Archive for March, 2008

In other news.

Monday, March 24th, 2008

The masters’ project: turned in this morning. As with so many things, not what we originally envisioned, and not as good as we might have imagined … but it’s done, and the yeoman’s work we put in over the last two weeks shows, I think. Our advisor seems to genuinely think we did [...]

“… any one day in the Olduvai Gorge was a lot like any other.”

Monday, March 24th, 2008

Via a short post by the pithy, marvelous Paul Ford:
Why We’re Powerless To Resist Grazing On Endless Web Data

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Dr. Biederman first showed a collection of photographs to volunteer test subjects, and found they said they preferred certain kinds of pictures monkeys in a tree or a group of houses along a river over others an [...]

Heading down to DC

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

Heading down to DC

Our masters project is due in a week. So of course I’m on a Greyhound
bus heading down to Silver Spring for 24 hours, solo, carrying a pile
of gear and thankful beyond words for the social network I’ve got.
When I found out only last night exactly where [...]

Running to stand still

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

The treadmill of the second semester here has been ratcheted up several degrees of incline and had the speed noticeably increased. I’m feeling mentally breathless. Lots of projects and pieces are coming together at the very last minute, and while this hasn’t bitten me (badly) yet, I’m just waiting for something to completely [...]

turns of phrase and dinner

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Went out with friends Saturday night; I’m trying to reserve one night a week to do something social, just to take my head briefly away from journalism. We went back to Szechuan Gourmet. Most of the things we ordered were excellent, but one thing that Brian ordered near the end of the meal [...]