Tonight I have a little time to expound on some recent activities, like my trip to Michigan and the TAM post below. It’s true that I met a tortoise while in Michigan and paddled around a lake, but I particularly wanted to hang out with my sister for a while. The emotional spikes and valleys [...]
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I told you I’d get back to this eventually. Here are a few other tidbits about my trip to Vegas.
As with the other time I attended, the presentation of papers on Sunday morning was at least as good as the rest of the conference. The paper about marketing skepticism was particularly interesting.
I watched [...]
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“If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you.” It’s the state motto of Michigan. The motto is in Latin because Michigan was conquered by the Roman Empire centuries ago. The Romans surprised the native Michiganders by crossing Lake Huron in wooden submarines and then corrupting the populace with toga parties. Latin was the official [...]
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Woo hoo! The Skeptics Guide to the Universe is my favorite podcast, so it made me very happy to hear them use a sound file I contributed. The sound is the subject of this week’s “Who’s that Noisy?” contest.
I met a couple SGU members at the recent TAM 7, and even watched one of them [...]
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My secret location for the next week:
Hopefully this lake won’t contain mysterious blobs of goo.
No time to post more about TAM 7. No time to discuss the sorry state of my psyche right now. Maybe later.
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As you can see, I made it to the Amazing Meeting this year. When this photo was taken my head was swirling with ideas. Sometime I’ll write a bit more about TAM, and maybe post a few more photos. I may not have much blogging time till after my trip to Michigan next week. For [...]
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With any luck, tomorrow I’ll be trying to ignore the fact that I’m in Las Vegas and it’s 100 degrees outside. No, I’ll stay in the air conditioned comfort of my hotel. The Amaz!ng Meeting has finally arrived. The hotel rates got progressively cheaper as the time got closer. I think Vegas is in trouble. [...]
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I consider it a lucky day whenever I find a Jack Chick comic book. It only happens to me once every five years or so, and today was my day. It was sitting on the pharmacy counter at Walgreens. The hate-filled but lovable little pamphlet I found was distributed by the Calvary Chapel in West [...]
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