{"id":3704,"date":"2009-12-03T21:54:38","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T04:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=3704"},"modified":"2009-12-03T21:54:38","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T04:54:38","slug":"today-i-cant-think-of-a-decent-blog-post-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2009\/12\/03\/today-i-cant-think-of-a-decent-blog-post-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Today I Can&#039;t Think of a Decent Blog Post Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in D.C, attending the sorters meeting for the APS March meeting.  Traveling in early December is always nice as the planes seem to be empty (*stretch*) and sheesh, it&#8217;s downright balmy here in D.C.  Now I&#8217;ve absconded to a second rate hotel in the middle of what I can only guess is somewhere near the mythical land of suburbia, since the place is surrounded by office complexes, watching the civil war (no, not that civil war, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Civil_War_%28college_football_game%29\">that one<\/a>.)<br \/>\nThings I&#8217;ve been thinking about when I&#8217;m not obsession about my latest research:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Has anyone ever tried sending a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prop.org\/\">prop<\/a> to a conference?<\/li>\n<li>Because I hate advice columns about graduate school I am happy to point you to Luis von Ahn&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/vonahn.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/advice-on-grad-school-applications.html\">advice on graduate school applications<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Next thing you know, xkcd will be drawing <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/669\/\">Spherical Cows<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Fafblog <a href=\"http:\/\/fafblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/life-on-earth.html\">contemplates<\/a> the Pauli paradox.<\/li>\n<li>On twitter I was asked &#8220;do you think entangled angular momentum states provide any advantage for QKD?&#8221; to which I had only FAIL in response.  Opinions?<\/li>\n<li>A very cool volcano picture.<\/li>\n<li>Oh, and happy birthday to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ellen_Swallow_Richards\">Ellen Swallow Richards<\/a>, even if you did go to the lesser Tech school<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in D.C, attending the sorters meeting for the APS March meeting. Traveling in early December is always nice as the planes seem to be empty (*stretch*) and sheesh, it&#8217;s downright balmy here in D.C. Now I&#8217;ve absconded to a second rate hotel in the middle of what I can only guess is somewhere near &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2009\/12\/03\/today-i-cant-think-of-a-decent-blog-post-title\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Today I Can&#039;t Think of a Decent Blog Post Title&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[33,34,50,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geology","category-go-ahead-waste-your-time","category-off-the-deep-end","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\/3704","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=3704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}