“Who are you in the silence between your thoughts?”
-Gil Fronsdal

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My vacation and my trips to New Orleans and Seattle are are over. I arrived back in Baltimore yesterday, and made my way through the cold, wind, and rain to the lab today.
Hopkins has an “intersession” period at the beginning of January, affording me a brief break from classes. Assuming I passed Models of the [...]

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I’ve yet to see a cockroach in our new place, though my roommate Sam has seen one. I have, however, seen two house centipedes. If you read the Wikipedia article (from that link) you’ll find out that they eat all sorts of undesirable house critters, including the aforementioned cockroaches.
They’re basically not dangerous to humans, [...]

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You may have heard me complain about the Intelligent Design movement, what a load of bunk it is, and how much damage its proponents are doing to scientific understanding and progress. However vast and harmful that may be, in degree it doesn’t hold a candle to firebombing people’s houses, bomb threats, and the other nastiness [...]

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I didn’t get much done today. Reviewed the comments on my prospectus draft, switched it to LaTeX (I should have just used that in the first place), took care of a bunch of Monday-logistical type stuff, and did my weekly review since I missed it Friday.
I leave work early on Monday for my meditation group, [...]

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