Late yesterday afternoon was an anti-climactic end to a weeklong binge of paper-writing, as my advisor and I sat down to examine our ICALT paper and realized that–because of lack of performance data on the ASR system that my work receives as input, and because of lack of overall pedagogical effectiveness of our project–the paper […]
Monthly Archives: February 2005
The Burnt Out Ends of Smoky Weeks
25-Feb-05Instantes
22-Feb-05Instantes Si pudiera vivir nuevamente mi vida en la pr�xima tratar�a de cometer m�s errores. No intentar�a ser tan perfecto… me relajar�a m�s. Ser�a m�s tonto de lo que he sido; de hecho tomar�a muy pocas cosas con seriedad. Ser�a menos higi�nico. Correr�a m�s riesgos, har�a m�s viajes, contemplar�a m�s atardeceres, subir�a m�s monta�as, nadar�a […]
Telepolis has an interview with Slavoj Zizek entitled “Hysteria and Cyberspace”. Deep, deep, good stuff. Do you know the function ‘undelete’ in computers? The problem with computers is not that something can be erased: you worked all afternoon and then have a power failure and it’s gone. Okay, these things can happen. But you know […]
Every class at my university starts the semester off with a good 15 minute long lecture by the professors telling us that we should do our own work, not copy from others’ when such an action is not fitting, and always list our sources if we do use someone else’s work. Now, we’ve had two […]
iSuccumb?
03-Feb-05So, I’m pretty sure I’ll be buying an iBook sometime in the near future (within the next couple of days?). I’ve been considering it for a while now, need a laptop, and the price is definitely right, especially for Apple quality. I’m pretty sure I’m going to get a 12″–$900 is a good price, the […]
Artwork Remixing
03-Feb-05Johannes at MonoChrom has an amazing project going on right now. He’s taken four old black-and-white drawings of chainsaw and wood, and invited netizens to use them as inspiration/illustration for graphical novel shorts. His replies have been amazing, especially in their spread of subject matter. Ranging from introspective to psychotic to (probably my favorite, by […]