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Just being struck by the fact that while I meant to do some physics blogging this month, I& #39;ve done none, and June is almost over. This is partly because I had other obligations that ate up my writing time, but honestly, the news-y topics have just been kind of dispiriting.
I mean, we& #39;re going to have another go-round with a maybe-hint of a possibly-a-new-particle that& #39;s probably-a-statistical-fluke? Another round of "Should we spend billions on another accelerator"? Just f*&king shoot me and get it over with.
And then there are evergreen topics like interpretations of quantum mechanics, which I find exhausting because there are people who REALLY care about this and are READY TO GO at the turn of a phrase, and I just don& #39;t find those fights compelling at that level.
Or there& #39;s the ever-popular "Is philosophy important for science?" which is a wonderful topic for lowering my opinion of both scientists and philosophers. Just knock me over the head and throw me off a bridge.
I& #39;m not saying these aren& #39;t important topics, mind, or that there aren& #39;t interesting conversations to be had about them. I& #39;m just saying that I& #39;M not interested in having those conversations AGAIN. I& #39;ve said my piece, and don& #39;t see much value in saying it again.
And, of course, there& #39;s the background of not-science news, which continues to be a bundle of accumulated misery, which mostly just raises the ambient angst level while lowering my opinion of nearly everyone.
So, it& #39;s been a solid month of "Oh, what& #39;s the f*&king point?" whenever I start to think about writing a blog post.
Which is not to say that I haven& #39;t been writing stuff-- I& #39;ve been making decent progress on the book-in-progress, and had some fun with a couple of other not-blogging projects. It& #39;s just blog writing specifically that fills me with Meh.
Anyway, this thread was prompted by the realization that my login to the back end at Forbes has timed out, and I don& #39;t remember what I changed the password to back in May.
