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Brief History of the XX Century

A brief his­tory of the Twen­ti­eth Cen­tury accord­ing to russ­ian web designer:

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<I></I>
<©©©®>
<II></II>
</hiroshima>
</nospace>
<*></*****>
<chernenko/>
<nodrink></nodrink>
</©©©®>
<noeat></noeat>
<B><B>
</XX>

[via lepra]

2nd April, 2010 View Comments


A [PhD Comics] Christmas Reading List... with DOIs

PhD Comics, didn’t include DOIs in their recent bib­li­og­ra­phy of Christmas-related cita­tions. For lazy peo­ple, com­piled list is below:

29th December, 2009 Comments Off


How to Look Productive

Tip #1: Walk fast when on cam­pus and explain to col­leagues that you can­not go out to lunch because you are busy respond­ing to law review edi­tors’ com­ments on your manuscript.

Tip #2: Remind your col­leagues how many stu­dents you teach, how many exams you have to grade, how fright­fully many hours it will take you to grade them, and how grad­ing exams really cuts down the time you can be avail­able for schol­ar­ship, ser­vice activ­i­ties, friends or family.

Tip #3: Send an e-mail inform­ing your dean or col­leagues that you have been invited to speak at the local Rotary Club or the neigh­bor­ing town’s PTA meeting.

Tip #4: Bring mas­sive amounts of work to talks by out­siders and stu­dent events, and make sure to vis­i­bly mark on doc­u­ments — as if edit­ing your own paper or mak­ing com­ments on stu­dent work — in full sight of every­one else in the room.

Tip #5: Get ticked off and behave badly at fac­ulty meetings.

Tip #6: Do not timely answer e-mails from any­one who may be rely­ing on you to show up to an event, help review appli­ca­tions or sched­ule a meet­ing, then get huffy when the meet­ing takes place before you respond to the e-mail.

[via The Chron­i­cle ]

6th December, 2009 Comments Off


Article Submission Script

Below is a pro­to­type script for batch arti­cle sub­mis­sion. Per­haps, one can find it very useful :)

string journal[100] = "Nature", "Science", "PNAS", "PRL" ... ;
string article = "Lee_Xi_Wang_2009.pdf";
int rejected = 0;
int ii=0;

until (rejected)
{ rejected = submit(journal[ii], arti­cle);
ii++; }

28th November, 2009 Comments Off


How To Maintain A Healthy Level Of Insanity

  1. At lunch time, sit in your parked car with sun­glasses on, and point a hair dryer at pass­ing cars… see if they slow down.
  2. Page your­self over the inter­com. Don’t dis­guise your voice!
  3. Every time some­one asks you to do some­thing… Ask if they want fries with that.
  4. Put decaf in the cof­fee maker for at leat three weeks. Once every­one has got­ten over their caf­feine addic­tions… Switch to Espresso.
  5. In the Memo field of all your checks, write “For Marijuana”
  6. Skip down the hall rather than walk… And see how many looks you get.
  7. Order a diet water when­ever you go out to eat…, with a seri­ous face.
  8. Spec­ify that your Drive-through order is… “To Go”.
  9. Sing along at the Opera.
  10. Five days in advance, tell your friends you can’t sttend their party because you “Have a headache”.
  11. When the money comes out of the ATM … Scream ”I Won !.. I Won!”
  12. When leav­ing the Zoo, start run­ning towards the park­ing lot, yelling “Run for your lives! They’re Loose!”
  13. Tell your kids over din­ner, “Due to the econ­omy, we are going to have to let one of you go”.

    And the final way to keep a healthy level of insan­ity…
    Con­tinue reading →

15th September, 2009 Comments Off


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