Comments on: Science magazine (hearts) me, redux

By: Melusine

Melusine — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 00:02:51 +0000

Oops, something got nixed: I assume that (-: is either a left-handed smilie or a left-handed compliment.

By: Melusine

Melusine — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 23:59:38 +0000

Blake Stacey says:

I just looked, and what do you know, this has already appeared in The BAâ€™s Wikipedia article.

Thanks for that link–I’ve never read that page on Phil. In fact, it’s interesting how prolific some Wiki-contributors are, and when done well, Wikipedia can be a great source. Phil should “hire” you as a link-fixer-upper: I was unsure of the caption under his picture in the aforementioned article, and looked at his page here and discovered lots of broken/bad links. What I was really looking for was undergrad information–to me that’s more important in many ways than post-grad info, though I’m sure most would disagree.

The bad links are as follows:
COBE, Peter Jokobsen, John Krist, Robert Cumming, Michael Richmond, Pedro Saizar (and the supernova link with him), Goddard, “brown bag lunch seminar”, Jonathon Keohane, LHEA X-Rayu Astrophysics, and John Blondin.

I’m sure Phil is busy, busy, but Friday at Border’s this nice, young employee there, who is majoring in mathematics/education, spent much time with me trying to help me decide which Feynman book (and some others) I should buy; I suggested that he check out BA.com and BAUT, because he has a huge appetite for astrophysics, and QM, et al, and well, broken links just look…you know.

BTW, Blake, your page here has a minor typo. I tried bringing this to your attention a few weeks ago, but you must have missed it. Otherwise, the reading is enjoyable, and written in such a way that we innumerate people can better understand. (-:

Thanks.

By: Gary Ansorge

Gary Ansorge — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:04:14 +0000

Yo, Dude! You Rock!

Gary 7

By: icemith

icemith — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:24:13 +0000

Way to go mate, recognition can be a fickle thing, but in this case, it’s well deserved and good. I certainly enjoy your posts. But you must regale us with your astronomy trip to Aust. to view the Magellanic Clouds after the Supernova of 1987.

Ivan.

By: Melusine

Melusine — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 05:26:52 +0000

So, does clicking on the bigger version help inflate your ego? Just kidding, you mentioned it

Seriously, that’s great to get the recognition…”actually highlights plenty of good science…[as well as] attack[ing] ignorance, antiscience and dubious schemes.” And there can’t be too much of that, right? Thanks for sharing.

By: The Bad Astronomer

The Bad Astronomer — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:01:46 +0000

Actually, NASAWatch didn’t so much break this news as report on it, since the golf company had already put up a web page about it. I think I may have heard it first from NW, but now I’m not sure; it was floating around the web already by then. I think at least one bulletin board had already mentioned it. I usually say when I get a tip from someone, but I didn’t in that case. I’m not sure why! Anyway, if you have a complaint, Bad Astronaut, maybe it would be better to direct it to Science magazine.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 16:42:11 +0000

Congrats Phil!

And to the Bad Astronaut, what exactly was the BA given credit for in that little blurb beyond speaking about the golf ball stunt?