Switzerland – A neutral power for as long as most can remember, it has avoided war for several centuries. However, it is still considered highly advanced and a global power. Positives: Judicial. Neutrality. World-Renouned. Powerful without Force. Makes Excellent Watches, Etc. Negatives: Target of Ridicule. Constant Struggle to Avoid Conflict. Target of Criminal Bank Accounts.… Continue reading Which Country of the World are You?
Category: Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
If you are wondering why the posting recently has been sparse. Wonder no more. Spring semester winds up May 2. My teaching assistantship is more demanding work during the last month of the semester as the project is assigned and then graded in multiple steps. We usually break up the project into multiple steps so… Continue reading Miscellaneous
Endorsement
Andrew Northrup for President in 2004.
SARS
The major signal processing annual conference has been cancelled due to SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome). The 2003 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) scheduled for 6-10 April in Hong Kong has been cancelled due to the recent outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). The annual conference is sponsored by… Continue reading SARS
Light Blogging
I haven’t been blogging much recently. Real life has interfered. I am working on my research, preparing a presentation and will be doing some grading this week as well. I’ll try to post as often as my schedule allows. I still have to finish the marriage series (starts here) with the last post on arranged… Continue reading Light Blogging
What language are you supposed to speak?
Dummkopf! Vei shpiek ju not GERMAN? Ju mast komplei and tschensch jur kurrent Lenkwetsch reit nau! What language are you supposed to speak? brought to you by Quizilla
United States: What’s to like and not like?
At the end of her moving post on torture that I referred to earlier, Emma of Late Night Thoughts says: If Americans are to be believed, America is a nation with a special dispensation from God. The shining city upon a hill, an example to all of what is best in mankind. We cannot make… Continue reading United States: What’s to like and not like?
The Dog Can Bite
The Talking Dog described each blog (more than 200) on his blogroll in glowing terms. But now he shows that the dog can bite as well as it can talk. U.S.S. Clueless is the eponymous blog of Steven den Beste of California; the eponymous part, BTW, is the “clueless”, rather than the “beste”, which this… Continue reading The Dog Can Bite
Laptop Recommendations
I am thinking of buying a laptop PC. My requirements include maximum compute power, lots of RAM (at least 512MB), at least a 40GB hard disk, a CD-RW/DVD combo drive, 100-Base-T ethernet and wireless networking, 1 or more PCMCIA slots and a resonable display. I definitely want a Wintel machine. It should be reasonably portable… Continue reading Laptop Recommendations
Which Political Stereotype Are You?
Democrat – You believe that there should be a free market which is reigned in by a modest state beaurocracy. You think that capitalism has some good things, but that those it helps should be obliged to help out their fellow man a little. Your historical role model is Franklin Roosevelt. Which political sterotype are… Continue reading Which Political Stereotype Are You?