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The many lives of Zar Room whiteboards

Saturday, April 3, 2010

There’s a certain nook in the Zar Room of Crerar science library usually blocked from view by whiteboards that are often covered in interesting writing. I’ve found “Fight for survival PhD“, a confession of low-grade panic (with a helpful suggestion), linear algebra gone wrong, plans for a policy memo.
Recently, though, I found it covered in [...]

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Crescat Graffiti: blocked in China?

Thursday, April 1, 2010

A random bit of miscellanea: based on Matthew Felix Sun’s recent experiments, it seems that this website is blocked in China. It’s no surprise that some of the images are censored in the Flickr sets– there’s a known issue [Wikipedia] with certain Flickr image servers– things on farm2.static.flickr.com and farm4.static.flickr.com seem to be available, but [...]

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Emptiness, perceived reality, and actual reality in the Reg

Friday, February 12, 2010

This week in the stacks, I stumbled across two pieces of Chinese graffiti different from those I’d encountered previously. While most Chinese graffiti has been written horizontally, these pieces gave the impression of being written vertically, in neat rows.
Peter Behr, a UofC alum, identified the first piece as a notable passage from Dream of the [...]

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