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I just happen to turn around and catch Waldi coming to greet me warmly.

APS Observer - Playing Guitar Hero to Understand Statistics

This is the article as it is published in the APS Observer. Check it out!

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APS 2009

Well everyone, the APS conference went well. I met almost all of my prospective graduate programs, professors and directors. Needless to say, my list has dwindled quite remarkably. I am working on two manuscripts at the moment so I am keeping this post brief. I will be posting the two posters I presented at the conference at a later date. Until then, enjoy this picture of bFlat, Philip Zimbardo, and I at SFMOMA.

Aliens Fans

For those of you who are Alien, Aliens, Alien 3 & Alien Resurrection fans this is a case study on the character Newt. I did this a few years ago in my child and adolescent psychopathology course and I just found it. Enjoy!

Because I only know a little german

As I was riding home with bFlat from the park, we had a silly conversation I thought I would share with all of you.

We just passed Bed Bath & Beyond and I asked, "Do you suppose they have the same rule in German? You know, like how we would say 'bed bath & beyond.' Do you suppose they would say library, meatshop, and bank?" Why 'library, meatshop and bank?' Simple, those are three places I can say in German.

Guitar Hero as a Scientific tool

Over a year has past since the Guitar Hero experiment and I finally gotten around to writing an official document that will be published at APS the Observer. Feel free to check out a copy of the article that will be printed in the July issue below.

Nerds, Scientists, and anyone doing research

To those of you who do tons of web searches, trolls through the archives at the University Library, or is just really into research--like yours truly--you can understand how quickly you loose track of what you read, when and where. I have finally found something that will manage all of my citations and not piss me off like the Microsoft office tools (endpoint).

Sage Publishers had a link on their page suggesting http://www.citeulike.org/. Needless to say, what makes this website quite possibly the best thing since sliced cheese is the search function. It lets you tag and note your citations plus find more articles that share similar tags and authors! It is been a real help the past few days while I build a lit-review of about 20 peer-reviewed journal articles.

Try it, and let me know what you think!

dockscape #5

dockscape #5
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I really like this picture I found while playing around on flickr. I haven't got much time for posting lately. So, I thought I'd write a quick blurb about this pic.

In any case, I'm working on a new website for my photography. I expect to have a final revision done in the next couple weeks so look forward to a post about that.

Ode to Coffee 2

I lied, this is hardly an ode to coffee. Although, I am, however, writing about coffee again. In my quest to find fair-trade goods and be a responsible citizen of the world, the easiest thing I can do is buy fair trade coffee. That being said, the stores around here are terrible about carrying fair-trade coffee of any kind. Secondly, the fair trade that is available is still a whole bean item. In other words, I have to use the in store coffee grinder, and believe it or not, Bflat is terrified of them. Albeit strange, but it does have a foundation in logic.
People are gross--she has quite a bit of authority on that particular matter--and these same gross people fiddle around with a machine that does not look like it has been cleaned in the past 15 years. Therefore yielding a machine that is gross.

My father was a big coffee drinker, so grinding the beans down is no real mystery to me, nor is it terribly uncommon. He actually used something identical to this one.

So this brings me up to my critical question. Does anyone use the in-store coffee grinder, does anyone else share the phobia, any recommendations for a good home coffee grinder, or am I missing something critically important about the fair trade coffee (i.e., there is ground coffee avaliable.)

Doggy Days

This is a day with Waldi.



Here is a little more of Waldi being active.