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linky.

29 July 2008 at 18:14 » Comments (0)

Academic Productivity » Three tips to increase your chances of pleasing a journal editor
Scroll down. Despite what the beginning says, the tips are at the bottom.

  



more music for writing, or, netlabels are a grad student’s best friend

26 July 2008 at 22:45 » Comments (0)

I downloaded a bunch of stuff recently and have been slowly working through it while working on my dissproposal. I recommend:
ROZA - GLitch ov Batumi
What we really like about the album is that it’s almost impossible to characterize it in a matter of specific musical genre or style. This is the music which […]



ppm?

26 July 2008 at 12:34 » Comments (0)

How interesting. Lifehacker, den of PIM hobbyists, links to a Fleshbot post asking: How do you organize your porn?. The post currently has 49 comments. Personal Porn Management, a subactivity of PIM.
Don’t click on that last link if you are in a place where it is inappropriate to view porn. Or if you just think […]



good old academic snark.

14 July 2008 at 19:49 » Comments (0)

From: Koschmann, Timothy, Kuutti, Kari and Hickman, Larry. (1998) The Concept of Breakdown in Heidegger, Leont’ev, and Dewey and Its Implications for Education. Mind, Culture, and Activity 5:1, 25 — 41
Indeed, in some cases the authors themselves recognized such links. Leont’ev (1981), for example, made reference to the writings of both Heidegger and […]



web survey instrument design 101

11 July 2008 at 11:29 » Comments (1)

1. Your web survey must allow respondents to go back to the previous answer or page of answers.
2. It must allow this without clearing all of the data they have already entered.
I am a researcher. I care about research in general. I care about the topic of the survey which prompted this post. […]



resolution.

10 July 2008 at 15:29 » Comments (0)

Comps defense: PASSED.
Not really surprising, but it feels great.
Had a lovely lunch with my advisor and a committee member, stopped by Weaver Street Market on the way home for a bottle of cava for later this evening, took a nap snuggled up with my cats, and am now ready to get back to work. […]



excitement.

10 July 2008 at 8:50 » Comments (2)

Oral comps defense imminent.
At 11 am EST. (Early for this 2am-10am-natural-sleep-schedule owl… ouch)
I must finish my protein-ful (and coffee-ful) breakfast and get out the door.
(also, emacs and I have begun a beautiful relationship. it’s about time. mmm AUCTeX. mmm Org mode.)
  



if i were a superhero…

4 July 2008 at 11:35 » Comments (0)

From ICHCB, of course.