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Day 345: The Cold

January 3, 2018 phillmemoir

It’s like supernaturally cold right now. I think this might be true everywhere, but it’s an interesting feeling for me because I’m almost never cold. I’m always too hot. But when I experience time like[…]

Day 344: Xfinity fails me

January 3, 2018 phillUncategorized

I’m still on the phone with Comcast—blogging from my phone. So—a re-run from Facebook: I don’t often make “lecture-y” posts, but I was listening to my fave podcast (Harmontown) and I was thinking about[…]

Day 343/Day 1of18: That thing from last year

January 2, 2018 phillUncategorized

Last year, Julie and I completed this “year compass” thing. I was just looking at it, and I’ve decided that tonight I’m going to look at my “your next year will be about” page to[…]

Day 342: Ten Years ago today…

December 31, 2017 phillmemoir

I remember the drive back to Michigan from Richmond on NYE 2007– vaguely snowy, low traffic. I listened to Counting Crows for most of the ride. You can play almost their whole catalog on that[…]

Day 341: The Quest for Bushi

December 31, 2017 phillUncategorized

Over the last week, I’ve been making a wrestler a night in WWE 2K18. Tonight I intend to make the masked cruiserweight from LIJ: Bushi. I had a bit of a quest trying to find[…]

Day 340: Why Kylo Ren is so compelling

December 30, 2017 phillPop Culture

I wanted to wait a bit before writing on this, but it’s spoiler time if you haven’t seen the Last Jedi. SPOILERS SPOILER SPACE Okay, so in the Last Jedi, we get the[…]

Day 339: On Game Addiction

December 28, 2017 phillgames

Anytime the topic of video game addiction is discussed, it’s prudent to start with the definition of addiction itself as the starting point. This is where the first issue comes to light: there are varied[…]

Day 338: Just to follow up yesterday…

December 28, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

I know my post yesterday probably looked a touch pessimistic. It was, in a way, because the job market for PhDs IS pessimistic. We create more PhDs every year than we can employ in the[…]

Day 337: Answering someone’s Quora question

December 27, 2017 phillconfessional into a dashboard

Someone asked this today: Are PhD students who get faculty job offers usually the most popular and well-socialized PhD students? Let me start by saying I think this probably varies by field. I’ve only been part[…]

Day 336: Just a little memory

December 26, 2017 phillmemoir

Once, circa 1993, I took a friend of mine from high school to X-mas shop at a mall in Dayton, OH. At that point, for anyone who is local, Dayton was starting to have teen[…]