Noted Without Comment
Michael Giberson “Scientists tend to ‘desist’ from scientific research upon marriage, just like criminals desist from crime upon marriage.” (From ScienceCareer.org, found via Truck and Barter.)
Miscellany
Archive Spam …
Lynne Kiesling By the way, if you see spam on the archive posts, I know it’s there. It was one of the reasons for the upgrade. I’ve made sure my permissions are set correctly, and will be cleaning them up.
Welcome to the New Kp Design!
Lynne Kiesling Look what I spent the morning doing … isn’t this spiffy? The dusty aubergine is coming off a little more pink than I intended, but I still think it looks snazzy. Huge, huge, huge snaps go to Learning Movable Type for their tutorials on how to upgrade style templates in 3.2, and to …
Georgeous Pittsburgh Pictures
Lynne Kiesling These pictures of the Pittsburgh skyline from various locations are wonderful. They highlight what a gorgeous city my hometown is! Hat tip to I heart PGH.
Conflicting Signals at the Marginal Revolution
Michael Giberson I?m getting conflicting signals from Marginal Revolution. No, not the disagreement between Alex and Tyler over Deidre McCloskey?s recent lecture on prudence in politics. It?s the The Shangri-La Diet, currently listed under the heading “We Recommend.” Click through to Amazon and check out the author’s name on the cover ? “Seth Roberts, PhD.” …
Tagged in the Meme of Four
Lynne Kiesling I’ve been tagged by Aeon, so here goes (below the fold) …
Liveblogging Arts Blogging on Npr
Lynne Kiesling I am listening live to Hello Beautiful!, the Sunday morning arts show on WBEZ, Chicago’s NPR station. It’s sometimes frustrating (to a relatively dispassionate economist), but almost always interesting conversation about local art, music, architecture, galleries, etc. The host, Edward Lifson, is currently interviewing Terry Teachout and Laura Dimanski at About Last Night …
Why So Quiet?
Lynne Kiesling Yeah, things have been quiet here at KP. I have some cool work stuff to discuss, which I’ll start developing. But otherwise my cool work stuff has been insider pool (for example, learning a computer program that I may use to program experimental environments) that is of little general interest and requires little …
Technorati Advice, Please!
Lynne Kiesling I am soliciting advice from you exceedingly knowledgeable folks out there about Technorati tags and links. I am messing around with tags on posts, but my posts never show up on Technorati searches. The only one that did recently was the Low Sugar one that I copied from Becks & Posh, but I …
Testing Writely
Testing, testing … I am testing posting from Writely . Got the idea from Chris Silvey.