December, 2006

Music — No Comments
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Dec 06

Tune of The Week: Decibully

This week’s tune of the week features Decibully, a band from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They are signed to Polyvinyl Records.

The band released their first album, City of Festivals in 2003, and their latest album Sing Out America in 2005. Their roots as a band go back to Fall of 2001 when they were formed as a trio according to the information on their page on Polyvinly Records.

From the same source, we learn that two members of Decibully were the founders of a band called Camden in 1999 and released a self titled EP back then. They were then signed to Polyvinly records as Decibully.

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PhD Cliche of the Week — No Comments
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Dec 06

PhD Cliche of the Week: This Topic is Taken, Please Move On

I will try to catch up with my Phd Cliche of the Week posts. I didn’t do a good job of committing to that section of my blog. I find Phd Comics (Piled Higher and Deeper) to be a good inspiration for such posts. So, here is a cliche inspired by the strip above. Clicking on it will take you to the site for other strips.

One of the many nightmares of a Phd student is to find out that the topic she is working on has already been done. It may take just one publication to void your research efforts. All those sleepless nights trying to shape up your ideas, come up with something new, and fantasizing about the day you will leave the grad school may be buried down if you come across one paper that described the research in your mind.

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