Both Microsoft and Canonical recently released major updates to their operating system. Microsoft has officially released Windows 7 and canonical shipped Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala. I’ve got both operating systems installed and running. Ubuntu on my laptop and Win7 on my desktop. I’m going to use both of them for a few days and post [...]
All posts for the month October, 2009
Google search for Quasi Control
So I’m not the #1 google search for quasi-control. I’m number 2. I’m not sure why, I mean the first line from the #1 google hit for quasi control says “Quasi-control is a specific grammatical coreference relation that can be found with multi-word predicates the dependent part of which is a noun with valency requirements”. [...]
Posted by slayton on October 27, 2009
http://quasicontrol.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/google-search-for-quasi-control/
Adventures in Chinatown
When I was at SfN I went with a friend to Chicago’s china town. The restaurant we picked was full of Chinese people and only one of the people who worked there spoke English, and she spoke it poorly.
Posted by slayton on October 27, 2009
http://quasicontrol.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/adventures-in-chinatown/
President Obama’s visit to MIT.
I haven’t posted in several weeks so here is a quick snippet to prove to you I’m still alive and capable of running a blog. Expect more posts soon! President Obama came to MIT today. He toured some “clean energy labs” and addressed the MIT community. He started his address by thanking people and then [...]
Posted by slayton on October 23, 2009
http://quasicontrol.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/president-obamas-visit-to-mit/
More leprosy please!
These billboards are popping up all over Cambridge and sparking a bit of controversy. I’m not very familiar with the biology of leprosy but for some reason I want to say that simple hygiene is sufficient to prevent the disease and that modern medicines are not required to treat it (I could totally be wrong [...]
Posted by slayton on October 23, 2009
http://quasicontrol.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/more-leprosy-please/
