http://jeff.bleugris.com/journal Random ramblings from a Ph.D. student Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:13:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en To those doubting my theory about NYE babies, I checked all 12 months for number of births of friends on Facebook (a sample taken from 512 friends). I focused on the range of the 25th to the 5th, as some people are a few days early, and some are a ... http://jeff.bleugris.com/journal/2011/09/29/nye-babies/ After countless years of having barren walls, I finally broke down and put up some posters. I went looking online for posters of some of the national and state parks to which I've been. But the sizes I wanted, about 24x36, were all way expensive, like $75-$120 expensive. Then I realized, ... http://jeff.bleugris.com/journal/2011/07/01/new-wall-decorations/ Yet another trip to Europe. This time though, I decided to go when it would be all pretty and white. The real reason I was going to Europe again is because my colleague had visa issues. He had a paper accepted to a conference in Meran, Italy, ... http://jeff.bleugris.com/journal/2009/12/25/walking-in-a-winter-wonderland-european-style/ There's been a lot happening in my life over the past few weeks. As should be expected, much of it revolved around the new school year. There were also some personal things happening in my life, but I shan't bore you with those details. I happened to meet a great group ... http://jeff.bleugris.com/journal/2009/10/05/an-eventful-four-weeks/ This (Washington Post) has more and more gotten to me. The story describes how Gawker (a news aggregator/abbreviator) basically excerpted the heck out of a Washington Post article. They took a story that was three days and several thousand dollars in the making, and cut in down in half an ... http://jeff.bleugris.com/journal/2009/08/02/the-future-of-news-does-it-even-have-one/