Sorry for the complete lameness of this morning - I had exactly 3 minutes between finishing a data analysis training session and our first subject arriving and I did *promise* to post on Wednesday and somehow 3 minutes was just enough time for a bad pun ( Read more... )

The OED word of the day today is crustaceous. Lovely word, yeah? Even better, the OED provides lots of nice citations of its usage. Here's my very, very favourite:

1921 A. L. SMITH Lichens iii. 72 Some crustaceous lichens have a persistently scanty furfuraceous crust.
Is that not a magnificent sentence? Don't you wish your life provided more ( Read more... )

Eeeee! So, um, I think I'm going to London for a week in early March ( Read more... )

I'm here! I'm here in Boston. And more specifically I'm here at MIT. I'm home. Life is good. Later tonight there shall be gluttony of the beer and burgers variety with Kovsky (I've been chatting with Swmbo about how utterly fabulous my Cape Cod burger is going to be for the past hour or so). Over the next several days there shall be much gluttony ( Read more... )

some rather nifty things ( Read more... )