Random Nerd Rants

Author: fmneto

  • Human-cyborg relations

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    Anthony Daniels is in Brazil. I went to see him in a local book store:Taken with a cellphone camera, because everyone forgot their cameras. Now I am the proud owner of a signed copy of “The Hero With a Thousand Faces”, by Joseph Campbell.

  • Not… screwed?

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    Ok, I may have overreacted in my last post. Turns out, I’m not as screwed as I thought I was. Electron density mapping is a very complicated thing to do, and my advisor decided to leave it out of the work for now. But she did want to do it when we first talked about…

  • Oh fuck.

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    I’m screwed. Big time. I had MONTHS do to something, and I didn’t. The only excuse I have is that I don’t even know where to begin to do something like what I had to do. Anyway, I’m screwed. Big time.

  • Throwing away some garbage

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    I decided to throw away some things that have been taking up space in my room and haven’t been useful in a long time. Although this is not the first time I do that, this time it was inspired by a friend‘s parents, whose… strong opinions in these matters have been quite insightful. There’s a…

  • More useless statistics

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    Today I received my shinystat weekly report. It’s amazing how every now and then it gets to surprise me. Today, I noticed a pretty cool feature: it shows me, regarding hits on the blog coming from search engines, the search keywords that caused Stairway to Geekiness to show up in the results. What took me…

  • Six more months

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    I have received an extension in my funding. I am in the process of renewing it until the end of July. I can’t say this is what I’ve been hoping for. I actually would prefer receiving word about my PhD – I need to be sure it is going to happen. This actually worries me…

  • Yada, yada, yada

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    Despite the huge amount of things that happened the past couple weeks, I did not post anything here because, to be honest, I didn’t really care.  Among other things, I’ve been working a lot. My work is – hopefully – reaching its end. Anyway, I’m not really in the mood for reporting everything that has…