December 2010
6 posts
Two ton workout →
For those not living in Maine, it might be a surprise to realize how much home heating oil gets burned in a season. We moved into a house with no real insulation, and have replaced windows, insulated…
Dec 5th
Whacking things →
Bowling!!!!! Another Maine element of life is the existence of candle-pin bowling. It’s way harder and more interesting than regular bowling (ten-pin…). Basically, the balls are tiny, the pins…
Dec 5th
Scaling the walls →
Click on the link to see what I mean. It’s not about climbing. From Minimalissimo, “Sol LeWitt at Gladstone Gallery” Here’s the thing about me and conceptual art. While I look at this, I’m listening to David First drones, drone music that goes beyond William Basinski tape loops the way Basinski went beyond Reich’s phase music. Long term structures. Scaling...
Dec 4th
WTF? →
Some paper abstracts are just too jargony. And this one is funny, “with a vengeance,” my ass. From “Embodied Task Dynamics,” Psychological Review, Volume 117, Issue 4, October 2010, Pages 1229-1246
Dec 4th
Awesome paper title →
“Number versus continuous quantity in numerosity judgments by fish.” In press in Cognition.
Dec 1st
Dec 1st