This and that
May. 1st, 2005 18:47![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
torquillI'm taking a break from writing my paper. I have the Intro, Methods, and Results sections done... now I just need to do the Discussion (the meat of the paper), the one-paragraph Conclusion, then make all the graphs and reference them in the text. Oh, and do the citations. So I'm making progress. I'm hoping to do the whole discussion tonight, leaving all the fiddly bits for tomorrow, and be able to hand the damn thing in by midweek.
I did get to see Hitchhiker's last night... apparently I liked it better than either my brother Alex or Nick. My brother pretty well panned it, actually, and while I can't argue with his reasoning, I think it was overall a good movie, and certainly better and more faithful than I had feared. I do agree with Nick, though, that Arthur didn't get kicked around enough.
So... Beltaine means it's the first day of summer. It's still not exactly warm out there, but the hills are starting to turn tan. Where they're not purple, that is. I have never in my life seen the vetch go so nuts as to carpet huge swaths of the hills in royal purple; the effect is clearly visible from a couple of miles away. So we have patchy purple and green and brown hills now.
Alex got a DVD burner, and asked whether there was anything I wanted converted from VHS to DVD. I immediately mentioned Blazing Starships, and said I would try to find the tape... I got a better copy not terribly long ago, but if there's any fan-made project that needs to be digitized to preserve it, it is that incredible fan-MSTie of Star Trek V. Unforgettable. White Dwarf is the other thing which comes to mind, but I think I know exactly where that tape is.
I need to gather some people together to watch Running Time, after my life calms down a little. Nick, Celeste and I saw it on 35mm in Berkeley a year or two back, but no one else I know has seen it, even the people who are huge Bruce Campbell fans. Now that I have the DVD, I can spread the campy black-and-white joy. :)
I'm ready for Cyndi to take the Immune mailing list back. Ohhhh boy am I ready. I got totally overwhelmed yesterday with trying to keep a potential flame-war down, and I finally cried to Cyndi for help in deciding what to put through... she said to just cut it off where it was, since that was what she would do at that point. So I did. And sure enough, one of the three hard-liners who was perpetrating the little ideological dogfight has sent me mail, saying "what do you mean you didn't put my post through? He was spreading lies that I had to confront!" Sorry, dear, if I put yours through I'd have to put his rebuttal through, and your counter-argument... no. Just no. I'm waiting for at least one of the others to send me another scathing rebuke for dropping the thread. Sigh.
My temporary moderating stint was supposed to be about two weeks. It has now been almost eleven. I am soooo ready to be done with the babysitting.
Aaaanyway. Time to explain why I got the results I did, and what they mean. I take some comfort in one thing: the fact that my teachers didn't bother to give us much guidance on how a scientific paper is written (I found a good guide online) will come back to punish them when they are forced to read twenty-something papers of five to twenty pages in length, written by students who have no idea what they're doing. This makes me more cheerful.
I did get to see Hitchhiker's last night... apparently I liked it better than either my brother Alex or Nick. My brother pretty well panned it, actually, and while I can't argue with his reasoning, I think it was overall a good movie, and certainly better and more faithful than I had feared. I do agree with Nick, though, that Arthur didn't get kicked around enough.
So... Beltaine means it's the first day of summer. It's still not exactly warm out there, but the hills are starting to turn tan. Where they're not purple, that is. I have never in my life seen the vetch go so nuts as to carpet huge swaths of the hills in royal purple; the effect is clearly visible from a couple of miles away. So we have patchy purple and green and brown hills now.
Alex got a DVD burner, and asked whether there was anything I wanted converted from VHS to DVD. I immediately mentioned Blazing Starships, and said I would try to find the tape... I got a better copy not terribly long ago, but if there's any fan-made project that needs to be digitized to preserve it, it is that incredible fan-MSTie of Star Trek V. Unforgettable. White Dwarf is the other thing which comes to mind, but I think I know exactly where that tape is.
I need to gather some people together to watch Running Time, after my life calms down a little. Nick, Celeste and I saw it on 35mm in Berkeley a year or two back, but no one else I know has seen it, even the people who are huge Bruce Campbell fans. Now that I have the DVD, I can spread the campy black-and-white joy. :)
I'm ready for Cyndi to take the Immune mailing list back. Ohhhh boy am I ready. I got totally overwhelmed yesterday with trying to keep a potential flame-war down, and I finally cried to Cyndi for help in deciding what to put through... she said to just cut it off where it was, since that was what she would do at that point. So I did. And sure enough, one of the three hard-liners who was perpetrating the little ideological dogfight has sent me mail, saying "what do you mean you didn't put my post through? He was spreading lies that I had to confront!" Sorry, dear, if I put yours through I'd have to put his rebuttal through, and your counter-argument... no. Just no. I'm waiting for at least one of the others to send me another scathing rebuke for dropping the thread. Sigh.
My temporary moderating stint was supposed to be about two weeks. It has now been almost eleven. I am soooo ready to be done with the babysitting.
Aaaanyway. Time to explain why I got the results I did, and what they mean. I take some comfort in one thing: the fact that my teachers didn't bother to give us much guidance on how a scientific paper is written (I found a good guide online) will come back to punish them when they are forced to read twenty-something papers of five to twenty pages in length, written by students who have no idea what they're doing. This makes me more cheerful.
