{"id":785,"date":"2008-01-29T00:15:31","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T00:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/01\/29\/doing-science-isnt-always-easy-and-sometimes-you-need-a-beer\/"},"modified":"2008-01-29T00:15:31","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T00:15:31","slug":"doing-science-isnt-always-easy-and-sometimes-you-need-a-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/01\/29\/doing-science-isnt-always-easy-and-sometimes-you-need-a-beer\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing science isn&#8217;t always easy (and sometimes you need a beer)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nicmcphee\/2226609393\/\" title=\"Doing science isn't always easy by Unhindered by Talent, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2293\/2226609393_389f05e2f3.jpg?w=450\" alt=\"Doing science isn't always easy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is from the morning break here on our first full day at <a href=\"http:\/\/dagstuhl.de\/\">Dagstuhl<\/a>.  I love the look on his face.<\/p>\n<p>Dagstuhl isn&#8217;t all heavy thinking and hard work, though.  I had a beer with dinner (pictured below); unfortunately it made me <em>very<\/em> sleepy for a while.  I&#8217;m such a lightweight&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nicmcphee\/2226606189\/\" title=\"All work and no play by Unhindered by Talent, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2196\/2226606189_effdbca6af.jpg?w=450\" alt=\"All work and no play\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\t<div class=\"st-post-tags \">\n\tTags: <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/beer\/\" title=\"beer\">beer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/dagstuhl\/\" title=\"Dagstuhl\">Dagstuhl<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/hard-work\/\" title=\"hard work\">hard work<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/my-photography\/\" title=\"my photography\">my photography<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/research\/\" title=\"Research\">Research<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/science\/\" title=\"Science\">Science<\/a><br \/><\/div>\n\n\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/01\/25\/wrapping-ones-head-around-the-data\/\" title=\"Wrapping one&#8217;s head around the data (25 Jan 08)\">Wrapping one&#8217;s head around the data<\/a> (0)<\/li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/01\/28\/right-in-the-thick-of-it\/\" title=\"Right in the thick of it (28 Jan 08)\">Right in the thick of it<\/a> (0)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is from the morning break here on our first full day at Dagstuhl. I love the look on his face. Dagstuhl isn&#8217;t all heavy thinking and hard work, though. I had a beer with dinner (pictured below); unfortunately it made me very sleepy for a while. I&#8217;m such a lightweight&#8230; Tags: beer, Dagstuhl, hard &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/01\/29\/doing-science-isnt-always-easy-and-sometimes-you-need-a-beer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Doing science isn&#8217;t always easy (and sometimes you need a beer)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[4,11,20,12,27,15,19],"tags":[232,226,233,65,864,866],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-cF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":838,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/05\/15\/far-too-many-photos-from-dagstuhl\/","url_meta":{"origin":785,"position":0},"title":"Far too many photos from Dagstuhl","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"15 May 08","format":false,"excerpt":"Regular readers here will likely remember various past posts extolling the virtues of Dagstuhl, this really wonderful computing research facility in Germany. I've been lucky enough to attend several seminars on the Theory of Evolutionary Algorithms in the past, and have taken (and posted) quite a few photos from those\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Computing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Computing","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/computing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":789,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/02\/03\/done-dumping-dagstuhl-photos\/","url_meta":{"origin":785,"position":1},"title":"Done dumping Dagstuhl photos","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"3 Feb 08","format":false,"excerpt":"Almost had an alliteration in the title, but then lost it at the end. Sigh. I've finishing dumping all my Dagstuhl photos (uncleaned and unedited) to my event account on Flickr, so those with more time than sense can rush over and gaze upon them all. 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On top of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Computing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Computing","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/computing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":784,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/01\/28\/right-in-the-thick-of-it\/","url_meta":{"origin":785,"position":3},"title":"Right in the thick of it","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"28 Jan 08","format":false,"excerpt":"We all arrive at Dagstuhl on Sunday night for the week's workshop. After a long day of traveling we enjoy some of Dagstuhl's exceptional food, meet with folks, and catch up. Above is the conversation during dinner tonight. 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