{"id":1268,"date":"2006-07-06T08:51:16","date_gmt":"2006-07-06T15:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2006-07-06T08:51:16","modified_gmt":"2006-07-06T15:51:16","slug":"back-from-outerspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2006\/07\/06\/back-from-outerspace\/","title":{"rendered":"Back From Outerspace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posting has been low because I&#8217;ve been (1) camping on a ferry going through the inside passage in Alaska (where I spent my time doing lots of perturbation theory), (2) camping south of Mt. Rainier, and (3) celebrating the 4th of July.<br \/>\nIn other personal news, I&#8217;m in Nature!  Okay, well not quite, but this website was somehow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/2006\/060703\/multimedia\/50_science_blogs.html\">listed<\/a> on a list of fifty popular science blogs.  Like all such listing this certainly is Macbeth (you know, &#8220;full of sound and <del datetime=\"2006-07-07T16:05:37+00:00\">furty<\/del>fury, signifying nothing.&#8221;)<br \/>\nOh, and as of July 1, 2006, I am no longer a &#8220;Principal Research Scientist&#8221; but instead am a &#8220;Research Assistant Professor&#8221; in the department of computer science and engineering here are UW.  I think this means that Scott can no longer officially use me as his physicist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=17392898&amp;postID=115075513353298583\">punching bag<\/a> (although I must say I am certainly happy to oblige)?  This is, of course, good news.  The only drawback that I know of right now is that when I fill out my tax forms next year I will no longer to fill out my occupation as simply &#8220;Scientist.&#8221;<br \/>\nNext week I&#8217;m off to Bell Labs where I&#8217;ll be talking at a meeting called &#8220;Quantum Information Meets Nanotechnology&#8221; so I promise to have real quantum content next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posting has been low because I&#8217;ve been (1) camping on a ferry going through the inside passage in Alaska (where I spent my time doing lots of perturbation theory), (2) camping south of Mt. Rainier, and (3) celebrating the 4th of July. In other personal news, I&#8217;m in Nature! Okay, well not quite, but this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2006\/07\/06\/back-from-outerspace\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Back From Outerspace&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-meet-center-center-meet-self"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}