Hey, so can I ask a favor? I'm trying to estimate how long a particular experiment will take. The experiment consists of reading sentence fragments like: "Before the player pitched..." and then completing them in some way that seems reasonable. If any of you have a few minutes on your hands, could you do the following? Copy-past the 10 sentence ( Read more... )

One of the things I like best about my job (and there are many) is that no one tells me when or where to do it. One day, I might be in the office at 8am, stay till 4 with no break for lunch, the next I might not bother coming in to the office and work at home - a couple hours here, a couple there, with lots of breaks to do laundry, run errands, ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday, Bear! In honour of this very special day, I baked you a cake. And then for breakfast I ate a very big slice. With coffee and pomegranate juice. It was delicious. If you have nothing else to do today, it's only 6 hours from your house to mine. Head west to Toledo, north on the 23, west again on the 96 and you're more or less there ( Read more... )

A semi random list of things on my mind ( Read more... )

I just got through with setting my very first exam! As a TA I helped choose questions for exams, I invigilated exams and I certainly graded a boatload of exams, but this was my first go at writing the whole thing myself. I think it went well. From a quick glance through the results, I think my students are actually learning something. I think I ( Read more... )

Today so far I have ( Read more... )

It's been 28 days since I last made a post to lj. The last day I had off was 29 days ago. Coincidence? You be the judge ( Read more... )

LJ has become something I stink at! This is unacceptable, but also kind of undeniable. I don't even remember the last time I logged in, forget about actually managed to read my flist. I keep meaning to. Really. I get up in the morning and I think 'lj! today I will lj!. And I get to work and I'm still thinking 'lj, there will be lj'. And then I ( Read more... )

I promised writteninstars I wouldn't disappear again without letting her know that I have not, in fact, run away to join the circus. I'm on the verge of breaking the agreement, I can't remember when I last found time to poke my head into lj. One factor keeping me away from you all is that my next door neighbours who were generously (= ignorantly) supplying me ( Read more... )