Sasha and I are exploring Boston. Right now, we are in the Stata Center at MIT. As I find WiFi hotspots, I am uploading preliminary photos from my iPhone to my Flickr feed. Better photos from the 5D will come later.
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If I start it playing right as I leave my front door, I can listen to both acts of H.M.S. Pinafore during my morning commute. The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company has a good recording from 1989.
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Today, I heard back from the first of the nine doctoral programs to whichI applied. I have been accepted to the PhD in Political Science program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I am going to wait and see what results I get elsewhere before deciding what to do, but this is definitely encouraging.
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On my way back from getting a chest x-ray done, I saw a demonstration while waiting for a streetcar. It seemed to be Ryerson students petitioning the provincial government for lower tuition rates. I doubt they will have much luck with that, given the mood of austerity, but it’s good to see people making an [...]
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Finding my way to a new building, it struck me that two major strategies are possible in urban pathfinding. You can try to follow the most efficient path or you can try to minimize your odds of getting lost. Call those the ‘efficiency’ and ‘reduced risk’ approaches. Each has some level of appeal. Nobody wants [...]
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I’ve noticed something that is both odd and somewhat rational: I find that I feel much sicker after I have seen a doctor and had them share my concern. Before seeing a doctor, I always have a nagging sense that I am going to see them about something excessively trivial and they will feel as [...]
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The combination of grossly insufficient sleep and mild snowfall has produced a morning of havoc. My normally-hour-and-a-half commute became two and a half hours, with people crammed cheek-by-jowl in a streetcar with totally fogged windows, lurching among confused drivers. Then, I forgot my (quite durable and expensive) umbrella somewhere on the subway or in a [...]
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