After I finished making Kim some tuna salad today, it was so pretty I just had to take a picture and blog about it.
The tuna salad itself is just a can of tuna, two tablespoons of mayo, and a few ounces of finely chopped onion, and dill. The plate is garnished with wedges of tomato, thin slices of cucumber, and pepperoncini peppers.
CaSTA 2005: The Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis will be at the University of Alberta (in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) this year. The conference will last for five days with one day each dedicated to technology and tools for linguistics, anthropology, digital editing, information science, and slavic studies.
The price is dirt cheap. $50 for the conference and $70 per workshop/day. If you want to attend for just a single day, they only charge for a day but let you go to the other conference events on that day as well.
I am hoping to clear my calendar to go to either the linguistics workshop on XML corpus construction or the information science workshop. See the program for details.
Tim Bray, co-inventor XML will be there and give a talk about the future of the Internet.
Recently I have read a much-cited paper by NYU professor Thomas Nagel titled What is it Like to Be a Bat? I was reading it on the advise of the professor supervising my undergraduate independent research project on connectionism and embodiment. The paper is interesting but also interesting is what I found when I searched the web for the title.
There exists a band called What is It Like to be a Bat? that does some really wild techno-punk music. The band leader is also a professor. The website has a lot of very confusing descriptions of what the band is and has done (high-art pop??). Still it really is an interesting concept.
What can I say: In my private Idaho there are professors forming strange bands named after the strange papers of other professors.