Daily Reading (17 September 2015)

[nanila]

What have you been reading today? Everything counts, from a novel-length fic to the labels on your washing!

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[whereisirisnow]

A paper about friction! And the webpage of the USGS, because there has been a major earthquake in Chile!

[alexseanchai]

How major is major? I knew there was an earthquake, my Facebook notifications this morning included "[friend in Chile] has been marked safe in the Chile Earthquake", but—I should go an actual news site, shouldn't I.

[whereisirisnow]

Maybe following the news would be a good idea ;) I found that it can literally open a whole new world :)

A major earthquake as in: 8.3 Mw (which is quite big, although not yet classified as a great earthquake (threshold=8.5Mw) and a tsunami.

[alexseanchai]

Yeah, I went to theguardian.com. I deliberately don't usually read news sites, it's generally sad-making, but some things I shouldn't be learning about from happening to read a comment on Dreamwidth.

[nanila]

Research and research-relevant current events! Well done. :)

[alexseanchai]

The prompt for our introductions to our classmates for my Systems of Oppression in Women's Lives class. Again. (Class starts in one week, intros are due two weeks yesterday, and the course has been open in Canvas for three weeks at least. So I have time but I want to do this post really soon now and argh.)

[nanila]

Lots of work e-mail, some social media catch-up during breaks, slides for the telecon marathon (last daaaaay).

[dhampyresa]

fucking maths

[nanila]

Oof, sorry you're not enjoying it. :(

[dhampyresa]

Thanks.

[chickenfeet]

This comment thread

[nanila]

I just started Sir Stanley Hooker's Not Much of an Engineer. I do love how the attitude at Rolls Royce seems to have been, "Oh look, we hired a mathematician!...So, um, what do we do with him?"

[weaverbird]

Lots of news sites, Twitter, a Science Bros fic that was pretty damn adorable, QuickBooks, spreadsheets, emails.

[nanila]

Must not get sucked into Science Bros fic. MUSTN'T! :D