Timely Snow

I’m in Atlanta at the biennial SRCD conference, and then will go to AERA in Montreal next week. Going to two consecutive conferences is a drag, and I’ve had an unusual amount of business to take care of while here—meetings of committees I’m involved with, and other plotting and scheming.

AERA is the bigger group, and [...]

Google Maps – 1041 arlington blvd,ann arbor (click on the “Satellite” link on the upper right, and then zoom out twice to get a reasonable view).

This is pretty darn neat (thanks to Jason Kottke for the pointer)

From a review of an Indian restaurant in the Ann Arbor Observer, which does not put their content online:

“The waitstaff looked after me solicitously: “Do you like the food?” “Do you need more water?” “Are you married?”

See previous post here.

Because I’m going to SRCD in Atlanta, I’ll miss what looks to be a very interesting talk in the Math department here, by Ila Fiete of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. The title is “How neurons compute integrals to control the eyes.”

The bane of my life, ok, one of the banes of my life is the difficulty to maintaining a coherent backup system.

I finally watched an Illini basketball game yesterday, in what will be their penultimate game of the year. One aspect of their success this year that’s been nice to see in this punitive world is that one of the stars of the show (and the difference in yesterday’s game) was someone that the Champaign-Urbana community was close to running out of town just a year ago.

March was the month when I got back into the effort of trying to traverse on foot the streets of my new hometown. I managed to cover about 25 miles (note this not my total walking/running, just what I did when I had time to cover new routes).

A Modern Indian Woman’s Struggle with Arranged-Marriage
At a recent dinner party, when I was trying to explain how single-minded Indian parents can be, my friend Jaidev jumped to the rescue. “Imagine you are on a safari in Africa with your parents,” he said. “A lion strolls by, and then perhaps a tiger. Your mother turns [...]

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April Power Hacks!

How about a roundup of some hot new 43 Folders “hacks” for starting your new month off right?

1. Pencils are a great way to write things down.
2. Sharpen new pencils soon after you’ve bought them, so you can use them to write things down more easily.
3. Make sure you put gas in [...]