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Let me introduce myself. I am David, and this is my page.
I am currently a post-doc in the
Haensch group
at
the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics
which is in Munich, which, in turn, is located in Germany.
Click on my research page. You know you want to.
Coming Up
Tropic Hunt 2006
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Going Down
Continuing interests:
OS X, the writings of David Foster Wallace
Research, research, research
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What happened to all those other pages?
§ And what about treasure hunts?
Quote of the Moment
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Special Election Quotation
...Mike Murphy tells the hemispheric scrum that the Press Release and
new ad reflect the McCain2000 campaign's decision, after much agonizing,
to respond to what he says is G.W. Bush's welshing on the two candidates'
public handshake-agreement in January to run a bilaterally positive campaign.
For the past five days, mostly in New York and SC, the Shrub has apparently
been running ads that characterize McCain's policy proposals in what Murphy
terms a "willfully distorting" way. Plus there's the push-polling (see
P. Release supra) a practice that is regarded as the absolute bottom-feeder of
sleazy campagin tactics (Rep. Lindsey Graham, introducing McCain at tomorrow's
THMs, will describe push-polling to South Carolina audiences as "the crack
cocaine of modern politics"). But the worst, the most obviously unacceptable,
Murphy emphasizes, was the Shrub standing up at a podium in SC a couple
days ago with a wild-eyed and apparently notorious "fringe veteran" who
publicly accused John McCain of "abandoning his fellow veterans" after
returning from Vietnam, which, Murphy says, without going into Senator
McCain's well-documented personal bio and heroic legislative efforts on
behalf of vets for nearly twenty years (Murphy's voice rises an octave
here, and blotches of color appear high on his cheeks, and it's clear he's
personally hurt and aggrieved, which means that either he maybe really
personally likes and believes in John S. McCain III or else has the frightening
ability to raise angry blotches on his cheeks at will, the way certain actors
can make themselves cry on cue) is just so clearly over the line of even
minimal personal decency and honor that it pretty much necessitates
some sort of response.
- from David Foster Wallace's Up, Simba!
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Bonus Coverage
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"Eighteen in May, Mario Incandeza's designated function around Enfeld Tennis Academy is filmic: sometimes during A.M. drills or P.M. matches he'll be assigned by Coach Schtitt et al. to set up an old camcorder or whatever video stuff's to hand on a tripod and record a certain area of court, video-taping different kid's strokes, footwork, certain tics and hitches in serves or running volleys, so the staff can show the tapes to the kids instructionally, letting the kids see on the screen exactly what a coach or prorector's talking about. The reason being it's a lot easier to fix something if you can see it."
- David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, p. 55
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