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[Jul. 21st, 2008|02:14 pm] |
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Quickie note - my LA photos site has change servers. It's now over here. (It may also be changing names one of these days; I haven't decided yet.) I'll be dumping new photos on it sporadically for the rest of the month, and then fleeing to Mexico. ;) |
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[Aug. 31st, 2007|11:10 pm] |
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(snagged from ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ellenmillion)
I'm slightly disappointed at my science/math score, but it's probably because I haven't seen an integral in a decade. |
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[Aug. 28th, 2007|09:45 pm] |
Ben and I are both back in our respective states. :( However, I still have Albuquerque photos! These were all taken at the University of New Mexico. (You can start here if you've already seen the Sandia Peak ones.) |
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| Recipes |
[Aug. 20th, 2007|07:34 pm] |
If you like cooking and sharing recipes, head over to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) recipecllctn and start posting. (You can also use the tags list to find interesting food, but please add your favorite dishes too.) |
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[Aug. 17th, 2007|10:51 pm] |
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Added Sherman Oaks pictures to Portraits of a City (aka "that LA photos site"). Also put frames around the image galleries in the hopes of making navigation easier. Let me know if anything weird shows up. |
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| Trees and Clouds |
[Aug. 11th, 2007|08:21 pm] |
Ben and I drove up to Sandia Peak a couple of days ago. (That is to say, he was doing the driving.) Here are pictures!
Also, can anyone identify this insect? They were all over the place. |
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| Lookie! Photos! |
[Aug. 5th, 2007|10:02 pm] |
If you've spent any time in LA then you know that it feels less like a coherent city and more like a big amoebalike sprawl of different cities, languages and lifestyles, oftentimes spilling into each other at the edges. That's something I find fascinating about it.
For the longest time I've wanted to make a photo site based around that idea and this summer I finally had the time to put it together:
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~lia/laphoto/
This will be an ongoing project -- it's partly to show off photos, but also my own way of exploring a city I grew up in but never really knew. Granted there's very little actual content at the moment, but I'm gradually sorting through the mess of old photos on my computer so updates will happen (even if I'm not actually in LA ;) ).
In the meantime, enjoy!
(Oh and let me know if you think of an alternate title.) |
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| Summer Update |
[Aug. 5th, 2007|10:03 am] |
I'm in Albuquerque now, spending the rest of the month with Ben -- probably the longest stretch of time we've had together since grad school started. He's been busy with school/grading and I've been raiding his campus library for research material and we've generally just been doing mundane things together and enjoying the spectacular New Mexico summer thunderstorms. So happy. Oh yes, and I'm now addicted to the Phoenix Wright series; you can probably guess whose fault that is.
Also been working on another project (related to the flickr question in the previous post) but that'll get a separate post later today. |
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| Flickr |
[Jul. 19th, 2007|02:43 pm] |
Have you used Flickr? What do you think of it? What's it good at, what's it bad at? What sort of funky stuff have you done with it? And what's up with that map thing?
Also how customizable is the site design? (Not LJ-style insane tweakability, obviously but can you at least change the background color?)
I'm considering getting an account for a little project I've been working on. Their online tour makes it sound awesome (of course), but what's it like to actually use? |
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[Jun. 26th, 2007|11:16 pm] |
Hey, looks like I'm on the alumni e-newsletter -- guess that MA counted for something after all. Fundraiser calls will be interesting:
"Hi, would you care to make a small contrib--"
"Sorry, poor graduate student here. Come back in ten years."
"Yes we know grad students don't have much, but if you'd like to sign up for our deferral plan --" [1]
"No, you don't understand, I'm still paying tution to YOUR university.[2] That degree ain't helping my paycheck much."
Or I could just say "I'm already contributing to the university by teaching people like you. Have you ever taken an introductory anthropology course? What do you mean you're an English major - that's no excuse!" :D
[1] Not making this up. They bill you at the end of the quarter, when your stipend comes in.
[2] Not entirely true. TAships cover tuition -- or "registration fees," as they are being called now. But we also get dinky salaries and can't take outside jobs so I like to think of it as paying in labor rather than cash. Not that I'm complaining. |
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[May. 17th, 2007|10:24 am] |
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Quick FYI for AIMmers - I'll be in Berkeley until probably Tuesday and internet may be scarce. See you next week! |
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[Apr. 4th, 2007|07:18 am] |
I'm on campus right now. It's really quiet without all the students around -- I should do this more often. Yeah, right. :) |
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| Spring Break update |
[Mar. 25th, 2007|11:04 pm] |
For those who have not been told already, I have finally achieved my Master's!
