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…I’d had my camera phone with me when I was in the gas station that had “Lady Bubba” walking sticks for sale. You can build one yourself online, but you should definitely try one out in the aisles of a mini-mart first.
I’ll be rambling around a bit for spring break week so such musings might [...]

Hello, inhabitants of planet Earth.
You never imagined alien life would arrive via snowflakes, did you? Well, the joke is on you. Ha ha ha.
Already we have appropriated one of your primary news sources and we will begin broadcasting out our demands as soon as our Limb Acquisition Engineers find implements more useful than these [...]

I’ve been hyper-aware of how fast time is moving ever since I got to Nashville. Every day I think, I’m in a two-year program…that’s gonna go fast! And I might be wrong about a lot of things in this great wide world, but I nailed that one. Everything has been a blur. I feel like [...]

It’s funny — I’ve lived in Georgia, South Carolina, and Tennessee over the past nine years, but I don’t think much about living in the South. I’ve never been regionally minded because I grew up all over the place. If I identify with any particular region, it’s the region between my ears. The State of [...]

I thought about what to write for a year-end post and realized that the academic calendar puts me more in the mood for year-end musings in May, rather than December. When I tried to figure out which events in 2009 felt important I kept thinking of my road trip through Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, and [...]

The podcast victor, in the Great Road Trip Challenge of December: Car Talk.
The podcast loser: Hmmm…I won’t name it. Maybe me? I’m not sure.
I’m still finishing up my last paper of the semester so I will offer more extensive commentary in the future. I hope everyone’s Decembers are chugging along nicely. Once this paper [...]

Just wanted to point out a fascinating article by Joel Achenbach at The Washington Post: The Wow Factor. (Apologies if you have to register, but it’s free and quick.)
The article is basically a layperson’s guide to interpreting recent images from the Hubble Space Telescope, which received repairs, updates, and new equipment last May. The last [...]

There’s been a lot of swine flu talk in the news lately — Five Confirmed Cases on Campus! Half the Nation Could Get Swine Flu! — so in honor of the End Times being upon us, I thought I’d post a brief series of photos from my wanderings around Nashville. I should point out that [...]