More life, and dreams
Had a great, very social weekend. Socially saturated myself, in fact. This is a good thing. Saw saucygirl perform. She was fabulous. Went to a quite good party with the babe*. Much fun. Actually, I think she had more fun than I did. This is a good thing. Had good conversations with the babe, old friends, new friends.
Spent almost no time in front of a computer. This is a good thing.
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As per our conversation at dinner:
Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assesments (or the pdf for offline reference).
The letters pH stand for "power of hydrogen" and the numerical value is defined as the negative base 10 logarithm of the molar concentration of hydrogen ions. pH = -log10[H+]
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This situation is resolved. I did something friday that I thought would be a good idea, and it turned out to be more exactly perfect than I could have imagined. All is well.
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The thesis progresses, but not nearly at the rate I'd like. Obviously it was not done Feb 1. Some days are quite productive, and some are utterly wasted. Mostly I get work done after it's dark out, email stops arriving, the phone stops ringing, and I can focus for a good long stretch at a time. It's remarkably like coding, in that regard.
My advisor suggested that 100 pages was a reasonable length, and was in agreement that if whatever I end up with feels too short, I can just pad it with analysis of more examples.
We also discussed several potential places to publish it, several places to present it, a few places to get funding for the talmud project, and a few places to consider a PhD.
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I've had contact, some nibbles, phone sorta-interviews with several local web dev firms about work. No serious bites. On the bright side it looks like a friend may subcontract the IA portion of a fat contract out to me. That'd be a nice way to tide me over for a while.
I'm strangely unconcerned with the whole thing. All in good time.
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Frequently rude or offensive (and funny as hell) holiday e-cards can be found at
http://gbehh.com/cards/index_cards.html
and
http://www.meish.org/vd/
Text may not be work safe, but there are no images to get you fired.
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This morning I dreamed of some of you. Part of it was me visiting grrlpup and sanguinity. Later, Bill Clinton was giving a speech from a podium on a mounted on a vehicle moving slowly through crowded streets. brianfey approached on his own moving platform and engaged Bill in debate. I have no doubt he'd do this very thing, given the appropriate circumstances.
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* This is the babe some of you have met, and not the one mentioned here earlier. That one has been reclassified into "probably just friend" status, until further notice.
Spent almost no time in front of a computer. This is a good thing.
--
As per our conversation at dinner:
Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assesments (or the pdf for offline reference).
The letters pH stand for "power of hydrogen" and the numerical value is defined as the negative base 10 logarithm of the molar concentration of hydrogen ions. pH = -log10[H+]
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This situation is resolved. I did something friday that I thought would be a good idea, and it turned out to be more exactly perfect than I could have imagined. All is well.
--
The thesis progresses, but not nearly at the rate I'd like. Obviously it was not done Feb 1. Some days are quite productive, and some are utterly wasted. Mostly I get work done after it's dark out, email stops arriving, the phone stops ringing, and I can focus for a good long stretch at a time. It's remarkably like coding, in that regard.
My advisor suggested that 100 pages was a reasonable length, and was in agreement that if whatever I end up with feels too short, I can just pad it with analysis of more examples.
We also discussed several potential places to publish it, several places to present it, a few places to get funding for the talmud project, and a few places to consider a PhD.
--
I've had contact, some nibbles, phone sorta-interviews with several local web dev firms about work. No serious bites. On the bright side it looks like a friend may subcontract the IA portion of a fat contract out to me. That'd be a nice way to tide me over for a while.
I'm strangely unconcerned with the whole thing. All in good time.
--
Frequently rude or offensive (and funny as hell) holiday e-cards can be found at
http://gbehh.com/cards/index_cards.html
and
http://www.meish.org/vd/
Text may not be work safe, but there are no images to get you fired.
--
This morning I dreamed of some of you. Part of it was me visiting grrlpup and sanguinity. Later, Bill Clinton was giving a speech from a podium on a mounted on a vehicle moving slowly through crowded streets. brianfey approached on his own moving platform and engaged Bill in debate. I have no doubt he'd do this very thing, given the appropriate circumstances.
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* This is the babe some of you have met, and not the one mentioned here earlier. That one has been reclassified into "probably just friend" status, until further notice.