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clock | August 6, 2007I will be on the airplane for North Carolina in a couple of hours, and will wrote more about scifoo once I get back (and get some sleep - yes, occasionally, I do sleep). But, for now, the last couple of pictures and some links for you to see what others are writing.
Sunday morning I had lunch with Ed Boyden...
...and Jacqueline Floyd:
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clock | August 4, 2007More pictures from scifoo at Googleplex under the fold - text will come later....
Andrew Walkingshaw
Beth Noveck
Chris Anderson
Josh Knauer
Stephana Patton (who is, btw, listed on Project Steve) and Kaitlin Thaney
Stuart Pimm
Vaughan Bell
Vaughan, Eva Vertes and Eugenie Scott - invasion of polka dots!
Professor Steve Steve checking out the $100 laptop (yes, that is beer he is having...).
clock | August 4, 2007Breakfast time! Professor Steve Steve decided to look around for Googleplex for scifoo celebrities....(under the fold):
Anna Kushnir
Duncan Hull
Eva Vertes and Moshe Pritsker
Greg Bear
Freeman Dyson
James Randi
Martha Stewart
Peter Murray-Rust
Sara Abdulla
clock | August 3, 2007OK, it's 2:45am here, and I have a session at 9:30 in the morning, so, below the fold, just a quick scifoo photo dump....
Getting the fossils ready to transport from the hotel to Googleplex:
On the bus:
Gabrielle Lyon
Paul Sereno
Neil Stephenson
Arriving on the campus and checking in:
Schmoozing and trying the famous Google campus cuisine:
Alex Palazzo and Professor Steve Steve
Andrew Walkinshaw
Corie Lok
Deepak Singh
Euan Adie
Eva Vertes
Gabrielle and Steve Steve
Gabe and me
Eugenie Scott feeds Prof. Steve Steve.
Jacqueline Floyd
Jean-Claude Bradley
Jonathan Eisen
Kaitlin Thaney
me…
clock | August 3, 2007
Statistical analysis of crew-members' deaths on Starship Enterprise, including various risk factors.
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clock | August 3, 2007A month has passed.
It was a steep learning curve, but I think I have climbed high enough on it to be confident that I'll be fine on my own back in Chapel Hill. Being a part of the PLoS team is such an exhillarating experience - there is so much energy and optimism around the office, everybody from CEO to the newest intern living, breathing and dreaming Open Access 24/7.
Not to bore you about the job any more - you will be hearing about PLoS over and over again here - let me, for now, just show you some pictures (under the fold) from the farewell party last night at Jupiter in downtown…
retrospectacle | August 2, 2007How about some Nintendo underwear?
Continued below the fold....
Think Geek has HttPanties
Trouble getting into those panties?
Keyboard pants?
These have the structure of estrogen..
clock | July 30, 2007How do air-conditioners and refrigerators work? Scientific explanations for this can be cranky or patient. You choose.
clock | July 28, 2007Last night I went all the way to Alameda to meet my SciBling Chris Hoofnagle at a place called Lucky Juju. That was great fun!
Lucky Juju is a warehouse full of pinball machines. In addition to Chris' interns at Berkeley, there were also interns from Stanford's Center for Internets and Society there, ACLU of Northern California, EFF, Internet Archive, Creative Commons, and the First Amendment Project. And a couple of us from PLoS. And, of course, Professor Steve Steve, who displayed some real pinball wizardry while singing "See me, Feel me, Touch me, Heal me"....
clock | July 27, 2007Last night, Professor Steve Steve took off work a little earlier and went to Oakland to see the offices of the National Center for Science Education, then went to Berkeley for dinner with the NCSE staff and fans at Eugenie Scott's house. Lots of pictures under the fold:
The logo at the back entrance:
The map of Creationist flare-ups:
Professor Steve Steve admires his official courtroom sketch with Judge Jones at the Kitzmiller trial in Dover, PA:
They have cool toys at NCSE, but we could not find the alleged Steve Steve impostor who is supposed to be there, waiting to be challanged to a duel…
clock | July 27, 2007The Science Idol: The Scientific Integrity Editorial Cartoon Contest by the Union of Concerned Scientists is over and the winner has been announced. Read the interview with the winner, Jesse Springer.
clock | July 26, 2007Michael Hopkin interviewed Al Jean, the executive producer of The Simpsons show, about math and science, sometimes central, sometimes hidden, in the episodes of everyone's favourite show...
clock | July 26, 2007It is certainly possible. Compared to some people I know, I am definitely not. I have read each of the books once (more than halfway through the 7th - so do not give me spoilers yet!) and I have seen each of the movies once. I enjoy them, but do nothing on top of it: no speculations, no obsessions, no additional activity.
clock | July 24, 2007Just came back home from a very pleasant dinner with Matt Nisbet. What luck that our trips to San Francisco coincided so well! Oh, and of course, Profesor Steve Steve was there as well...
clock | July 24, 2007Yesterday, I extricated myself from PLoS for lunch, because I really wanted to go and meet one of my most regular readers and commenters, who goes around here as Michelle. We had a most delightful conversation over lunch at Jack Falstaff and pictures (which, of course, include Professor Steve Steve) are under the fold:
clock | July 22, 2007I guess I am the cheapest of all my sciblings - better get me while I am still alive, as I appear to be pretty worthless as a corpse:$3540.00The Cadaver Calculator - Find out how much your body is worth. From Mingle2 - Free Online Dating
clock | July 22, 2007Then, after all this walking, I finally went to Borders and got myself the seventh book of Harry Potter. But, lo and behold, when I got home, Steve Steve decided he was going to read it first, so all I could do is post pictures on the blog instead:
clock | July 22, 2007Sea lions are a big draw at Pier 39. I have seen them in zoos many times, but this is the first time I see them in their normal geographical setting, as 'un-natural' it may seem. Unfortunately, only a dozen or so young, non-breeders are here right now. The mature adults are at their breeding grounds, further south, and will be back in August, just after I leave. Still, these were interesting to observe for a while:
clock | July 22, 2007Some more pictures. At the time many of those were made, there was no telephone, no movies, no radio, no TV, no computer games, no Second Life. This was the most high-tech entertainment. I wish I could bring back some of those inventors and show them what evolved out of their inventions. Also, how society changed, i.e., what is deemed 'acceptable':
clock | July 21, 2007There is a museum at the Pier with many, many old toys and games found at arcades. All are perfectly functional. Some are more than 100 years old. Here is a sample: