Meet with Andrew
Meeting for Division C P&T (from 3:00pm until somewhere near 9:00pm)--in I105 no less.
Meet at Hutton Honor's College (Sunday)
Meet with Hutton Honor's College (Private)
Write letter of nomination.
Meet with Scott
I've finished The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language. It's more of a survey, but informative; there is a decent mix of philosophy, biology, and speculation. Like "Nutureshock" I have to post notes later. I will post my first exam which included readings from by MacFarlane, The Information Paradox by Thorp, and Doubt by Hect. These may be a strange trio--and they are. MacFarlane's book as a fascinating social network of accusations. It bares an eerie similarity to Facebook (in its connections). Thorp's book discusses the apparent dogma that technology improves situations, but somehow the improvement is elusive to quantify or even formally recognize. This is particular true with IT. Hecht's book offers a "doubters" quiz. I was interested in seeing where on the scale they stand. We'll see tomorrow.
Meet with Chris
I'll be doing the accounting for my class and the Lotus Festival. I paid for the ticket, if a student attended. My order of 16 books, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat was delivered to another address--similar to mine. Unfortunately, the resident disposed of the books somehow (I'm thinking burning, but using them for the small, loud dog--think birdcage--is another alternative). I'm contacting various state and federal agencies to see if this somewhat mean-spirited reproach is actionable. I hope it is--not the least of which is because I'd like my items back LOL. I presume the resident is unfamiliar with any technology post 1960--so, this blog will be unread. - 3:58 PM
Jim and Lisa have graduated and now reside on the east coast in a beautiful--but haunted--house. Our paper--really the core of Jim's work--Gene networks in Drosophila melanogaster: integrating experimental data to predict gene function in Genome Biology. The work is the first integration of genome-wide experimental data for fly. Jim's post-doc'ing at Collin's lab studying sythetic and systems biology. Lisa's at Brown doing her post-doc. Moving Jim's furniture with DL, Scott, Brian (and eventually...eventually Richie and his new sidekick) was a study in how a collectin of Type A personalities that run the gamut of OCD, which needs to be treated because it's so severe (Scott had to take calming breaths as we stacked boxes) to OCD, which needs to be treated because it's so severed (I wanted to understand why anyone would move cardboardesque furniture). BTW, a shoutout and apology to Jim's mother. I didn't know it was a gift, but in my defense, Jim couldn't explain what it actually was.
My 2nd year honors class is a blast. I'll be posting images and URLs from them too. There was even a waiting list to get in LOL. Unfortunately, like Charlie: they are locked in. Props to Nick for wearing Harry Potter's cloak LOL.
Kan's brother passed away two months ago. Oakley was a remarkable canine--wildly tempermental, mischievious, and loving. Kan and I both miss him. Kan's doing very well--our last daily walk he tried to bring down a deer. He's feral; I don't care what anyone has to say.
Justen and I are continuing Jim's work--and I have a number of projects ongoing. Being on the P&T committee eats up a lot of time--but it's important--especially in light of the changes this year at IU.
The Lotus Festival is this week. I can't say for sure, but it seems a couple of the flowers I worked on a couple of years ago are floating amongst the pages LOL. I did graphics anonymously for Lotus as succor for someone who, as it turns out, is really an insect. Now, with a priori help from me, which I solemnly regret, it (the afore mentioned insect) has managed to burrrow its way into a medical school and infest other people. I had thought an email (what I know now as a disingenuous response to an initial email from me about a graduation) was nothing more than mimicking friendly, human communication. Okay--it's what insects do, right? Or don't do--no disrespect to people who own "pet" roaches. But my gut tells me, the roaches would be in the same (lack of) state of mind, rollining crap in the wild as they would be housed in a cup (rolling in crap). In the end, being an insect is its own unawares punishment. One fewer bug in Bloomington. octies novem: sit omni genere laborum fatigatue exorit.
Today we review the three cases of our division...Division C. I don't know why it's C. I'm a faculty fellow for Briscoe--we need to set a time to all meet. NP hard for sure. I've given Josh a code so his "association" (of 250 people) (which I doubt) and all watch Sunny in Philoflorida or some such.
I just finished reading Nuture Shock by Bronson and Merryman. Not very technical, but an excellent collection (compiled by the authors) of recent work by scientists on cognitive research of growing-up. Much of the mythos of raising and dealing with the young and young adults are directly studied--and some provocative (at least for now) results have begun to emerge. As I write this, I wonder about the results had the scientists studied insects too? I've finished three others this week--but time, the devourer calls me thither. I'll look for the books' images--makes it so much more palatable when recommending them.
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