Paid by the Word
The good news: by word count, I am about 10% done with my qualifier paper. The bad news: I am just working on the background and related work sections, and I feel like I am only about half way done (and they were "due" over a week ago, but it's all the soft expectations of internal deadlines.) These preliminary sections really cannot take up this much space, seeing as I will also want to discuss things little things like hypotheses, methodology, and results. My current plan is to just write and worry about word count later. No doubt I will add a few things as well as cut a lot over the course of the next year. Uh. More like nine months. Tick tock.

Random collection of links from the past week:

20 questions for Presidential candidates is a fun read. While it is moot, seeing as he dropped out, number 17 is my personal favorite.

A study in Texas finds about a fifth of people have been stalked in the past two years. I expect the study was skewed toward college participants, but even still: the bar for what constitutes stalking is high. So why aren't students more concerned about privacy issues?

As predicted, the FCC is stalling on NN for another year.