I´m currently backpacking around Peru and posting from a computer in a restaurant in Nasca, home to the world-famous Nasca Lines (¿never heard of them? shame on you!). Most unfortunately my camera is spoilt and i have no photos. =( The shutter won´tn close so all my photos come out super horribly overexposed. Managed to get lots of nice photos of kids and random photos from the road before that though. But the pain! A holiday with so few photos! Thank Goodness for Adela´s cam that we´re now toting around for photos, although memory conservation has become an issue.
Mail will be checked every few days, and hopefully next time i´ll pop by with a SD card reader and upload some photos that i already have.
Merry Christmas to all!
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Wednesday, December 07, 2005
Social Psych Cont'd
In a tongue-in-cheek experiment i just thought up, i'm going to try and write a program to analyse chunks of text and calculate the ratio of words like "I" and "me" to sentences, as well as the ratio of words like "us" and "we".
Thus written, I can see if 1 year of immersion in individualistic american culture has done anything to influence my (online) psyche. Wonder if there'll be a statistically significant effect or if there's too much noise in the different sort of sentences in diff styled posts i have....
Thus written, I can see if 1 year of immersion in individualistic american culture has done anything to influence my (online) psyche. Wonder if there'll be a statistically significant effect or if there's too much noise in the different sort of sentences in diff styled posts i have....
Saturday, December 03, 2005
Social Psych
When someone "loves you for a long, long time," explained the wise, old Skin Horse to the Velveteen Rabbit,
"not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."
"Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit.
"Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."
"Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?"
"It dosn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't often happen to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."
"not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."
"Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit.
"Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."
"Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?"
"It dosn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't often happen to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."
Friday, December 02, 2005
Where am I?
It's snowing again, and this time the temp is low enough to maintain the snow covered everything.
So. Pictures from parts of campus you rarely see:
A cup of milo for the first person to guess where it is!
And in other news, ze russian squirrel mob erases a stray dog. But this time there were human witnesses. They must be getting sloppy.
Read the story on BBC news (thanks aya)
So. Pictures from parts of campus you rarely see:
A cup of milo for the first person to guess where it is!
And in other news, ze russian squirrel mob erases a stray dog. But this time there were human witnesses. They must be getting sloppy.
Read the story on BBC news (thanks aya)
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