Comments on: Arbitrary Chronological Signifiers

By: B

Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:25:21 +0000

Well, I found a new job, moved across the country, and got engaged. What did you do this year? (On the other hand, I finished an anomalously low number of actual research papers. That should change in 2007, as I’m settled down and back in a groove.)

Replace ‘engaged’ with ‘married’. I’m trying not to correlate my low output of papers with the blogging A belated Happy New Year!

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 18:09:19 +0000

Indeed I do.

By: Charly

Charly — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 10:57:10 +0000

Do you really have Feynman’s desk???

By: Allyson

Allyson — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 22:19:56 +0000

Fair enough.

However, suffer the emoticon.

I just got a copy of the Physics of the Buffyverse, BTW. Signed to me!

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 22:06:21 +0000

Allyson, that was a silent rebuke to the infrequency of your blogging. Unless you post more than once a month, you’re not a blogger, just a regular person.

By: Allyson

Allyson — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 21:33:44 +0000

Um. You met me. WHY AM I NOT ON THE LIST?

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 16:17:42 +0000

Andre, yes, I was only including people I had talked with long enough to gaze into their soul, like our President taught me. Have a biocurious new year!

By: citrine

citrine — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 15:36:34 +0000

Sean,

I appreciate your good wishes! Yes, I’ve been on the job for only one semester. I came here expecting to teach just the General and College Physics courses but there’s enough interest in the subject that I’ll be teaching Modern Physics as well, this Spring!

By: Shakespeare's Sister

Shakespeare's Sister — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 14:03:09 +0000

I am told that people who have met me are regularly asked, “Does she really talk like that in person?”

From now on, I will direct people here so they may discover I am more than an f-word spouting crazy person.

By: Andre

Andre — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 04:35:53 +0000

I believe I also fit the bill for your list. Admittedly, we didn’t speak much but I did enjoy your talk. Happy New Year!

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 02:34:14 +0000

citrine, was that a recent event? Congratulations!

By: eszter

eszter — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 01:20:10 +0000

I am honored to have made the list, even if with these tidbits.:)

By the way, a clear sign that physics education is lacking in this country is the number of times I have to explain to staff at restaurants that you get room temperature water by mixing some really cold water with some really hot water. An alternative is the microwave, of course.;-)

By: citrine

citrine — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 22:19:29 +0000

I got my first full-time faculty position in a community college. Although the folks in this small town are very friendly and are seriously into baking goodies, there’s no one here to talk to in depth about Physics. Many thanks to CV for providing much needed cerebral nourishment.

Sean, your combination of verbal eloquence, observational powers and analytical mind can surely pay greater tribute to Jennifer than to describe her as “seems nice”! Tsk. Tsk.

Also, you managed to snag Feynman’s desk!

By: Chinmaya Sheth

Chinmaya Sheth — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 06:46:23 +0000

Some of my other favorites:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/09/09/alex-vilenkin-many-worlds-in-one/

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/12/14/detectors-101/

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/08/27/identifying-dark-matter/

Happy new year!

By: Phil Plait, aka The Bad Astronomer

Phil Plait, aka The Bad Astronomer — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 03:36:51 +0000

“Jennifer Ouellette of Cocktail Party Physics â€” she seems nice.”

Really? You should reserve judgment until you know her better.

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 02:48:58 +0000

M, there was that, wasn’t there? And also I turned 40. A busy year.

By: PZ Myers

PZ Myers — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 01:29:37 +0000

Oh, no…you could have broken the news about my rather intense halitosis a little more gently and a little less publicly!

I’m going to have to chide you about one comment, though: you realize that now everyone else is going to have to avoid saying that Jennifer Ouellette is “nice” because of the excessive freight of meaning you’ve loaded onto the word. The rest of us are all going to have to saying stuff like “Oh, that Ouellette person seems sorta OK,” to make sure that rumors that we’re carrying a torch for her don’t spread.

By: M

Sun, 31 Dec 2006 23:30:53 +0000

Your engagement announcement.

By: Charly

Charly — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 21:59:08 +0000

The year 2006 was a good year. I changed my major to physics, got a new job as a nuclear physics research assistant, landed a research internship at MIT for the summer, got interested in dark matter and had the opportunity to meet Sean Carroll at my home institution.

Thanks for all these great posts; the nerd inside me craves for more and more. But at some point, you DO need to start writing those research papers!

Wish you all the best for 2007.