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Letter from America - Part XX, Back in the lab and some general musings

jbharpe...@gmail.com (Jason Harper) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:43:00 UT

Hi everyone,
This last week has been a shocker in the lab and hence this is both
late and shorter than I would normally have. But it's also a good
chance to write some fun things that have happened at other stages in
a valiant effort to cheer myself (and hopefully you) up. Please
forgive any lack of apparent coherency as a result.

Bimonthly cleanup

jbharpe...@gmail.com (Jason Harper) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:20:00 UT

Hi everyone,
If you're getting this, it means you share a dropbox folder with me
that I'm going to 'clean-up' in the next week. Principally this is
to save space and just to move material which is no longer being
worked on. This is applies to those folders I nominally manage
(particularly the group folder and the ionic liquids folder) and the

Letter from America - Part XIX, A Birthday Overseas

jbharpe...@gmail.com (Jason Harper) — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:39:00 UT

Hi all,
An 'interesting' week this week but first a catch up on birthdays
overseas. And note that its delivered early this time.
J
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As mentioned last time, last week was my birthday. For those of you
who either can't remember, haven't been told or just enjoy me
squirming while answering, I turned 35. Somebody commented that I

[Not urgent] An interesting fact that I have just discovered

honman....@student.unsw.edu.au (Honman Yau) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:52:50 UT

Dear all,
[link]
Honie

Letter from America - Part XVIII, Halloween

jbharpe...@gmail.com (Jason Harper) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:38:49 UT

Hi all,
With luck, I've now sorted the daylight saving issue and this will
arrive in everyone's inbox before work on Monday. Or so they can
read it on the way to work (as highlighted by someone previously as
being the preferred option ...)
Onto this week's installment, which is likely to be back to the

Letter from America - Part XVII, The Holy War: Boston College vs University of Notre Dame

jbharpe...@gmail.com (Jason Harper) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:57:08 UT

Hi everyone,
We should be back on track now in terms of sending an e-mail a week
(touch wood) as hopefully this will be in your inbox on Monday
morning. I'm sure I've got daylight savings wrong which means this
is an hour late - at least, because I've been fighting with uploading
photos.
Jason
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Letter from America - Part XVI - Letter from Brazil, Part II

jbharpe...@gmail.com (Jason Harper) — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:53:00 UT

Hi everyone,
This week is the continuation of last weeks
Letter from Brazil. Hopefully all of the photos
are visible now.
Jason
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I spent most of my week with native English
speakers. Particularly, there was Dick Weiss,
mentioned in the previous e-mail, my postdoc
supervisor Tony Kirby, Bradley Williams (from

Letter from America - Part XV, Letter from Brazil, Part I

jbharpe...@gmail.com (Jason Harper) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:48:00 UT

Hi everyone,
It possibly should be referred to as 'Letter from Brazil' as this and
likely the next missive are going to be focused on my trip to Brazil.
But for consistency, LfA it is.
Jason
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My trip to Brazil represented nearly the end of a a very, very busy
time for me. In many ways it was a bit of a break from the busy-ness

Letter from America - Part XIV, New York, NY (so good, they named it twice)

jbharpe...@gmail.com (Jason Harper) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:32:00 UT

Hi everyone,
Sorry for the delay in the LfAs - being in Brazil without e-mail
access does this to you. But with this up to date and some
meanderings on Brazil done, hopefully I'll be back on track by the
end of the week.
Jason
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In Letter from America this week, it's all about a trip to New York

Letter from America - Part XIII, Some academic stuff and the US Postal Service

jbharpe...@gmail.com (Jason Harper) — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:36:27 UT

Hi everyone,
Apologies for the delay in LfA XIII - as will be seen when I finally
catch up, things have been really rather busy here for the last
little while. I'm going to aim to write LfA XIV (which will focus
mostly on last weekend) before I leave for Brazil today but I don't
know if I'll get it done (or when it will reach you due to unknown

Fwd: Random Thoughts (fwd)

jbharpe...@gmail.com (Jason Harper) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:58:00 UT

Seriously, as I was reading this, the voice in my head turned into Steve's ...

Letter from America - Part XII, A busy week

jbharpe...@gmail.com (Jason Harper) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 03:50:04 UT

Hi everyone,
It was going to be another themed week but I find it's Sunday night
(and well past the time that I normally write these e-mails) and I've
only just gotten onto this. Sadly, I think this might be the pattern
in the next month as this is the last weekend I'm in Boston until the
end of November. So this week is going to be further accounts of

Letter from America - Part XI, Undergrads and College Pride

jbharpe...@gmail.com (Jason Harper) — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:55:00 UT

Hi everyone,
This week has been soooo busy that I'm likely to be relatively short.
Everything going well but just a lot of stuff to do.
Jason
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This week was very busy as a whole pile of things come to a head.
First of all, the equipment that I need to function here at BC has
now come online - yes, I have temperature control on the NMR

Letter from America - Part X, Football

jbharpe...@gmail.com (Jason Harper) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:38:16 UT

Hi everyone,
Right, we're back on track again with topics, in this weeks LfA
(not, as someone pointed out, based on the Proclaimers song of the
same name) as we focus on students coming back and all that it
means.
Jason
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So this week I promised Football, and that is what you're going
to get. The weekend ten days ago was the opening of the college

Connection Problems

jbharpe...@gmail.com (Jason Harper) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:38:07 UT

Hi all,
I seem to be having internet connection problems. Hopefully when you
get this from me, you'll also get any message backlog you were
expecting.
Jason