The Problem with Publishing

Here's a thorough examination of academic publishing over at The Atlantic:

Scientific Publishing is a Joke: An XKCD comic – and its many remixes – perfectly captures the absurdity of academic research.

I won't belabor the points, just go read the article.  Also, here's the cartoon in question: <permalink>

OK, got all that?  Personally I'm glad to have this opportunity to step off the grant-and-paper-go-round.  At least for the moment.  Who knows what the future holds?  Not sure I want to find out ahead of time.

That reminds me, I've got to track down the status of those last three papers today.  Got to keep the CV fed.