the Blog Challenge
Despite popular opinion, I do not spend all of my time blogging. In fact, I spend very little time blogging. I spend a lot of my time working, and, when not working, (to be fair) climbing. In order to prevent rumors of laziness and distraction, I've been asking people to not make my blog public, to not link to it, and to not give out the URL indiscriminately. I even had to ask L.M. to kindly remove the link from his (very popular) blog.
Nonetheless, I was surprised at Strings when a few people (who I don't know very well and to whom I hadn't given my blog address) commented to me about my blog. I hope to someday get a good postdoc and, when I found out that professors have strong evidence of my non-stringy adventures (because I do not like to write about work), I got worried.
So I am offering to you, my readers, the following blog challenge: If you can find my blog (on google, etc, not by emailing L.M.!), then I will buy you dinner and beer.
By the way, the blog was started because I was planning to travel a lot this year and I wanted to keep my friends and family updated on my whereabouts and well-being. I am now back from my travels and don't have any plans for future trips. So my postings may be few and far between until I go somewhere again. If you, my reader, are planning to go anywhere and would like to post on this blog, please send me an email and I'll set you up.
Cheers!
Nonetheless, I was surprised at Strings when a few people (who I don't know very well and to whom I hadn't given my blog address) commented to me about my blog. I hope to someday get a good postdoc and, when I found out that professors have strong evidence of my non-stringy adventures (because I do not like to write about work), I got worried.
So I am offering to you, my readers, the following blog challenge: If you can find my blog (on google, etc, not by emailing L.M.!), then I will buy you dinner and beer.
By the way, the blog was started because I was planning to travel a lot this year and I wanted to keep my friends and family updated on my whereabouts and well-being. I am now back from my travels and don't have any plans for future trips. So my postings may be few and far between until I go somewhere again. If you, my reader, are planning to go anywhere and would like to post on this blog, please send me an email and I'll set you up.
Cheers!
posted by Michelle at 4:38 p.m.
5 Comments:
That is really freakin' weird. The only thing you find with various combinations of Michelle, Cyrier, Harvard, Blog, String Theory, Physics, China is. .me. I mentioned you when we were in Japan, perhaps overly specifially. But I specifically did not link to you.
My only guess is that you sent links to string theorists (say, our mutual friends) by email, and they were amused by either the tales or the pictures or both and forwarded them to others in the community. I don't see how anyone could find it by googling you.
I happened to be on Technorati and one of top or sample search terms is Lubos Motl, which I hadn't heard of before, so I clicked it and you're the most recent result from that search - or actually, your post from a couple days ago about being found on Blogshares.
I don't know how you can pull yourself out of the Technorati database, but I wonder if you'd be better off just starting a new blog.
Cheers,
Will
P.S. Do Technorati searches count toward the blog challenge?
The Technorati is worth at least a beer. If anyone knows how to get rid of the link, I'd love to hear your suggestions!
Will-- do I know you?
Yup, I found you through Technorati, too. But I'm always happy to find a woman in the hard sciences (my wife's a formal laser jockey -- chemical physicist, to be exact).
Nice to meetcha.
Whoops. That's former laser jockey. She was never too formal about it.
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