Why I think Oprah should promote My Ambulance Education. It has all the characteristics she tends to promote. In it there is a great human interest concerning people helping people. There is a solid foundation of the common man working to improve his life and overcoming adversity. This is overlaid in it a touching love [...]
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Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday My Ambulance Education. One year ago today My Ambulance Education was published by Firefly. All I can say is that it is still an education.
A Bachelor’s Cookbook
Why is cast iron so appropriate to bachelors you ask, well it is because you really aren’t supposed to WASH it. What is more perfect than that for us disgusting non-neat freak bachelors than a pan that you can just wipe out and call clean.
The Story of the Datum
There is no better feeling in science than to see weeks of planning a new experiment come together in one day’s work to produce data. To be more correct, one datum. We’ve been working for weeks building a prototype, and developing the experimental conditions in which we could test the prototype. The test conditions were [...]
Many questions: one answer about careers in science.
Can someone please tell me what type of job is there that can never be outsourced, but is present in every country in the world? What is the profession where the whole world is united in one language and one goal? When can you be paid to travel to some of the most beautiful places [...]
When does one consider themselves ‘finished’ in life?
I’m 48 years old and I do not want to or plan to wind down my life. By many standards I guess I can be considered successful but I want more. Mind you, I’m not unhappy, but rather not done yet. I see people who are my age counting time to retirement and coasting in [...]
How to compress a 1.5 hour meeting into 10 minutes.
So I’m sitting in a meeting but it is not a meeting. The clock reads 1:04 and the meeting should have started at 1:00. No one else is here, so I check my calendar to ensure that I am in the right place. I’ve got the right room and right time but am alone nonetheless. [...]
Geeks at play are geeky.
Ever wonder what esoteric erudite academics do to challenge ourselves? No, I guess that is not a burning question on society’s psyche. But, I’ll enlighten you anyway because it is entertaining in a juvenile and jovial way. I was with a group of junior researchers in Oxford England and we were comparing our academic conquests [...]
Writing strategies and writers’ block.
With the eclectic mix of writing tasks, I have ended up with different writing strategies to get the job done.
China trip and scientific conference on a cruise ship.
I say that I am a geek amongst geeks with pride.
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