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UCSD Dancesport Competition: 3rd in lindy hop!
This past Saturday a small expedition of us headed down to UCSD for their annual competition. Wendy and I signed up for quite a few dances, not really expecting to place in any of them. This was particularly the case with the nightclub dances; unlike the Caltech competition, which had separate levels for beginner and intermediate dances (we placed ( Read more... ) -
Bowler hat autograph: Richard Stallman
Richard Stallman signed my bowler hat yesterday, after he gave a talk at Caltech. w00t. -
T-shirts with optical illusions? (or other cog-sci apparel?)
I've been trying to find some good t-shirts (or other apparel?) with optical illusions. Have you seen any good ones lately? I've listed some of what I've found so far down below ( Read more... ) -
Dream log: Ray Charles shooting rampage
Last night I had a dream about Ray Charles on a shooting rampage. Despite being blind, he was able to use super-hearing ability to accurately pinpoint the location of his victims. Midway through the rampage, a mafia guy with a tommy-gun tried to fire back, but Ray Charles managed to take him down. Eventually Adam Sandler ended the rampage by ( Read more... ) -
Interocular trauma test
I've been reading through the fMRI textbook by Huettel et al, and I rather enjoyed this little sidebar glossary text from the chapter on statistical analysis:
interocular trauma test: An intuititve test of significance based on highly visible effects of the experimental manipulation. It states that data are significant if, when plotted, they hit ( Read more... ) -
pre-Viennese Waltz Night
The annual Caltech-Occidental Viennese Waltz Night is tonight. This is an event where a chamber orchestra from Occidental College will come and perform while people dance the Viennese waltz on the floor below. I've only had one lesson, and vwaltz is a -very- fast and confusing dance, so tonight should be interesting ( Read more... ) -
Miis: Firefly, our house
I've posted some photos of various Miis I've created on the Wii, including the entire crew of Firefly's Serenity, Chuck Norris, Trinity from the Matrix, Scully from the X-Files, Michael Jackson, Einstein, Dora the Explorer, Buddy Holly and Mary Tyler Moore ( Read more... ) -
Comp results
So finally, a report on last Saturday's dance competitionIn the morning we danced bronze and silver East Coast Swing, which was fun but we actually performed pretty badly. I botched the leads on a number of moves (we didn't have a routine or anything). Also, I tried swiveling my torso a little on my rocksteps, which is something that people tend to ( Read more... ) -
On dancing
So, tomorrow's ballroom competition should be fun, but I have a suspicion that I might want to make it both my first and last competition. It's becoming increasingly clear that I enjoy social dancing much more than competitive dancing. When I'm dancing, I'm happier if my goal is to make whoever I'm dancing with happy, rather than if my goal is to ( Read more... )
