Have I been asleep while the following argument has sprung up among Republicans: the war on Iraq is right because the death and destruction is occuring in Iraq and not in America. Bush used this argument at least two times and after the debate I saw Giuliani make exactly the same argument. I must have [...]
Go Lazaridis, go Lazaridis, it’s your birthday, go Lazaridis: Canadian Press WATERLOO, Ont. — The man who co-founded Research in Motion and helped create a physics research facility in Waterloo, Ont., criticized the federal and provincial governments Monday for not having “the guts” to adequately fund scientific research. Mike Lazaridis said the governing Liberals in [...]
Name: Dave Bacon Occupation: Postdoctoral Fellow Employer: Santa Fe Institute Number of cars in SFI parking lot with personalized plates starting with the letter “Q”: 2 Beauty of the thunderstorm clouds and setting sun on my drive home after my first day of work: Priceless So who can guess the licencse plates?
Oh where, oh where, has the Quantum Pontiff gone? The Quantum Pontiff has gone to the glaciers: The last few weeks have been hectic: fly from Santa Fe to Los Angeles. Then drive from Los Angeles to home in Yreka (on the Oregon, California border.) Next I drove up to Portland with my mom and [...]
Today is New Year’s Eve…in Ethiopia. So go out and party like it’s 1997…because according to the Julian calendar, thats what year it is. What I like best is that neither the Julian calender nor the Gregorian calendar get the date of Jesus’s birth correct according to most historians (the Gregorian calendar is off by [...]
The title to the email said: “Your Manuscript in: Phys Rev Lett, 2003; 90(15):157904″ so I open it. It started by congratulating me on the publication of paper and saying how much it impressed the author of the email. But my happy little chemical glow was quickly snuffed out by the realization that the whole [...]
Portland is a city of young beer drinkers who like to bike and read books (but, so far, not at the same time.)
Yesterday I visited a childhood friend of my dad’s in Dunsmuir, CA (just south of Mt. Shasta), Alan Berry, who told me a nice fish story involving my dad and gave me a copy of his bigfoot recordings. When I was growing up, I devoured all of the books in the UFO/bigfoot/pyramids section of our [...]
On Friday, September 3, 2004 I ran up Mt. Eddy and tested out my new trail running shoes (spiffy black and red.) Mt. Eddy (9025 ft) is west of Mt. Shasta and offers some spectacular views of Shasta. I ran in from the Parks Creek summit(6850 ft) to the Deadfall lakes and then up to [...]
Well I have a bit of free time until I start my new job at the Santa Fe Institute on September 27. Lets recap the action so far. August 31: Flew from Santa Fe, NM to Los Angeles, CA via Las Vegas, NV. Saw a lady in Las Vegas wearing a shirt which said, on [...]
And today, following yesterday’s long overdue rejection, I got another rejection! I guess once they started classes and realized they had hired someone to teach the classes…well they figured it was time to close the search! The nice thing was that this time I got an email with the subject “Condensed Matter Theroy Search.”[sic] Hmm, [...]
