One of the things I love about Google is that it can open some pretty amazing windows into a broad cross section of humanity. I’m trying to work on a paper for my Distributed Cognition class, and I tossed “this is what I wanted for myself” into my Google search box. This is [...]
Archive for October, 2006
Can’t take my mind off of you
23Oct06I’ve been listening to this song on repeat for the last day or so.
Is Prop 90 really that bad?
17Oct06Some controversy has been happening out here in California about a proposed law called “Prop 90″. Some people think it’s pretty evil, and that it’s going to “make it virtually impossible for our state and local governments to do their job of protecting the wildlife” (as a colleague of mine suggests).
I went and did [...]
Emotion bias
16Oct06I was reading the flickr blog and they mentioned Yahoo’s Time Capsule, which I guess is a digital time capsule that anyone can submit annotated photos to.
It seems like a great idea, but what immediately struck me was the categories Yahoo chose. The ten categories include Love, Anger, Beauty, Now, and Faith, but there [...]
From stir fry
15Oct06Today I made stir fry, finally. I bought all of these vegetables a long time ago, but all we have here for cooking is some old pots with the non-stick coating flaking off. My friend Alex assures me that teflon is inert and that it’s safe to eat, but still… who wants nonstick [...]
Oh Missy
10Oct06For the dance fans, here’s another dance video I recorded with Kate over the summer:
Click here to watch
Problem
06Oct06Friends, family, readers…. if you have time to do the following problem, I would really appreciate it.
Instructions: For each pair, choose which statement is more probable. Please send an email to erik@snowedin.net with answers. For example 1A, 2B, etc. Thank you.
Melissa grew up in Los Angeles. She is a 21 year old undergrad student studying [...]
