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The spring is taunting me. Every time I think winter’s over, the next day there’s multiple centimeters of snow on the ground. It’s a day of waiting, really. Next week’s my annual trip to the Southeastern Conference, which is (as … Continue reading →

So I’ve been asked to review a paper for a journal. This is not, in and of itself, a first; in fact, it’s the fifth such request of me in the past two years. The journal making this request of … Continue reading →

Anyone else notice that I mainly seem to update this site on Tuesdays? I got a paper through our library’s wonderful Document Delivery Service today. Rather than actually passing pieces of paper around, we get our documents on a website, … Continue reading →

Clevermonkey pointed me to the Safari Bookmark Exporter, solving the main issue I was having with switching from Safari to Firefox. Huzzah! So now I’m-a using Firefox. The great advantage it enjoys (aside from apparently being much less of a … Continue reading →

My first cup of kawphy in any given day is a freebie. Well, I still have to pay for it, probably, but I don’t have to exert myself unduly to get it. If it develops that further kawphy is warranted, … Continue reading →

As I’ve mentioned before, I work on a G5 iMac. Supposed to be blazingly fast, right? I mean, reasonably good processor, reasonably sleek OS, what’s not to like? And yet, I’m constantly seeing delays when switching between tasks. It could … Continue reading →

So I signed up for GMail some time ago. And I got three invitations I could send out; I think I used two of them. After sending out my second, I got five more invitations; these have all been happily … Continue reading →

I was working on a research problem in between watching my room full of students struggle with histograms and standard deviations, and then I suddenly saw it. The particulars of the “it” in question are probably of no interest to … Continue reading →

The thing I hate about Tuesdays: it’s almost 10:30, and I feel like I’ve been awake for too long. In reality, I’ve only been awake for a little over three hours, but they’ve been three hours before 10:30. I don’t … Continue reading →

OK, perhaps I’m overstating the case. But few things are as disappointing to me as when my first cup of coffee of the day is as bland as the one I’ve got in front of me now. (There are those … Continue reading →