Archive for November, 2006
Thursday, November 30th, 2006
Long-Winded.
When I speak, I tend to use too few words. Alternatively, I may just not be structuring my thoughts and sentences in ways that make immediate sense. The meaning is all there but they tend to be hard to parse. A third possibility is that my speech may not be clear or, even more woefully corrigible, loud enough. For any or all of these reasons, and countless others that were not mentioned, my discourses are short and infrequent.
Same with the blogging. My writing is labored and I can’t blame my fairly crappy typing since my thoughts are even slower. So not much, infrequently.
But, damn it, I can not stop writing when I write science. I’m presenting a thirty page report tomorrow. In fairness, much of it consists of figures and code. Still. And it’s the follow-up to a previous thirteen page report, on the same topic. Two weeks ago, I could have written the thing as
Use SVR. It’s magical.
and that would have been the end of it.
Moving on to other things I have to write, I think my grad school personal statements are going to be a recapitulation of the stupidly giddy “CMYK” essay I used for the college admissions process. I think I’ll talk about how functional analysis, which I found somewhat useless a year ago, is now underlying the data analysis and the computational chemistry that I am doing at work. Isn’t math swell?
Brother makes fun of me for tagging just about every entry as “incoherent.” This should show him that the tag is fully deserved.
In further Daniel is pathetic news, I am now downloading the Junior Boys album So This Is Goodbye from the ITMS. What sealed the deal was the final line of the review.
Otherwise, this is a make-out album destined to be played most often by loners who, for whatever reason (a crippling breakup, a fear of human contact, the snowman melted, etc.), are only able to commit the act in their minds.
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Thursday, November 30th, 2006
Memories of Garcia Major
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Thursday, November 30th, 2006
Apply for the 2007 Willipedia Board
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Thursday, November 30th, 2006
Caucasian Achievement
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Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
Religion 228T
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Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
Recipes from home
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Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
Other Half
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Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
The Black-White IQ Gap
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Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
Co-ed Bathrooms
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Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
Nescac Football Recruits
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Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
Future of Willipedia
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Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
Low Bidder
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Monday, November 27th, 2006
Socially Awkward Networking
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Monday, November 27th, 2006
EphBoat: Second installment
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Monday, November 27th, 2006
Eating Your Wheaties
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Sunday, November 26th, 2006
Bound by Nature
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Sunday, November 26th, 2006
Here and There
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Sunday, November 26th, 2006
Bajakian ‘95 the Bear
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Saturday, November 25th, 2006
Road to Hell
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Friday, November 24th, 2006
Self Made Author
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Friday, November 24th, 2006
Photo ID, #58
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Thursday, November 23rd, 2006
Miracle Worker
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Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006
Progressive
Here is the latest issue of the Williams Progressive. Although I am not sure what the deal is with publishing an article (ghost?) written by Nancy Pelosi on the front page (requested by the money people?), the rest of this issue has some interesting material. I especially liked Matt Piven’s ‘07 reporting on Election Day [...]
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Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006
To Blog or Not to Blog, That Is the Question
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Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006
Professional.
Like Neal, I am now somewhat of a professional runner. An envelope arrived today containing my winnings from the 10k in Medford just over a week ago. The $25 (in cash) is just sufficient to cover the overdraft fee I incurred to enter the race.
