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August 20th, 2008
neuroscience
[malabar]
 | 06:40 pm - More papers to go!
Hey there folks - more hard-copy papers being cleared out. I'd rather they go to good homes than get recycled. Papers are from 1978 - 2000; some are hard to find if your library doesn't keep old journals.
Same deal as before: just pay postage and they're yours (sent from UK). Comment below to reserve.
Note: First author only listed; titles have been truncated; citations are in the form [volume page numbers].
Tryptophan hydroxylase and sound stress
( Boadle-Biber papers )
( Other topics (mainly serotonin-based, some dopamine) )
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/ibrad/bigsmile.gif) hopeful
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griffjon
 | 12:46 pm - I still exist!
I realize that while I comment often here, I don't post much. So here's a wrap-up post on my life.
First, I Twitter and blog more frequently under my real name, with RSS feeds and such if you want to follow me that way, but the blog is all geek-development stuff, and twitter is, well, twitter. (I'm trying to disassociate "griffjon" from my real life persona at least to deflect basic googling)
Second; Work continues. Less horrible than a few months ago, but still I have too many tasks, too many interrupts, too little funding, and not enough pay or belief to work unpaid overtime to get it all done in a timely fashion. I'm still pursuing leads for a good and engaging ICT4D / social media 4 dev or citizen journalism via SMS/civic engagement type position with some field time, but based in DC. I've spent the last 5 months in a long distance relationship (after swearing I'd never do one of those again!) and I'm done with LDRs (again) (this one ends (happily) next month, see below). I've mostly made peace with DC. There's a hidden but interesting group of folks here. It's a stuffy, stodgy town (especially considering its voting record), but for the time being at least, it's my home.
Speaking of, I'm moving in with A (big step) in a real, honest-to-god rental rowhouse in a month. It's in the Capitol Hill area, essentially across the street from Eastern Market, which houses a great selection of regional produce and meat, and has a decent farmer's market combined with a craft/flea market on the weekends. We have a guest bedroom, so the open invite to friends stands. It has less crazy outdoor space than the Nut House, but it's also well maintained, and not shared with 6 others, not counting raccoons. I'll still be able to garden a bit.
Gardening is going well. The peppers are coming in, and the "random packet of peppers" has turned out to produce 1 anaheim, 1 poblano, 4 jalapenos and 5 banana pepper plants. I'd prefer more of the first few and no banana peppers, but them's the breaks. I planted 2 habanero pepper plants separately. The sunchokes are taller than I am, and it's looking like I'll have to come back to visit the house in the fall to actually harvest them. The tomatoes are peaking currently, which is great. I've been eating at least 2 huge tomatoes every day :)
The summer homebrews turned out decent; a solid lager and an experimental whitbier with lemon zest. Ironically, now that the two perfect-for-hot-august-days beers are ready, August is ending up with a series of downright pleasant days.
I'm reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. If you haven't read that book, I highly recommend it. I considered myself decently informed on the importance of local sustainable food, but I still learn one amazing thing per chapter, and it's just a heartwarming story that makes me want to go farm.
Current Location: Work
Current Music: co-worker clapping out of rhythm to her blaring green day.
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wanderinggrrl
 | 10:00 am - ganked from ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) athanata's journal
i had to repost this from a friend's journal:
A McCain aide posted the following on johnmccain.com
"It may be typical of the pro-Obama Dungeons & Dragons crowd to disparage a fellow countryman's memory of war from the comfort of mom's basement, but most Americans have the humility and gratitude to respect and learn from the memories of men who suffered on behalf of others"
D+D players were upset, so the aide wrote the following apology:
"If my comments caused any harm or hurt to the hard working Americans who play Dungeons & Dragons, I apologize. This campaign is committed to increasing the strength, constitution, dexterity, intelligence, wisdom, and charisma scores of every American."
condescending, much? :)
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/neko/kaokitty/suprised.gif) surprised
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san_diego
[retention]
 | 09:22 am - Question related to wedding dresses / browsing online.
I've fallen in love with a dress online, and it lists six retailers that I would need to contact - which is fine, I would never purchase it without seeing/trying it on first.
The problem now lies with calls I've placed to those retailers - none of them carry this dress. Or anything by EdenBridals.com, which is where I found the dress I love. I'm even willing to make the drive up to Fallbrook/Escondido/LA, since it looks like they might possibly have something. The Fallbrook location hasn't returned my call yet.
Short of emailing EB (already done, waiting on a response), do you guys think there are any solutions to finding their dresses in a store? Obviously they don't check to see if the retailers they list carry their stuff, which is really frustrating, so I don't know what to do.
