Happy new year everyone.

Regular readers of this Livejournal will probably not be disappointed that I've not resolved to post more often in 2009.

Good phd comics today.

Chemistry is like cooking ...

... but don't lick the spoon.

It goes a million miles an hour for the last two weeks of the semester, four exams in five days, a hundred exams to grade, late homework, tearful excuses, a hundred final grades to decide ( Read more... )

I’ve decided to use these few words to describe how Jenn and Phil are like sandwiches ( Read more... )

July 17. My summer began the day after the Newtown Tornado, May 18, and it ends the first week of September, when the University re-opens. The depressing fact is, it's more than half over.

I still have to travel - Canada next week, California the week after, two weeks in Germany starting the week after that. Then it's late August.

Depressing.

My friend got a wonderful Valentine's Day gift. In the morning, his wife did a home pregnancy test. She wrapped it up and when he got home, she gave it to him.

It was positive.

They're thrilled. Approx October 25.

The average high and low temperatures in Newtown, CT on January 25 are a low of 22 degrees and a high of 36. On the average, this is the coldest day of the year (in a tie with the last nine days) Tomorrow, the averages change to 23 and 37. Spring is on its way.

Today I got invited to edit a volume of Euler's Opera Omnia. I would recruit my friends, and we would transcribe and translate the correspondence between Euler and the teacher of Emmanuel Kant, one Martin Knutzen. It would be a seriously major piece of scholarship ( Read more... )

So, what do you think as you slide down the interstate on the roof of your truck, the cab gradually compressing until your scalp feels the pavement through the roof?

"Where's my cell phone. I have to call my wife and tell her I'm ok."

I must be in love.

North Korea may have tested a nuclear weapon last night. Curiously, the Korean Central News Agency at http://www.kcna.co.jp/index-e.htm doesn't mention it ( Read more... )