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Continue reading →: Something to ponder
A quote from this NPR interview with musician Laura Gibson caught my attention last weekend. About 5 minutes in, she says: … erring on the side of confidence. I wanted to look back and see any failures that I made were failures of risk rather than failures of timidity. There’s…
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Continue reading →: Springishness
The snowdrops are nearly done blooming. The daffodils have been up for about a week. The crocuses are coming up. I haven’t seen the Siberian iris yet, but I expect it any minute. This caught my eye as I left the house this morning. Then I looked closer, and ran…
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Continue reading →: Everything you suspected
Everything you suspected about what government employees do on those pesky federal holidays is true. We laze around in our jammies, performing unnatural acts. See?
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Continue reading →: Highly relevant information
Between the post office, national research programs, the quirks of training robots, and an outbreak of zombies, I’m still swamped. But I still save you goodies, just so you know I haven’t forgotten you. Thematic but medieval cartoons. This was yesterday. That’s a warm, early bed, but yesterday was February…
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Continue reading →: A tiny intersection
I use the statistical software language R extensively at work: all my data analysis and graphing is done in R. I have a couple of software packages in the R archive, and have published peer-reviewed papers on those R packages. And so everything starts to look like a nail… I’m…
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Continue reading →: A brief but shiny digression
Michelle says that she likes photographing reflections in windows. Me too! I was going to leave her a comment, but decided to share it with all of you. It looks like most of my library of weird city photos are not on Flickr, but here are a couple: We now…
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Continue reading →: From silk to ships
All kinds of things going on around here. But those will have to wait a bit: today is for weblink catch-up. Silk science is hot. Recent news releases include transgenic silkworms that spin spider silk, and using silk as a framework for growing new heart cells. Chris Petty is doing…
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Continue reading →: Well then
That was helpful, not that I give myself any credit for it. Although it’s likely that some of the five hundred or so people who visited one of my sites yesterday didn’t know much about SOPA/PIPA, and maybe they clicked on the EFF link and learned something. But you know…
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Continue reading →: Don’t be alarmed
If this site, in its entirety, is down tomorrow. SOPA and PIPA are utterly appalling pieces of potential US legislation, and would likely destroy the internet as a community. Not that I expect my tiny participation in tomorrow’s blackout campaign to have any effect, but I want to add my…
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I’ve been doing stuff with string for quite some time, and describing it to others online since 1996 or so at Phiala’s String Page.
I also do some science and write some fiction.
I’m Phiala most places on the internet.
