Well, I for one have always lamented that nobody reads my papers. It’s true!

On the citation market: Ah, the pp-wave era. But that was nothing compared to the strong/weak coupling duality era, or the black hole state counting era. That’s where my generation made its fortune, you know, and as a reward I get to live the “gentleman physicist” life in Hollywood!…

-cvj

What?! Of course you can say something blogworthy about it! And as for worrying about who will read it — well, I wouldn’t worry, in view of the collapse of the citation market! Nowadays it seems [correct me if my unscientific survey is wrong..] that it is hard to get cited at all, and getting past 10 citations is a major achievement. If I am right about this, then *everyone* is feeling that nobody reads their papers, and they will have to stop worrying about that and learn again the fine old art of taking pride in work well done, which I’m sure is the case for your paper. Sorry if this has meandered a bit but I just heard someone lamenting the demise of the pp wave era….”you could get 50 or even 100 cites with any old crap in those days!” Ah, for the good old days! But were they really so good?

Thanks.

Yeah, I broke my own similar self-imposed rule back when he made some offensive remarks on an earlier post of JoAnne’s. I just don’t understand why he can’t just interact with people in a civilized way like everyone else manages to do here. Sad, really.

Let’s see how long he takes before the predictable torrent of abuse comes….

-cvj

Quantoken, I’m begging you – go away! Clifford writes a nice, non-controversial piece, and you respond with this drivel. I’m tired of reading your nonsense, particularly when it is unnecessarily rude. I can only speak for myself, but you are not wanted here!

I suspect that, rather than respecting my wishes, you’ll respond with your usual semi-incomprehensible, insult-laden fragments of sentences. In any case, I’m done responding to you and won’t be drawn in. But please, please, quit posting here and go bother someone else if you have to!

We now return to regular commenting.

So you’re suggesting instead that I take advice from some random bloke on the web instead? That’s the funniest thing I’ve heard this week so far!!!!!!! Good one.

And no, I did not play your rather silly game, I had better, more important, and more entertaining things to do, such as watching some already very dry paint dry a bit more. In fact, someone else pointed it out in a mature and sensible way, and I thanked them for it in the post.

Ok! It was fun… bye.

Best,

-cvj

“I think that it is safe to say that I’ll get my roofing advice from a qualified professional. Thank you so much for your words.”

Clifford: Do you realize it is almost a universal law that virtually all “qualified professional“s more or less have a sales agenda which is directly associate with their own interests, therefore, if you seek their advices, you should automatically assume that they are biased and many times their opinions are NOT objective or scientific, despite of their professional background.

It’s universally true, whether it is a roof repair professional, a mechandise vendor, a global warming researcher, or a super string theorist. I have meet “qualified professionals” who come to my home and vendoring me $1200 vacuum cleaners, and have been to time share seminars. Of course, according to you, I should have listened to those folks because they are “qualified professionals” in the know, right?

You can be sure I have no vested interest in your roof repair business since I am not a “qualified professional”, so at least there was no bias. And congradulation to you, for having listened to a none-qualified professional for the first time in your life. You did seem to have done the stupid reverse word counting, and discovered the spot where you got the Plank mass wrong, although it did took you, on the slow side, a little bit over one hour to do that

Quantoken

With all due respect…….I think that it is safe to say that I’ll get my roofing and other financial advice from a qualified professional! Thank you so much for your words.

Move along now. Nothing to see here.

-cvj

Whatever the cost could be, you can simply put it into your mortgage loan and not have to pay cash up front, and save some tax dollars. The investment you make to your roof can be paid many times back by increased market value of your home. Who in the sane mind would buy a leaky house, even if it is $50K cheaper than a normal one? Only those smart ones who figure he can spend $10K to repair the roof, and re-sale the house for $50K more and make some profit out of the deal.

Not to meantion that the damage caused by leakage is much more expensive. As is shown in New Orleans, repairing a levee is very costly, but the damage caused by a leaky levee is way much more expensive.

About Winter hardships: the Southwest has its share…..The rain here was exceptional this last Winter….a leaky roof for me corresponds to flash floods, mud-slides, houses falling into sinkholes, and off the sides of hills, etc in other areas….not good at all for those people. Just as traumatic as things that can happen in Winter snowstorms.

Cheers,

-cvj

“Winter here was hell. More rain than you can imagine. Worried about it again this Winter, as I have a really leaky roof. No fun, I can tell you.”

What’s so difficult getting your roof fixed by yourself, or pay some one to do it, before the winter rain seacon comes? You have a whole summer to do it, and it does not involve any high tech.

Talk about winter as hell, you should really be blessed that you live in a place where there is natural air conditioning all year around. This winter will be hell for many people living in New England or Mid West. During a normal winter they would be paying a dear price just to keep the room warm. It is expected due to the Katrina related fuel shortage, the heating oil cost would be many times more over. It’s going to be very very miserable. People in the cold areas, you’d better start to stock up supply now, or fortify up your house, or maybe start to dig holes underground to escape the cold weather.

And comparatively, certainly Clifford’s leaky roof would start to sound almost like a heaven.

Winter here was hell. More rain than you can imagine. Worried about it again this Winter, as I have a really leaky roof. No fun, I can tell you.

Actually, I love doing stuff like that to clear my head.

For a while on Saturday I was out there “clearing brush”, in the words of everybody’s favourite hardworking hero president.

-cvj

But ya, like Jill said….

You might of liked stacking and splitting approx 6 cords of wood to help you think on your writing? Getting ready for those winter months?:) My wife (what a trooper)and I, envy people who live in those warmer climates like you do.

Hmmmm… maybe this is a story for me to write on good wood burning stoves?

Cheers,

-cvj

Cheers,

-cvj

P.S. *Kidding! See this earlier post, which might help explain. Further demonstration can be arranged if still not clear….