sounds much likeour field, but even worse. there's about a hundred papers a day get posted to the preprint servers and i'm meant to keep up with them all.
like hell.
instead i've chosen to work on controversial fields, which gets me a reputation amongst those who actually bother checking the archives rather than just writing shit and citing themselves (about five people worldwide) as being a dangerous person to employ if you want a good image for your department, and also some very angry emails from people whose feet i tread on.
it's fun. :)
(like hell.
instead i've chosen to work on controversial fields, which gets me a reputation amongst those who actually bother checking the archives rather than just writing shit and citing themselves (about five people worldwide) as being a dangerous person to employ if you want a good image for your department, and also some very angry emails from people whose feet i tread on.
it's fun. :)
boris the spider,
Sat 24 May 2008, 20:43,
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Ah yes.One of my long-term projects is to write a paper that (not intentionally) does a hatchet job on a very famous (and now deceased) professor.
It's a hard life...
Mind you, a chunk of my publication record is Acta Cryst. Sect. E which is only worth more than loo roll for the image editing that goes into it.
(It's a hard life...
Mind you, a chunk of my publication record is Acta Cryst. Sect. E which is only worth more than loo roll for the image editing that goes into it.
Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...",
Sat 24 May 2008, 20:52,
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I've started making nicer figures tooB3ta in helping academic careers shocker! :)
I've only been doing it for talks so far but I'm going to start putting much better figures in my papers, too. Just because it's theoretical physics it doesn't mean it actually has to be boring, grey, drab rubbish.
Next task: let's try and slip some meme into our next papers. Not Goatse, something a bit less well known. Any ideas?
(I've only been doing it for talks so far but I'm going to start putting much better figures in my papers, too. Just because it's theoretical physics it doesn't mean it actually has to be boring, grey, drab rubbish.
Next task: let's try and slip some meme into our next papers. Not Goatse, something a bit less well known. Any ideas?
boris the spider,
Sat 24 May 2008, 20:59,
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B3ta has helped me no endF'rinstance:
if I hadn't have been cocking about making stuff for here, I'd never have found this tool.
I'm going to work Teh Quo into a table-of-contents image.
(if I hadn't have been cocking about making stuff for here, I'd never have found this tool.
I'm going to work Teh Quo into a table-of-contents image.
Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...",
Sat 24 May 2008, 21:01,
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I wondered about the Quobut I think there's probably something better out there. I'm going to pay more attention to memes on this place, and then build it into a paper.
linked for being disgustingly huge (370k, about 1024x1024 i think) is the kind of image I'll be playing with. I think there's a lot of potential for working something into that.
Mummies, for example.
(linked for being disgustingly huge (370k, about 1024x1024 i think) is the kind of image I'll be playing with. I think there's a lot of potential for working something into that.
Mummies, for example.
boris the spider,
Sat 24 May 2008, 21:13,
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You model Preying Mantis heads?I did the wrong Ph.D.
( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...",
Sat 24 May 2008, 21:25,
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