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It occurs to me that in the future, nobody will read all their email, let alone respond to it. -
Getting there
I took dr_tectonic's advice, and thanks to www.20000-names.com, here's a better study of those results. We're still not at the level I'd quite like to be, but it's getting there.
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CHI: Gender
So after seeing Nick's CHI'06 Geographical Distribution I got interested in other statistical work with the CHI archive. (Rant: fer chrissake, ACM, could you make things be available in any other way than raw HTML? Even some bloody structured HTML would be a step up. I shouldn't be searching for strong tags in an attempt to find names. Get your ( Read more... ) -
Pronounciation
Some of you may have seen my struggles at trying to ask for water at a restaurant in the United States. I have eventually adopted a strong accent for that one word of my order, in which I leave out the 't' altogether. "Can I have some warda, please ( Read more... ) -
should really go and x-post this over on cornell...
for rent for graduation weekend:
2 bedroom house, sleeps 5 (+ 2 on an air mattress). $1200.
(1 queen + 1 single bed in bedrooms + full size futon)
has sauna, wireless internet, weber bbq, good kitchen, garden, plenty of free parking.
7 min walk to buses, 25 minute walk to campus, probably the same or less to IC. -
Kevin Bacon of Wikipedia
I hypothesize that Douglas Adams is the Kevin Bacon of Wikipedia. That is to say, in going from any randomly selected page to any other randomly selected page in Wikipedia just by clicking on links, chances are you'll end up on Douglas Adams's page ( Read more... ) -
define ethnomethodology
I have been trying to write a good definition for ethnomethodology, a field of research founded by Harold Garfinkel, since most of them out there are horribly written and only make sense to people already in the field. Please let me know if this makes sense to you ( Read more... )
