I found my Ipod in my work laptop bag.

I haven't been using my Ipod lately because I was feeling a bit of hearing loss in my left ear - I think it was compacting earwax or something. I think I left it at work at my desk. It was an old one so had very little value. I can't seem to find it. I glanced around at home and I didn't see it, but I didn't look in depth. Hmph.

downside: matlab. student license is $99. what i might do is use octave for prototyping and then drop by the school's computer lab to test the code, but that adds a lot of overhead. might just try to sneak by with octave. the class moves fast, after all, because it's a summer class. anyway, leafing through the syllabus, looks like he's going to drive us hard. sweet. so i'll be busy.

REMINDER: ChiHuSiMeet on July 14th. Presume Chez GZT in the afternoon. Others can organize other events at other times.

That phrase always amused me. However, as it's the Paschal season, it's out of place to bring it up.

Reminder in case you missed it: we're thinking July 14 for ChiHuSiMeet unless there are severe objections from anybody whose opinion matters.

King in the North, then!

CHIHUSIMEET: July 14th, I think, then! Mark your calendars. If there are no major objections in the next week, it will be so ordained.

Anyway, in the experimental design course, we had a project and I made a big cockup of it because I worked with, essentially, some found data that's observational data rather that experimental data. That kind of misses the point, doesn't it? Well, whatevs. I did okay in the rest of the class and I do know how to do the experimental design stuff, so even "bombing" the project should let me do okay. And I just noticed that I left off a couple quick analyses that should be in there, but I'm at work now and don't have SAS.

I had a slight "D'oh!" moment yesterday when I was glancing the website for a conference on topological data analysis and noticed there were two people from OSU who attended. I hadn't noticed them earlier because they had courtesy appointments in stats, so I didn't really look at their work. Well, I still prefer my choice and I don't think that's the direction I will go, but that's the sort of thing that would have moved them a notch higher than they were in terms of "research fit". Still, I don't like making decisions and then finding something right afterwards that I deem relevant.

INSIDE: more Windy City Husi Meetup discussion.

Or maybe June. July.

We should have a HuSi gathering here in the Second City some time before August (when I depart the city).

Airing the motion here to see if anybody is up for it and has strong opinions about dates, times, locations, that sort of thing.

however: NOT ANY TIME NEAR MAY 20-21. the NATO summit will muck things up.

Well, that's nice.

The sister-in-law is deep into alternative medicine and just loves Mercola, a lying liar who tells lies. She posted some link to an alternative medicine thing about cancer and said, "Touchy subject, but amen. I want everyone to know there are alternatives, as crazy as it sounds." I had to try very very hard not to directly troll her, content, instead, with posting an article about geocentrism on my own wall and saying there are alternatives to heliocentrism.