loose ends

• 4 years and thousands upon thousands of dollars for my science education and i was unaware of this phenomenon. i'm a sham.
• i could crank this one out in about 15 minutes. red sox → determinism → new england calvinistic world view → dan shaughnessy's morgage. remind me again what the aforementioned dollars were for when i could much more easily major in nonsense and get the same diploma? not to mention the career that can be made in stating the obvious. now a career of stating the non-obvious about things that most people are not only indifferent towards, but often unaware of? that'll cost you.
• einstein visited dartmouth at some point. this is a picture of him with college president ernest fox nichols (1909-1916). very little seems to be known about his visit. i can't even tell what building they are standing in front of--it certainly isn't the physics one. plus, einstein didn't even visit the u.s. until 1921, so i don't know. maybe it was taken somewhere else. sorry.