Tuesday, October 31, 2006

A slippery situation

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I realize that Canberra can be an intimidating city for people who grew up in non-synthetic communities. Despite the size, it is a quiet pl...
Saturday, October 28, 2006

Is this a challenge I see before me?

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I opened my door today to find a gleaming metal hand lying in the middle of the doormat. At first I thought it must have been severed from t...
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Thursday, October 26, 2006

Tactile computing

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Life in the lab is just humming along this month. I think I’ve finally licked the alkali problem, but we won’t get to test until sometime n...
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Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Election time 2 (Senate)

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Incumbent: Robert Menendez (D) Challenger: Thomas Kean Jr. (R) Third Party candidates: the usual mix. The incumbent was appointed to the s...
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Election time (House of reps)

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As an absentee voter, I will be voting this week. So here are my thoughts. But first, a caveat: A while ago, the Bad Astronomer got criti...
Sunday, October 22, 2006

Hawaii earthquake

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Western Geologist and Highly Allocthonous have already weighed in on this, but I figured I might want to float a highly speculative hypoth...
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Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Name Game 3

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I heard back from Thomson Scientific last week. The good news is that an actual human being got back to me. The problem is that he doesn’t...
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Monday, October 16, 2006

Absentee ballots

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Excuse the interruption, but have any of you other American expats out there had trouble or delays in getting abentee ballots? I usually ge...
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