I was just watching this music video (Jack’s Mannequin - The Mixed Tape) and I was thinking about the style of animation they are using and how it reminds me of the ads that VH1 was doing a while back that were really cool looking. And I was thinking about the conversation Tiffanie and [...]
Archive for November, 2005
Heads in jars
22Nov05To all the people on Planet Informatics, I re-did the jar template (which I had lost) and created head-in-a-jar icons for a bunch of the new people. If you don’t have a head or don’t like your head, feel free to download the photoshop template and make your own and then email me a [...]
What about
21Nov05I’m worried about talking to someone tomorrow
about my future
about my labels
about a future conversation that I don’t understand
about paperwork
about my body
about a marathon
about my grades
about my work
about love
about lust
about my clothes
about my priorities
about my place
about my family
about a lot of things.
I am listening to “The Only Living Boy In New York” and imagining a different [...]
Two things
18Nov05I just realized: Despite my beliefs hitherto, I have never eaten a peanut–only peanut butter.
I would very much like to see the new Pride and Prejudice movie. This has nothing to do with Keira Knightly.
Stuck at home with the flu
11Nov05Watched In America. Cried.
I felt a lot of things, but they aren’t things I can really put here. So they’re going into the unpublished archives along with all of the others. Maybe some day I’ll let them out.
What was the last thing you did with a computer that really mattered to you? I recently played a game of Go with my brother, connected with him over a thousand miles. That meant something to me. I have some photos I took at Brown County State Park on Saturday and I [...]
Go ‘head get down
09Nov05If you want to see what I do in my office all day, turn up the volume and play this video. (warning, explicit lyrics)
That’s how we get down in Informatics.
In genomics, brute force searches are often infeasible. They find either no matches or too many. So bioinformaticists need to use clever heuristics to narrow the search space or the results. This is an immensely creative process that requires intimate knowledge of both biology and code. This is what makes the [...]
Prediction
08Nov05About two years ago while riding a bus in Pittsburg I saw a girl on the sidewalk wearing pants cut like this. I remember thinking that they were awefully narrow at the ankle, yet they didn’t seem totally lame. They were different than tapered jeans we wore in the eighties somehow—are a little [...]
Transdisciplinarity
06Nov05Erik (the new head of the HCI program) just sent out an announcement of a new journal he is editing, which “strives to promote transdisciplinary design research.”
Transdisciplinary? I am thinking, I have heard of interdisciplinary, but transdisciplinary?
Thankfully, Google is always there to answer our questions, and it found a useful mailing list post which [...]
