An early happy new year to everyone, as I will be out later. I’m quite happy to be able to celebrate it in New Orleans. I’ll be at Igor’s on St.Charles with my wife, so come see us if you’re around! As usual, I’ll be the guy in a black shirt and khakis and [...]

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To whom it may concern:
I will be “on vacation” from 2006-12-21 through 2007-01-07. I plan on doing some work during various parts of that period. I should have access to my email, phone, etc most but possibly not all of that time. Please leave a message in whatever format is convenient (phone, blog [...]

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Skepticlawyer over at Catallaxy (where I sometimes blog) has a nice little summary of the pagan origins of Christmas, before it was co-opted as the pretend birthday of Jesus. Here’s just a snippet:

Romans decorated their doorposts with holly and kissed under the mistletoe. Shops and businesses closed and people greeted one another in the [...]

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To be fair, many of us do most of our computing in a browser window these days.

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Progress has continued smoothly on my class project. I’ve done one of the key validation steps in the project, and am just about ready to move on to the meat of the study.
What I did was to current-clamp the two different models, and compare this with the results of the exact same experiment in the [...]

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