March 28 is upcoming, (just four weeks away) the date previously set for a GBK mini-retreat in the Lawrence area. I'll be in town (for meetings on Monday the 30th and probably Sunday night). Who's in? For what? Who's coordinating? (not it).
I'll be happy just seeing my dear friends at their houses, but if we wanted to actually retreat somewhere, we need a plan (and frankly, if we're just meeting at someone's house, a plan would be order).
Molly and Jenny both commented on the "10 Things About You" after it left the top page, so I'm not sure if everyone has had the chance to read their responses, but it is well worth doing. Let's continue the discussion with responses on this post.
Mardi Gras is Tuesday, so I thought that the theme for this week might be one extravagent/excessive thing you'd like to do and one thing you'd like to give up in your life.
Upcoming early in March will be Molly's birthday, followed by Cathy's defense and then Debbie's birthday on the Ides. Wishing you metaphorically broken legs and great days!
Does anyone know where I can order inexpensive (~$10) books that are written in French? I'm looking for specific websites. I wanted to buy some reference books and novels to take to Haiti, but am having difficulty. I found some on Amazon, but SpSq's favorite book The Eight (Le Huit) is $40! And I found a site that imports novels from France, and they are expensive. I'll try the used books sites again, but seems like they are all >$20. PS - I'm reading The Fire and it is great! And I'm home sick so it's a good day to look up things on-line. HA - followup - there's a bookstore in Haiti's capital!
Sign of the nerdiness of my colleagues: he was describing a student with passionate, constantly changing opinions of him, "her attitude could be graphed like a sine wave."
Sign of the nerdiness of me: I took (okay, gave blood for) a prenatal sceening test this morning. The doctor reminded me that it was good for ruling stuff out (if negative, 95% chance baby is fine), but not good for confirming anything (if positive, 97% of time nothing is wrong). I had to try and make this into a statistical test for my senior seminar class, if Type I error rate is 5% (5% of negatives are false negatives) and Type II error rates are 97% (97% of positives are false positives), can we determine anything about probability of underlying conditions? I don't think so unless we know the actual positive/negative reporting rates. Anyone geekier than I.
Alloicious Nukular (aka E. Mervivan Phogg) heart is beating just fine, by the way.
This is a song on evolution written by a Columbia College alum. I've met the band and they're nice. http://www.overman.info/evolutionrocks.html
Here's another site with lots of info on the year of science http://www.yearofscience2009.org/home/
Darwin (lots of his works are online here) http://darwin-online.org.uk/
