We Are Doomed. Just like the title says. An open-source robot has taught itself to use a bow and arrow ( Read more... )

So I spent most of today reading my Master's dissertation to figure out which part is best for a writing sample, given the information I got during my phonecall to a PhD department contact two Fridays ago. It didn't make for a very exciting day (especially combined with feeling sort of vaguely crappy all day: sore throat, light congestion, mild ( Read more... )

Sooooo it's obviously been ages since I posted at all, which is crappy, and I'd apologize, but I'm pretty sure there are about 4 people who even read this anymore, if that...Oh, well. If anybody does, I'm interested in doing the top 5's meme, because I love memes XD I'll put it at the bottom in case you don't know how it works already ( Read more... )

GRE successfully taken - 700 verbal, 650 math (writing TBA because there's not insta-grading). I wish verbal had been better because on the practice tests I got 730, 750, and 710 in that order, so obviously I screwed something up a little in the actual exam, but oh, well! It's still pretty solid IMO. Anyway it's over, and I'm SUPER excited for ( Read more... )

Ugh taking a break from GRE studying. I haven't been doing it nearly enough as it is, but good lord is it dull. Plus it wants me to go through the verbal stuff first and keeps saying "you should really work on your vocabulary! Really! You don't know enough words!" and it's just nonsense: they haven't had a single word I've not heard in the book so ( Read more... )

It's been a while again, whoops ( Read more... )

Today, I time-travelled. Or: Adventures in Banking.

So today, the only thing I had to do (besides help avatar1983 pick up a TV stand from Barnsley) was go to the bank and get some money moved around. I needed to find out how much savings I had, transfer some savings to my "current" (read: checking) account, and transfer a good chunk of that in turn to ( Read more... )

Ugh how does such a long time elapse between entries and I don't even notice? Bleh. Then again, since so many people seem to be abandoning LJ in stages (and I can't really blame most people - it's dying tiny deaths every day, it just makes keeping up with people harder), it's not like anyone is concerned for my post-count. Still ( Read more... )

Sooooo it's been like a week and a bit again. I don't really know how this keeps happening, since I used to have a1½-ish posts-per-day average, but I also guess I can't keep starting entries like this if it's becoming a habit. Whoops ( Read more... )

Completely by accident while Googling for scans of the Déor MS (Exeter Cathedral Library MS 3501, if you wondered), I just ran across an article that Philip wrote! I actually did a double-take and blinked at the byline a few times before I understood/accepted that I knew the person who had written this article that Google just gave me. Bizarre ( Read more... )