MIT: “no”. Carnegie Mellon HCI Institute: “no”. Sigh.
Archive for February, 2004
Employment Ho
27Feb04Woo Hoo! I just heard I got an interview for the UConn Library job I applied for! In terms of convenience, it’s my dream position… it’s 28 hours a week (fits nicely with my Daily Jolt job,) it’s a management position, it should pay much better than the FexEx job it would replace, [...]
Kerry is loaded
26Feb04I wouldn’t have guessed it, but John Kerry is worth about an order of magnitude more than George W. Bush and at least twice as much as Dick Cheney. According to “The Center for Public Integrity” (not sure how legitimate it is,) Kerry is worth upwards of 200 million. Bush, on the other [...]
Christianity Disassembled
24Feb04I just added this to my ideas, but I thought I would repost it in my journal, because it’s something I have been thinking about lately:
How do I really understand Christianity? What do I think it means to most people? I think it is a combination of things:
Mysticism, “A belief in the existence [...]
Ha has
23Feb04I rarely find the comics laugh-out-loud funny, but this quote, from an article on the current Haitian uprising in the “The Americas” section of the paper gave me a chuckle:
A State Department spokesman Sunday night condemned the attack on Cap-Haitien, saying the Bush administration considers change through violence unacceptable.
Bad money
22Feb04So, I incurred $17.01 in finance charges for my credit card last month by using checks I though were 0% financing. I think Niamh gets a little frustrated with my second-rate detail-tracking abilities. She’s probably right to.
Nothing becomes something
21Feb04I read an article in discover magazine a long time ago, about a fellow named David Deamer and his research into how cells could be come to be without other cells pre-existing them.
The basic idea is that simple molecules which were common on earth when life appears to have begun combine to form sugar phosphates [...]
Music
17Feb04Maps, by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs is the kind of track that wants me to start a mix. Unfortunately, it’s inspiring because it’s new in my ear, and therefore I haven’t yet heard the songs it leads into.
I have some other tracks I started putting together at Niamh’s–Van Morrison’s Jackie Wilson Said, [...]
Embarassing musical tastes
12Feb04A while ago I wrote an entry about Avril Levigne’s song, “I’m With You”. I just wanted to report that it’s been like a year since this teenage pseudo-punk popstress’s overplayed song hit the radio, I’m 22 years old, and I still like it. This is vaguely embarrassing, but it’s the truth. [...]
Late bits
10Feb04I spent the weekend at Cornell for the Psychology Department’s recruitment weekend. It was really cool, and now I’m really hoping they make an offer.
There were essentially three other prospectives in the cognitive division who I was in competition with. They were all good enough candidates that I wouldn’t feel robbed if I [...]
