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Sep 09

A Brief Moment to Say Goodbye

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It is entirely possible that when you read this, the universe will have ended…or been sucked into a black hole…or something.  Right now it’s almost 11 PM on the West Coast which means that they should be turning on the Large Hadron Collider over there in Europe soon.

If you’re interested, this Wired article gives a good account of some the stuff they are hoping the LHC might help to make more clear.

Of course, since we’re all going to die in a slow, agonizing way, it’s probably of little account.

May 07

I am trying not to fall asleep…and failing.

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I woke up at 4 am. Well, the alarm went off at 3:30 and I got out of bed at 4:30 so I’m splitting the difference by claiming 4. This quad venti iced latte ain’t doing it yet…

So today marks the final day of the semester for me. I have an abundant amount of reading to do for my workshop since 1) A crapload of people brought in pages last week and, 2) I fell asleep during the Dodger game last night and didn’t finish. I still have five submissions to read, but I’ll space them out over the course of the day so that should be fine.

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