About your not-so-humble author
Professional computer geek and linguist living in Germany, doing infosec stuff and being the freakiest mother ever.
Subscribe to my blather
Tag Archives: research
What is this “real life” of which you speak?
One of the things about having a baby is that all of this literature for new parents begins to arrive at your house, and you have no idea which of it you solicited and which of it you didn’t. Furthermore, … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged baby, being a grownup, education, education junkie, good things, language, Life, NaNoWriMo, novels, parenthood, research, sleep-impaired drivel, teaching, Torsten, travel
3 Comments
This is not the post you’re looking for. (Sorry, George Lucas…)
Life, as you know, rarely works out as planned. The day of my last post, a lot of big stuff was in the works for me. Most of it still is, but on the day of my last post, at … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Denver, Life, Los Angeles, Purdue, research, teaching
Leave a comment
Writing, writing, writing…
So research has been a slog the last few weeks. Motivation has been low, and my attempts to massage the data I extracted from a set of case studies into something approaching reasonable analysis is only now starting to come … Continue reading
“Pretty well discredited”, my ass.
John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, according to BBC News, estimates that 655,000 Iraqis have been killed since the invasion. That’s more than half-a-million Iraqis that would still be alive – men, women and children – if this president … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Administration, Bush, Middle East, Politics, research, scary stuff
Leave a comment
Zzzzz…
Enough politics for now – I can only take so much before I want to tear my hair out, and that does no one any good. Anyhow… I’ve been back in Denver since last Thursday. My trip home from Indiana … Continue reading
Whew!
Just got back from meeting my advisor, and had a great talk with her. It was so worth the trip out here. When you’re working remotely, sometimes it’s really hard to be sure how you’re progressing; after a nice long … Continue reading
Cracking away in the Land of Corn…
Being back at Purdue is always pretty surreal. Every time I come here, I subconsciously seem to utter “returning to the scene of the crime, eh?” – lots of the best things in my life have happened here (including The … Continue reading
I want to work, but my head won’t let me…
Stupid sinus headaches. Just when I am smack dab in the middle of a cool part of the analysis – and when I want to get something off to my advisor before next week’s trip back to Purdue – dry … Continue reading
I’m afraid I’m gonna have to beat Wil Wheaton…
Sorry, Wil. I’m gonna have to beat your ass. No, it’s not because you’re a confessed, proud geek (I’m a fan of geeks). It’s not even some sort of need to kick Wesley Crusher in effigy (I’ve no beef with … Continue reading
Synthesis
So Wednesdays (or early Thursdays, depending on how the week has gone, I guess) are when I send off my weekly progress reports to my advisor. I’ve been doing a lot of background reading the past couple of weeks, and … Continue reading
