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radio silence

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:25:32 GMT

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...

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:18:37 GMT

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

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:36:20 GMT

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

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:47:34 GMT

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!

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:57:01 GMT

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

leaky pipeline

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:30:41 GMT

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

wahhhh? weird?

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:26:58 GMT

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

busy

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:53:15 GMT

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

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:15:14 GMT

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

stuffs

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:27:43 GMT

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?

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:07:50 GMT

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

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:02:20 GMT

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

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:51:34 GMT

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

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:51:52 GMT

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

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:06:49 GMT

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

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:08:53 GMT

complaints about super slow marathoners

too bad this guy is dead...

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:53:04 GMT

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

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

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:47:25 GMT

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

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:11:01 GMT

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

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:57:45 GMT

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!

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:52:35 GMT

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

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:09:10 GMT

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....

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:53:11 GMT

lots of rain = landslides.

this is bullshit

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:08:45 GMT

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?

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:46:12 GMT

student attacked in UCLA lab quite disturbing.