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Another successful day in the terror-ridden postmodern now. In case you didn't hear, Boston police found 10 "suspicious devices" in the greater Boston area, spanning from NEMC to the BU Bridge to Somerville. Everyone obviously freaked out. Allof them turned out to be duds, which is nice, but it got better when Turner Broadcasting called the city of Boston (Operator - get me Boston!) to apologize for an ill-advised marketing stunt. Yep, that's right, it's the Aqua Teen Hunger Force!!! Make the homies say ho and the girlies wanna scream!!!

So this is all at least mildly funny in a "damn, the times are absurd" kinda way, but on the radio this afternoon it was Apocalypse brought to you Now by your friends at Tweeter. It was a nice little juxtaposition, the whole radio show on a maybe terrorist attack no not a terrorist attack oh wait actually a tv commercial, all of it interjected with ads for the usual mundane stuff (counter tops, tax advice, mortgage payment reduction schemes). While the city burned, Nero played the revenue generating ads.

So that was a fun cap to an otherwise uneventful day - we discussed p-values in class today, and I think I hit about 33% of the students which is pretty par for the p-value course. Followed by advisor meetings and faculty meetings and a bunch of other repeated exposures to the idea that teenagers are on the whole a messed up crüe. Don't ask. But on the plus side I got two drop-by visits from students from last semester who stopped in to say hi and tell me how their auditions were going. Fun times; there are quite a few awesome Nuts in the proverbial mixed bag. And the whole day was capped off with an interdepartmental meeting with the humanities folks and the science folks, and the usual bloody fact v. feeling debate erupted. Just kidding- we discussed standards of citation, and why no one should use Wikipedia as a source when writing a research paper. I totally agree, btw, though I think the Wiki dragon is fine to use for general info. We then attempted to make some kind of checkbox system algorithm for what makes websites okay to use that was on its way to failing miserably until I suggested a more holistic heuristic of asking the question "If someone challenged this source in my paper, would I be able to defend its inclusion." AS you can tell, it was a rip-roaring fun time.

Another tutoring session and I am back at home eating Beck-made macaroni casserole and blogging the night away. So now I will stop and do something awesome (not that this isn't). That will probably involve reading, the greatest art form of the 21st century.