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oracknows | April 3, 2006Damn you, Kev!
You hit me with this meme. I often ignore being tagged with memes, but because it's Kev I won't refuse. It's also a conveniently quick way to fill blog space while I'm at the AACR Meeting. I was just too tired last night to write anything substantive and utterly crashed at around 10 PM, even though a few of you have been clamoring for me to address this study--patience). I'll be posting some stuff, but I don't know if I'll get around to any detailed analyses until I get back on Thursday. (Of course, if the meeting ends up being dull, I may end up finding one of the wifi…
oracknows | March 29, 2006I don't normally read the Financial Times. "What?" you say. "I thought that all doctors read the FT."
Ah, but you forget that I'm an academic physician. Don't get me wrong; I make a comfortable living, more money than I've made in my entire life, but I could almost certainly increase my earnings by 50-100% by going into private practice. I'd probably work roughly the same hours with the exception that I'd be called in more often for emergencies and that I'd spend all of my time either in the clinic or in the O.R., in contrast to the situation now where I spend half my time begging for money…
oracknows | March 8, 2006Here's an interesting new blog that I discovered via Trackback.
Remember my post yesterday praising a certain commenter who chimed in about the Geiers.
He's started his own blog called Good Math, Bad Math, which he describes thusly:
...in my experience, one of the most clear ways of identifying a crackpot is through math. No matter the specific subject, the crackpots always either avoid or screw up the math. Whether it's the "mercuy causes autism" folks, the Velikovskians, creationists, alt-medicine quacks, republican pollsters, or scientologists - you can always recognize the crackpots by…
oracknows | March 3, 2006Just when I think I'm starting to get a lot of regular traffic, leave it to PZ to show me that I'm still a bit of a peon. Normally, I get around 1,500 visits a day, but what happens when PZ links to me, as he linked to yesterday's post about RFK, Jr. and his conspiracy-mongering?
Nearly 4,000 visits, and the spike still hasn't subsided.
Nothing like that to show a guy his true place in the blogosphere, eh?
Of course, if that had happened six months ago, it would have been a ten- or twenty-fold spike in my usual readership; so I guess I've made some progress in shamelessly promoting myself.…