This lecture on subscripting in R is honestly the most satisfying programming course I've had since grade 10.

I'm pretty sure the currently-pinched nerve in the left side of my neck is much more vital than all of the other vital muscles that I damage on a daily basis by doing things like "getting dressed" and "walking to my office chair." I hate my body. 

I am a little frustrated that one of the research organizations that I pretty deeply involved with always gives their annual best paper award to some mind-bogglingly overelaborate attempt to create a taxonomy of concepts that will inevitably be either much more or much less strongly bonded together six months from now, despite the fact that the only audience for such a paper is "first-year students in the discipline who would, as a learning exercise, probably be better served to read three papers that cover the same-ish subject with a little less certainty than the one, so that they can make the connections themselves."

Mainly, I don't really understand this desire to publish summative work. I have colleagues who get really excited at the idea of being able to create new frameworks -- presumably so that they can use these frameworks to undertake important research, rather than for their own sake -- but it's not at all compatible with my learning style and seems counterproductive.