The thesis was filed earlier this month, barely making the deadline for Winter quarter. Ironically enough, my laptop died the weekend before said deadline. However[1], it revived long enough to retrieve my thesis so nothing was lost except a dozen bibliographic entries which were sitting in a pile by the computer anyway. It was also under warranty (us grad students do occasonally learn from our mistakes). All in all, I feel pretty fortunate and am now a better educated member of society by three years and two letters.
[1] My advisor says that starting a sentence with "however" is bad form. But it's a really hard habit to break. Come to think of it, so is writing footnotes.
After that was the week of grading hell (60 five-page essays on the exact same subject and nearly 300 versions of the exact same two exam questions) so celebration had to wait for a few days and eventually came in the form of sleep.
Celebration and unproductivity ensued, in the form of....
- receiving laptop back from repairs,
- hanging out with my brother, (hi Ed!)
- (starting and) finishing Myst,
- cleaning my room and sorting a year's worth of papers and notes,
- reading several novels,
- reading CLAMP manga in Spanish,
- doing laundry,
- sorting finances and figuring out tax related stuff,
- sleeping.
The near future includes cleaning the bathroom, possibly drawing, and a trip to visit Ben. ^^
Myst was much smaller and not nearly as difficult as I'd expected (expecially given my frustrations over Riven back in college). Of course, approaching the game like an obsessive cartographer may help. The laptop is doing fine and the repair guys were kind enough to replace the keyboard as well, so my touch-typing skills are no longer nearly as impressive.
Ed is in town for grad recruitment. He currently has several excellent physics programs fighting over him and just received an awesome fellowship. Yes, shameless boasting, but big sisters are allowed. :) |
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[Dec. 28th, 2006|02:11 pm] |
Things are pretty low-key here. As a couple people already know, we ended up cancelling our usual New York trip for reasons I won't go into in a public post. (But rest assured - everything's fine and more importantly everyONE is fine.) The immediate family is all here, though -- Ed (bremsstrahlung) flew down for a couple weeks and has been gradually taking over the kitchen. And I get to spend more time with Ben (byackley), so it's been a pretty good holiday overall. :)
We took a post-Christmas trip to Fry's and came home with a mini-blender (for me) and a wireless router (for everyone). Ed set up the router last night so now we have joined the 21st century and can pack up the 50 foot red ethernet cable that's been wandering all over the place. :D He also got the DS online which means...well, we'll see what that means.
I should go and get some actual writing and/or reading done. |
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[Nov. 1st, 2006|07:10 am] |
ZOMG MIDTERM!
(And I don't have to take it!)
kthanxbye |
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[Sep. 26th, 2006|02:48 pm] |
FYI I'm back in the US.
Summer went well, got a lot done and got to spent some time with friends. Of course, now I have to sit down and actually write my thesis, but at least half the job's done.
Classes start on Thursday and this marks my first year as a TA so any suggestions on what (not) to do would be much appreciated. The university is pretty good about training us, at least -- this past week we've all been workshopped and oriented to death and given useful (and sometimes contradictory) tips and tricks. First-time TAs also have to sign up for a quarter-long dept-specific training class ... which is meeting at 8 in the morning this year because we all have crazy schedules. >-<
Tomorrow we have a meeting with the prof and get to wrestle each other for the cushy afternoon discussion sections.
EDIT 9/27: Thanks for all the advice -- I'm taking notes! Will write responses after the prof meeting once I have a clearer idea of what the heck we're supposed to be doing.
EDIT 9/29:
Okay it sounds like discussion sections are going to be partly review of lecture and partly going over the homework (which is basically study questions from the textbook). Fairly straightforward -- except we're apparently supposed to go over the material from the *previous* week, not the current one, which will make Thursday and Friday sections a bit confusing.
Because it's such a big class, the prof wants to keep material standardized across all 18 sections. So we divvied up the syllabus and every week one TA will prepare a "module" (generalized lesson plan) for the following week's sections and give it to everyone else along with handouts, exercises, etc. Which means less work (assuming one's fellow TAs write good lesson plans ;) ) but also less room for innovation. So I may have to save some of your ideas for use in other classes later on in the year. :) |
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| Hasta Luego! |
[Jul. 21st, 2006|10:47 pm] |
Leaving for Mexico. Will return end of August. I won't be posting in this journal but can be contacted in the usual ways. (If you don't know what those are, leave a comment here - they get emailed.) |
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[Jun. 4th, 2006|03:28 am] |
I
Got
Data!! |
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geeky
loved
artistic
awake
rested? could it be?
bouncy