I’m here…

I’m steer, get used to it. This might need a bit of explanation. “Here” denotes Boulder, while “steer” represents the mascot of the University of Colorado. The last couple of days were mostly spent at Target to liberally furnish my luxurious bachelor pad. So luxurious in fact that the frontal view encompasses the swimming pool [...]

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Boo-hoo-ston

Today is my last day in Cambridge. It’s been one heck of a two-year stay, and the devoted reader might just remember how mildly disgruntled I was to move to these boondocks from the urbane Midwest. Well, all I can say is that the darn place has grown on me. Oh alright! I love it…except [...]

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Yogi’s Beard

I have a problem concerning facial hair: it grows. Alright, it wasn’t much of an issue 2 years ago when I sportingly sported a dense goatee in the spirit of appearing macho during metal concerts. The ruse worked fairly well given that no mohawk-toting tattooed male (or female for that matter) considered molesting me. However, [...]

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Real, Slim, Shady

I’m in Chicago basking in the coolth of the summer sun (14 C in June). This is supposed to be a break of sorts, since I have a dearth of activities in my schedule. Well, that’s not true, since I could very well be reading material for my postdoc. It is also incumbent upon me [...]

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Killed Bill?

David Carradine – he who urged the grasshopper to be patient – is dead. He was the Bill to Uma Thurman’s Beatrix Kiddo in Tarantino’s 2-volume masterpiece. There are a couple of competing theories out there regarding the nature of his death but none of them involve Pai Mei’s Five-Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique. One [...]

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Commencemend

So that’s that then. Two days of Commencement exercises brought 5 years of graduate work to a close. I realise that I’ve cribbed endlessly about the vicissitudes of the “Advanced Degree”. I remember the complaints about the uncertainties associated with the gurukul life. Towards the end, I couldn’t wait to get out of the academic [...]

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Hello World

So after much deliberation, I am back. Sepulchritude has been graciously retired. The nature of his replacement was a highly controversial subject. One option was to abjure blogging altogether. But then, I happened to read some of his old posts and was struck by how brilliantly funny they were. It would have been a crime [...]

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