CharonY
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My wife, Nancy, passed away the morning of the 16th in her sleep. I am lost, I don't know what to do, I keep thinking I'll ask Nancy what to do then it hits me again.
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Accepted for a residency in anaesthesiology!
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Pretty sure the German term "lebensunwertes Leben" was invented for mosquitoes.
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The only place to buy coffee with all the construction on campus only has decaf. Considered cancelling my 8.30am lecture in protest.
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I met another one today. An intelligent, normal looking guy, physics PHD, worked in CERN, no wife no children, no financial problems, convinced he's a looser, depressed and on the virge of suicide. Morons run around this world happily smiling knowing everything and valuable people are dying out in front of us. WTF is happening.
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Anyone here watched Grave of Fireflies? Just watched it for the second time: forgot just how brilliant and completely devastating that film is. Studio Ghibli is several orders of magnitude better than Disney.
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For small children I would definitely be careful with (off the top of my head) the above mentioned Grave of the Fireflies (maybe ages 10-12+), Princess Mononoke (gore and violence), maybe Nausicaa (bit of violence), Castle in the sky (ditto). And there are many movies that are certainly boring for small kids, such as Only Yesterday or From Up On Poppy Hill which are clearly not made for children as an audience in mind. It is clearly up to debate but they are clearly not sanitized as Disney mo...
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Anyone here watched Grave of Fireflies? Just watched it for the second time: forgot just how brilliant and completely devastating that film is. Studio Ghibli is several orders of magnitude better than Disney.
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Anyone here watched Grave of Fireflies? Just watched it for the second time: forgot just how brilliant and completely devastating that film is. Studio Ghibli is several orders of magnitude better than Disney.
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The perks of living in Australia. We have two possums that live in the roof of the mass spec room. Yesterday one of them urinated all over a piece of equipment worth many hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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The perks of living in Australia. We have two possums that live in the roof of the mass spec room. Yesterday one of them urinated all over a piece of equipment worth many hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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My parents refuse to allow me to invest the $500 that I have saved up to use in the stock market.
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My parents refuse to allow me to invest the $500 that I have saved up to use in the stock market.
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I overheard a particularly incompetant colleague of mine tell another student that you 'learn through mistakes,' just now. Whille I believe the statement to be true, if all you ever do is make mistakes (as he does), then have you really learned anything?
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I overheard a particularly incompetant colleague of mine tell another student that you 'learn through mistakes,' just now. Whille I believe the statement to be true, if all you ever do is make mistakes (as he does), then have you really learned anything?
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Scientists had to delete Urban Dictionary's data from the memory of IBM's Watson, because it was learning to swear in its answers.
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"Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic."—Derek Walcott,
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"Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic."—Derek Walcott,
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"Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic."—Derek Walcott,
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My first ever graduate student defended today - fake it until your grad students make it?
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Does imposter syndrome ever go away?
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Returned my unused Zyban and signed off from my smoking adviser today. Job done, hopefully..
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nightmare on election day...
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Just welcomed my first postdoc to my lab!
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I am going to give a talk at the University of Swansea - my old undergrad uni. The talk will be about Lagrangian mechanics on supermanifolds.
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My father died last night - so I won't be posting here as regular