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Well, we made it to 2009, albeit a second later than normal. Looking back on 2008 there were lots of good things mixed in with the not so great.

2009 will, without a doubt, be another “good news/bad news” year. The main focus for me this year is to finish my dissertation and graduate (finally!). So there will be lots in this blog about writing (both the dissertation and the associated journal articles). I am sure there will be all the things that strike my funny bone, and the science-y and family things, so it won’t bore everyone to tears.

From Abstruse Goose

Best wishes for 2009 to all of you!

Over at the New York Times one of the illustrators, Christoph Niemann has put together a graphic chronicle of coffee. All put together as if on napkins.

Here’s his plot of coffee related bias with respect to time.

Christoph describes it here:

Here’s a chart that shows my coffee bias over the years.

For good measure I have added my bagel preferences over the same period. (1) Drip coffee, (2) Starbucks, (3) blueberry bagels, (4) sesame bagels, (5) poppy-seed bagels, (6) everything bagels

Please don’t hold my brief affair with blueberry bagels against me. I cured myself of this aberration.