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The Fearing Tavern: Brightness
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Academia, sports and occasionally motorcycles. Friday, March 22, 2013. A strange juxtaposition -. Today on the way home for lunch I listened to writers almanac, where Garrison Keillor read "The Country" by Billy Collins, a quirky little poem about an arsonist mouse. Yesterday, the NCAA March Madness basketball tournament began (it continues today). Both feature references to shining moments-. In the NCAA tourney, the official theme song is "One Shining Moment", with the chorus.
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The Fearing Tavern: Seat
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Academia, sports and occasionally motorcycles. Monday, June 13, 2011. After our recent move I noticed my motorcycle was looking a bit forlorn. The seat was ripped in multiple places, with tape melting off the cracks leaving sticky trails of adhesive. I needed a new seat. I decided to reupholster it myself. Surprisingly this wasn't a mistake. It was actually rather simple:. 1) Take off the seat, pull out the old staples. 4) Cut the excess about 1/2' past the staples, the end result will look like this.
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The Fearing Tavern: XKCD
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Academia, sports and occasionally motorcycles. Wednesday, August 7, 2013. The full story of this comic includes some awesome attention to detail. So much so it was featured in Slate today. Here is a link to the story which includes an animation with a musical score. I just spent an hour looking at xkcd. August 7, 2013 at 3:51 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Simple template. Powered by Blogger.
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The Fearing Tavern: New Saddle
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Academia, sports and occasionally motorcycles. Monday, May 13, 2013. Labels: What does it mean to locally solve a non-local equation? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Simple template. Powered by Blogger.
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The Fearing Tavern: Google Scholar
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Academia, sports and occasionally motorcycles. Monday, February 17, 2014. The temporarily negative slope in my citation count appears to have been an error, or at best a transient, of google's algorithm. Before today I would never have thought to check it though. Its crazy to think about the difference the recent re-sorting made on my feelings (and maybe the feeling of others) about my career trajectory. Forget google glass, I am scared of google scholar. Labels: this is indeed a disturbing google-verse.
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The Fearing Tavern: Barefoot
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Academia, sports and occasionally motorcycles. Wednesday, September 25, 2013. Over Labor day I read "Born to Run", by Christopher McDougall. It inspired me to finally get some barefoot running shoes. Here is what I got -. Labels: the persistence runner gets the antelope. Maybe I should read Born to Run. September 26, 2013 at 11:44 AM. Definitely. It got me excited to run again. October 4, 2013 at 12:02 PM. This comment has been removed by the author. October 4, 2013 at 12:03 PM.