silent_rock's Journal: Really Disturbing

Know what's Really Disturbing? When I get spam from a first name that I strongly associate to a certain person. So when I get a message about "Adult Porn Site!" from the name of [a girl who makes me jealous], I think, that skank! Or "Are your sexual fantasies fulfilled?" from name of [guy who designs the instrumentation for our experiments] - Ew! I am highly disturbed. I should probably put a spam filter on my dept account.

I had a dream about InSAR last night. I was explaining the acronym (Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar) and method to a new student. Messed up. Rols said "As long as dreaming about InSAR is not a nightmare, it's probably OK."

I get to hear bits and pieces of the new Weezer album on Launchcast and I like.

KW said that he had trouble trying to just read through all of the Nobel Laureates in Literature chronologically, so I have chosen just four to sample: 2001 Naipaul (heard he was good), 2000 Gao Xingjian (just curious), 1968 Kawabata (beat out Mishima, much to Mishima's dismay), 1953 Winston Churchill (Ce Ce used to have a poster of him in our dorm room junior year - Hot). That should take me a few years to accomplish...

It is raining. In June. In Berkeley. That is messed up.

Literature by Committee

[js7a]

What do the Nobel Literates write about?

Are you excited about the earthquakes?

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[silent_rock]

This is the extent of what I know about them:
http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/

v. excited by earthquakes!

Re:Literature by Committee

[js7a]

It used to be a bad thing to put the word "cepstral" on a resume, because the original Brown proceedings were on geometric detection of nuclear explosions, not speech recognition. So, at one point some government agency, probably in the mid-70s through mid-80s, tried to suppress the use of the term. That was odd.

Of course I am excited, too, but I feel very safe.

So, the important solution involved reconstruction of phases, which is something that I have posted on USENET a lot, but only in one dimensio

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[GP(MPK)]

mommy, make the bad man stop!

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[js7a]

I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.

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[js7a]

On second thought, "cepstral," was fine (although there was a time when it wouldn't have been.) The word "Alanyst" is what got me in trouble.