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Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

A Topic for the Women’s Center

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Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

So. My little fiefdom within Johnson & Johnson finally decided to hire me. Providentially, the start date was February 13th, my birthday. Along with the nice signing bonus and feeling of affirmation, I got several stacks of paperwork to deal with. But these stacks, when properly filled out, give me cool things like medical insurance, which I’ve been doing without for a bit too long.

Work has been going very well, although I’ve felt like I’ve been in a bit of an intellectual slump recently. But I’ve got comment back on my vehicle solubility model project, so I’ll get to play with beloved support vector regression once again.

In the relative downtime, I’ve also worked my toolkit into very good shape. I’ve been working through the Software Carpentry lecture notes, which serve as a sort of Introduction to Software Engineering for ~~Dummies~~Scientists. My somewhat kludgy Emacs/LaTeX/R/Sweave development environment has been largely with Emacs/Python. I rarely use my mouse these days.

“Hey, this is sark1127, we’re sort of dating.” That was definitely not how I introduced Sarah to the Washburn Terrace folks before we went off with Seth to Jews on Ice. Because, of course, it would have been a very juvenile and affected-cutesy way of doing things. And because I don’t use people’s LiveJournal user names in the place of real names.