Back from Egypt. More on that later

Monday morning. Sitting at McCarran Airport in Las Vegas waiting on a flight to Reno. Free wireless here. Mayor Goodman does some smart things sometimes.

Found this on the web. I was really surprised, even as I took the test I figured I would have a low nerd score. Go figure.



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I should have known. A few of our stakeholders feel that the name "ELViS" for the new visualization laboratory is frivolous. The dying blow came when one said to our president, "I hope the project is not as dead as Elvis." So, it is back to the brainstorming stage for finding a name for our new laboratory. It reminds me of the process it took ( Read more... )

We all knew that Erin and Joe were expecting their son in January. We thought he might be early - maybe in time to be the New Year's baby. But I don't think we really expected him to arrive on Christmas eve ( Read more... )

2. Discovery vs. Invention ( Read more... )

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OK, OK, so it was lunchtime, and I was fooling around on the web, and I took a quiz. I've been around LJ long enough to know that is perfectlty acceptable behavior. But I would never have posted the result here, except that, well, you'll see.....

Perhaps I am taking this job too seriously(?)


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It is hard to believe that six weeks have passed since my China visit, and all I managed to post in that time were descriptions of that trip. I have been so busy on a series of other things that I have not yet followed-through to implement the collaborative framework we agreed on there - something I will have to do soon. The first item is to set ( Read more... )

I am not going to say very much about the historical Chinese sites I visited, in part because I am embarrassed by my ignorance, and in part because, on a business trip, I did not have the time to systematically explore and understand what I saw. It was a catch-as-catch-can proposition ( Read more... )

Sunday morning was for transit to Lanzhou and meeting up with others of our group before business started early Monday morning. Monday and Tuesday were spent in conference with our Chinese colleagues from the Cold and Arid Lands Environment and Engineering Research Institute and the Center for Arid Environments and Paleoclimate Research. After a ( Read more... )