Monthly Archives: November 2009

I drove back from Westport today. Somehow traffic seemed to be more of a problem than I recall from previous years. It took 4 hours. Thankfully, I had a good friend to talk to during the long slow trip. I … Continue reading →

My parents picked me up from my apartment, and we drove North towards Swampscott in a rainy mist. In the mist, every streetlamp cast a sodium vapor cone down to the street below. Outside the city the mist grew heavier, … Continue reading →

Imagine a person, looking ordinary and dressed in street clothes, seated in front of a glossy black glass table. Perhaps it is a woman. She sits calmly, waiting to have a conversation with you. You sit down as well, and … Continue reading →

I spent the weekend at Voicelab’s fall retreat, in sight of the ocean in Plymouth. Compared to some, this retreat was all business. We had four rehearsals in less than 48 hours, getting in shape for fall concert. Our last … Continue reading →

I’ve been remiss in not mentioning that Voicelab will have our annual Fall/Winter Concert on Sunday, December 6th, at 4 PM, in Dudley House (technically Lehman Hall). Depending on the weather, we’ll also be singing on Friday, December 4th at … Continue reading →

A few years ago I joined a website called Movielens where you can rate movies on a 5 star scale. Today I rated my 500th movie. That’s about all the movies I’ve seen in my life, averaging 25 movies a … Continue reading →

Weblogs are hard. Sometimes nothing is happening, and there’s nothing to write. Sometimes everything is happening, and there’s no time to write! In the last four days I’ve been fleeced by my car dealership on a brake job, seen a … Continue reading →

On Tuesday evening I went to a “mixer” sponsored by the MIT Science Policy Initiative and the Technology and Policy Program. MIT, unsurprisingly, has a proliferation of programs, societies, and clubs on the topic of science and politics, and this … Continue reading →

I just wrote my first application for a conference. I’ve been making very good progress over the last week, just in time for the submission deadline for ISMRM 2010 (in May!). If accepted, I might get to put up a … Continue reading →