Archive for June, 2007
Saturday, June 30th, 2007
A Call?
But why do I have this compulsion to make other peoples live better. People ask me this all the time and, to be honest, I usually lie. Well maybe more like a fib. I usually say something about how it makes me feel good, or I just like people, or …
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Saturday, June 30th, 2007
The Track.
You know about “The Track”. Or maybe you call it The Plan. You get good grades and go to a good college. You compete for important internships, apply to a top graduate school, making sure that you are getting good grades while working for a great…
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Saturday, June 30th, 2007
Mad As Hell
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Friday, June 29th, 2007
Finished Object: Flower Basket Shawl
Pattern: Flower Basket Shawl from Interweave KnitsYarn: El Coyote Ranch 100% Mohair, one hankNeedles: 4.0 mm, US Size 6Finished Size: about 50” wide and 27” tallComments:1) Yet another little shawl. Apparently, I am incapable of making an average-s…
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Friday, June 29th, 2007
Post Graduate
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Thursday, June 28th, 2007
What is Obvious about Designing? and How to Apply It
I wrote up a few thoughts on Robert Hoekman’s Designing the Obvious (New Riders, 2007) and have some suggestions gleaned from that that I’m considering implementing in my applications. I think that following these thoughts will move the business forward in terms of Ease of Use and Design.
What is Obvious about Designing?
Robert Hoekman’s book [...]
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Thursday, June 28th, 2007
Cole Field?
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Thursday, June 28th, 2007
Sigma Xi
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Thursday, June 28th, 2007
Talk to the author
It’s happened to me quite often: I’m in a bookstore, and an author is doing a signing. It’s an author I know nothing about, and I’m pretty darned sure I won’t buy his or her book. So I avoid the signing table. The last thing I want is someone pressurin…
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
A planned city–Brasilia
Two Wednesdays ago, I went to Brasilia—the capital of Brazil. I explored a little bit of the city, including a visit to “The Lúcio Costa Space,” where I saw the miniature plan of Brasilia, which is shaped like an airplane, and learned more about…
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
Williams in Fiction
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
Investment Office Update
The College’s latest list of hires includes Bradford Wakeman in the Investment Office. (Previous discussion of the investment office and Wakeman here. Note that we are the top two hits on Google for Collette Chilton. Beware the power of EphBlog.)
Regular readers, of course, knew about Wakeman’s hiring three months ago. More recent news, judging from [...]
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
Curses, by Kevin Huizenga
Another graphic novel I picked up at a whim, a whim largely underpinned by the presence of birds on the cover…
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
Worlds Enough and Time, by Dan Simmons
A collection of short stories by the author of the Hyperion books. Good stuff, I think. Simmons is not lyrical, by any means, but he comes up with some great plots and ideas. “Searching for Kelly Dahl,” a story about a school teacher and his former student, in which the latter’s troubled [...]
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Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
Cartography
Agh, been bad again. Another dry spell. I have had things to write about in the past month, but now they’re gone. Instead, I present you with a map my brother and I presented to my sister to guide her through her future haunts.
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Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
Using Facebook as a Comparative Distribution Advantage … Are you doing it?
As a technology nerd, I try to keep up with the trends in business so that I can anticipate where new business opportunities or just generally interesting stuff might pop up.
One trend I’ve been following lately is the proliferation of “platform” APIs for social networks like Facebook. Facebook is a site to [...]
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Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
Potential Econ Thesis in Western Mass.
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Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
Participate
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Monday, June 25th, 2007
Cello.
Cello status: still broken. “Sorry, cello. This is where you get off.”
But I’m in better shape than I was yesterday. My mother was able to track down a neighbor who plays cello, and I borrowed his instrument to play at my parents’ anniversary party, which was the ultimate cause of this whole mess. When not performing (with my brother on the violin), I was sociable and worked the room as much as one can work a room when out of doors.
I won’t be taking the cello back with me tomorrow. For the case to provide any protection at all, the cello it contains must be intact to the point of being a mostly-rigid body. Even when it’s fixed, I don’t think it would be wise to subject it to the same stresses that broke it the first time. So the plan, as I see it now, is to return with my bows and my case. Once I’m back in Boston, I’ll start hunting for a new cello. It’ll be a chance to put some of my ill-gotten pharma-dollars to good use.
More details (and pictures!) later once I have a connection that is not AOL dial-up.
Also, my sister is awesome. We took turns reading “The Waste Land” out loud to my mother and completely failed at entertaining her.
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Monday, June 25th, 2007
More on College Rankings
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Monday, June 25th, 2007
Agbra
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Monday, June 25th, 2007
StudentsReview
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Sunday, June 24th, 2007
My Heart Country
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Saturday, June 23rd, 2007
Girls Gone Mild
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Saturday, June 23rd, 2007
Complete 180
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Friday, June 22nd, 2007
Cougars, Tigers and Ephs — Oh My!
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Thursday, June 21st, 2007
Beautiful Horizon
Belo Horizonte (BH; “beautiful horizon”) is a lovely city, not only for its parks, museum, and churches, but also for its people. At first, I found it strange that passersby often engage me in little conversations that they’ve freed from the solitu…
