In October of ‘07, I posted about my move to Google Notebook as my primary lab notebook. It has not only continued to serve me well since then, but now serves me even better with the addition of a few features:

Auto-dated notes: I’d be happier if I could opt for auto-timestamps as well, but Google [...]

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My friend Rob has another excellent mathematical post up. It has, in fact, been up since December 14th, but I’m only now catching up with my starred RSS items from last month.
This post is on the nature of infinity and other large numbers, and how we mentally relate to and handle them. Here’s a taste:

[I]f [...]

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In this article, a boy was struck by lightning at lacrosse camp, given CPR and defibrillated three times with an AED, and eventually made a full recovery.
Amazing. AEDs continue to come down in price, and are really racking up an extensive list of saved lives.

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I’ve gotten a lot of strange looks over the last two or three years because of how I carry my cards and cash. I abandoned wallets of any kind because they either (a) more than double the volume of what I’m carrying or (b) they have too much stuff in them. That is, if [...]

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Good to see that he tells it like it is — you won’t hear any mention of this stuff from the administration at Tulane, you’ll just hear a pile of euphemisms, but we (who were or are there) know it to be true:

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