .... this is in canada --- j.d. and i saw a coyote running around san pasqual @ sierra madre last week while we were out running.

and

severed feet wash up in British Columbia

tristan da cunha

2009-10-28T20:51:52Z

is the most remote inhabited island in the world. i heard it on "the world's" geo quiz today.

i wonder if we can go visit?

yet another

2009-10-23T20:06:49Z

this has been the week of running articles!!

barefoot running, is it better or worse for you than shoed running? - there's no good answer

another one for the runners

2009-10-23T19:08:53Z

complaints about super slow marathoners

too bad this guy is dead...

2009-10-23T06:53:04Z

he did a big service to the world: long term contraception

it's okay... i don't need my toenails

2009-10-23T06:47:25Z

ultramarathoner's who permanently remove their toenails to help the athletic pursuit.... maybe some of you need to consider this =)

it seems that another solution to this would be to not wear shoes...

photoshop bobbleheads

2009-10-21T03:11:01Z

now women in ads are being photoshopped to look like real life bobbleheads and the brits want to put warnings on photos like cigarettes.

i agree that the media presents a lot of unrealistic images to the world for women to try to live up to.

internet security

2009-10-19T14:57:45Z

so in 2006 and 2007 i got a few emails (that were real) addresses to SOME OTHER girl named mary laura in some spanish speaking country (i think venezula).

Anyways, today i got in spanish a "reset your password" email from google sent to my alternate (caltech) email.

Anyways, i did NOT click on that link. but did change some of my info. then i realized google basically owns my life. so i think i will start changing my password monthly.

yay!

2009-10-16T05:52:35Z

the uc regents are being less stupid, and taking the extra fees for business and engineering students off the table for now

surfing doctors from SLO test out wetsuits duuh they should've gotten me, a surfing doctor - with limited extremity circulation, instead!

interesting stuff

2009-10-15T04:09:10Z

1) driving to ucla today i heard this piece on airtalk about barefoot running i thought the nightwalker in particular might enjoy it

2) artificial reef creates sweet surf

i have so much work to do. and so many applications to submit. life is tough.

let the landslides begin....

2009-10-12T22:53:11Z

lots of rain = landslides.

this is bullshit

2009-10-12T07:08:45Z

uc's want to charge business and engineering majors more for majoring in those fields... fucking idiotic. they should charge the liberal arts majors an "idiot" fee for choosing an job which makes them virtually unemployable.... and the reason engineering professors make more $$ is because they bring in external funding in the form of grants etc.

crap.
just like the rest of my life.

annie le redux?

2009-10-08T20:46:12Z

student attacked in UCLA lab quite disturbing.