No Internet?!?

Charter broadband is down right now, so I'm dialed in to the campus network. I never thought I'd be going back down to dial-up. I'll bet there are a lot of angry students tonight!!

Meaningless Blogs

It occurs to me today that I read a lot of interesting, but overall meaningless blogs. It's great to keep up on news and technology, but what about advances in science and academia? Are people blogging about this also, and I just haven't found it? I've blogged in the past about how hard it is to keep up with all of the various media we have available today, especially in the context of having too many books to read ;) Maybe the blog/rss model could be extended to the academic world, where we can all quickly and easily see what new ideas and findings are out there. Perhaps this would make academic progress less predicated on "who you know" and more on "what you have to say.

Addicted to Green Day

After years of being a Green Day hater, I'm absolutely addicted to American Idiot. No, I mean it's serious! I listen to the entire album nearly every day. Something like this hasn't happened since Garbage Version 2.0 (not in the iTunes store?!). I can't remember the last good concept album...or for that matter, a popular song with a catchy tune and chord progression. Give it a listen, or better yet give it two. You might be singing for days or even weeks.