http://scripts.mit.edu/~jeffb/blog Sat, 03 Feb 2007 05:20:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hi again. The following is funny. To me. Maybe you think it's dumb. If so, I think you're dumb. It is an email exchange. First, some background: I am currently growing a beard, which I call my "winter coat." Ok, on to the good stuff. Me: :-{)} <---- haha ... http://scripts.mit.edu/~jeffb/blog/2007/02/03/gbg/ It seems like I go through these cycles where for a while I will hardly get any research done, and then will suddenly start working really hard. It's like I'm a 2-state system: State 1: Go in late, come home early. Take days off. Twiddle around at work, reading news sites or blogs. Uninterested ... http://scripts.mit.edu/~jeffb/blog/2006/07/13/productivity-cycles/ This is kind of old news by now, but yeah, I went to Switzerland. It was my first time to "the Continent." Actually, the entire MIT Concert Choir went to Lausanne, which is on the north shore of Lake Geneva, in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, in order to sing ... http://scripts.mit.edu/~jeffb/blog/2006/06/21/i-went-to-switzerland/ Hi kids. Just thought I would let you know (if you're curious and don't know yet) what happened with my big oral qualifying exam. Yeah, I failed. But the blow is eased a little by knowing that I was (apparently) pretty close to passing, and my advisor thought I did ... http://scripts.mit.edu/~jeffb/blog/2006/05/15/qual-update/ So my bible study group is pretty much awesome. They all got together to give me a "care package" for my upcoming qualifying exam. I don't really know what's up with the Victoria's secret bag. But the stuff inside it was pretty awesome. Chocolate, coffee, Jelly Bellies (yessss), rum ("Break open ... http://scripts.mit.edu/~jeffb/blog/2006/05/06/give-me-sexy/ Ok, show of hands. Who here can say that the first thing that enters their mind upon hearing the sentence "Oh be a fine girl; kiss me" is the classification of stars based on spectral lines? What? Only me? http://scripts.mit.edu/~jeffb/blog/2006/04/26/i-am-a-nerd/ How about how I have more friends at my roommates' churches than I do at the church I've been attending for 2 1/2 years? Weird. http://scripts.mit.edu/~jeffb/blog/2006/04/22/church/ You may know this already, but I am an astronomer. Well, more accurately, I am a graduate student studying astronomy. Anyway, I am now officially published. I'm proud to say that that paper appeared in the April 1st edition of the Astrophysical Journal. My first paper, on April Fool's day ... http://scripts.mit.edu/~jeffb/blog/2006/04/20/i-am-pretty-much-famous/ No, I didn't go anywhere, but I sure did quit posting for a while. Maybe now there's enough backlog of events to give me material to post on for a while. No promises though. I hope I haven't completely driven away all my fans by my long silence. (That's what ... http://scripts.mit.edu/~jeffb/blog/2006/04/01/el-jefe-is-back/ Too bad I'm not Texan. If I was, I sure would vote Kinky Friedman for Governor 2006. "Thankee!" "You're welcome, Kinky." http://scripts.mit.edu/~jeffb/blog/2005/12/03/why-the-hell-not/