Finding a Job in Academics (A Q&A with Myself)

Everyone likes Q&A formats, right? Yes, everyone. What field are you in? Information systems management and it’s worth noting that everything contained in this document is sort of specific to my field. Other fields will have similar processes and cognates, but eventually the specifics end up being unique to a given field. How do you

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Map for My Post-Dissertation Road Trip

Although it’s also sort of a during-dissertation road trip. Not pictured is the flying from San Diego to Pittsburgh and back. Long may it remain unpictured! Presumed worst parts (in chronological order): Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois OK to the Rockies I-80 across Wyo (time permitting, maybe I’ll drive the Colorado route instead) North Texas bkd

The Problems with Living in Pittsburgh

Here’s the short version: the roads, the weather, and the blue-collar mentality. That doesn’t sound so bad, right? Everywhere’s got at least three problems… Long version: As ever, I know that once I move, I’m going to eventually start thinking about how much easier life would be if I were only back in Pittsburgh. Preemptively

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BKDunn.com Stats for 2012

I don’t get enough traffic to get very interesting metrics. Instead, I get these. Most-Used Search TermsThese are the search terms that were most used to find my site (according to WordPress). Rank Term Last Note 1. diy tv stand 1 Still a bad project. 2. redwood tree NR 3. ford trimotor 3 3. la

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Things That Are No Longer Interesting

This is  a sub-set. Zombies. Their day in the sun should have ended with Shaun of the Dead, which came out in 2004. The zombies’ 15 minutes are up. Adding the word “apocalypse” does not grant the zombie idea any new freshness. “Bacon” as a topic of discussion. Eating bacon is still fine. It’s also

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How People Found My Blog Last Year

The number one source of traffic for my blog is search engines. Crazy, I know. And I like self-evaluation. So, here’s this. The top 20 search terms used to find my blog in 2011: diy tv stand (and what a stand it is…!) forbes field (I have one photograph) ford trimotor (ibid, but at least

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Cell Phone Photo Dump, 2011

Another year, another full flash memory card. Except it wasn’t full. Not by a long shot. Because I didn’t do very much this year but go to class. What a year! What a year. I should probably just start posting these on Facebook instead. Just that I kind of want Facebook to fail, so —

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Spam Trap Wisdom

I get a bunch of spam comments on my blogs. They either get filtered out by the spam filter (!) or stuck in my dark and somewhat dank “pending approval” queue from which they never return. It’s bots that leave them. They’re trying to mess with search algorithms by littering the blogosphere with their URLs.

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Skiing Western Pennsylvania

It was nowhere near as absurd as I thought it would be. Granted, I went to the biggest and best resort Pennsylvania has to offer (Seven Springs, about 55 miles east-southeast of my house), but still: not absurd. One of the cool things about it was that, while pretty nice, it was unapologetically western Pennsylvania.

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Bkdunn.com Top Posts of 2010

Here were the ten most popular posts on bkdunn.com in the year 2010, which thereby richly deserve recognition. I’m omitting the counting numbers because it makes the whole blog seem pathetic. Do-It-Yourself TV Stand and/or Entertainment Center Part 1: Plans and Stuff to By – It’s a crappy entertainment center, but that title is such

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