Anyone run into this problem? We haven't set a date yet but both agreed that if I fell in love with a dress I should get it.
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san_diego
[jadedwishes]
 | 11:58 am - free wifi hotspots
Morning all,
Does anyone know of any free wifi hotspots in the city college area?
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ozarque
 | 08:04 am - Personal note; thank you...
My thanks to all of you who posted comments about "Get Thee To," and for all your kind words. That was a very hard -- very stubborn -- poem to write; I've been working on it, off and on, for more than three years, and had begun to think I was never going to be able to get it finished.
My metaphor for writing poetry is carving away everything that isn't the poem, in order to turn the poem loose. With "Get Thee To" it seemed to me that the more I carved, the more determined the poem was to burrow into the chunk of language I was holding and hide from me. It fought back.
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four
 | 01:51 pm - antenna
I help Matthias build the antenna he designed last night
We're thinking about building an automatic air cracking device with custom directional antenna.
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inhumandecency
 | 04:43 am - Report from the bottom of the internet
I couldn't sleep, so I went looking around for lj conservative communities where I might be able to circulate the study I mentioned. It was scary. The support for politicians and policies that I think are disastrous was disturbing, of course, but much worse was the arrogance and hatred radiating from the posts. I asked myself, set aside your beliefs for a minute and be honest: are the liberal communities any better? So I went and read some equally random liberal communities. Tirades and canards still predominated, but after a while I realized: Liberal posts were attacking conservative politicians. Conservative posts were attacking liberals.
Both types of post would typically start with a one-sided description of some awful, obviously insane idea. The liberal posts would then go on to link it to the Bush administration's consistent record of elitism, kleptocracy, and dismantling civil rights. The conservative posts would then go on to link it to the way that Gore / Kerry / Obama supporters are cowards who can't stand up to Islamic and homosexual extremists and can't take care of themselves without government handouts. I know a lot of liberals have pretty dim views of people who vote Republican, but they typically aren't front and center in the same way.
To some extent this is probably just the old observation that liberals think conservative are stupid, and conservatives think liberals are evil. I suspect it also has to do with the greater intellectual complexity you usually see in liberal rhetoric: The idea that a person has one set of beliefs, which lead to a different and perhaps unintended set of consequences, involves more steps and more frustrating withholding of judgment than drawing a direct connection between "this person supports policies that will encourage terrorism" and "this person is pro-terrorist."
I'm not qualified to opine whether this is a bona fide psychological difference or a more incidental difference in rhetoric. I probably also need more experience wearing my conservative glasses if I'm going to fairly criticize liberals. But it just seems like crazy-ass liberal ranting tends to misrepresent conservative policies, whereas crazy-ass conservative ranting tends to misrepresent liberal policies, and also make me feel like I might get beaten to death in an alley.
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warren_ellis
 | 11:59 pm - Collecting Stray Thoughts - 2008-08-19
(Automatically crossposted from warrenellis.com. Feel free to comment here or at my internet church at Whitechapel. If anything in this post looks weird, it's because LJ is run on steampipes and rubber bands -- please click through to the main site.)
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inhumandecency
 | 12:34 am - Rock Band
I've finally caught up with the times! I bought an xbox 360 and have been playing rockband. My xbox Live handle is octern; look me up sometime if you want to jam.
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inhumandecency
| 12:34 am - lazy-real-world, please help me out
Hey, folks. Is anyone willing to help me advertise a study?
I'm working on a web-based study with my former student pejorativejinx. We've gotten a decent response advertising on craigslist, but the study concerns political attitudes and online community samples in general seem to skew hard to the left. It looks like we're going to need to try physical flyering -- but advertising in Ann Arbor and San Francisco doesn't seem so likely to remedy the problem. Is there anyone here who lives somewhere more conservative, and might be willing to stick up a few flyers in places you have easy access to? I can't offer compensation but you'll have a great deal of my gratitude.
If anyone has an in with groups of more religiously or politically conservative folks, let me know if you might be willing to mention the study them or maybe forward an email announcement. We make a $2 donation to charity for every response we receive.
Thanks! I mean, even thanks for just reading this.
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stellarbaby
 | 11:47 pm - bee-leach
messing about with watercolor and bleach:
bleach is some freaky stuff! my metal nib is all corroded and i got a sore throat. i should probably water it down instead of using it straight up.
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san_diego
[jeisenne]
 | 11:14 pm - 35mm film
In the midst of my cleaning frenzy I came across about 12 rolls of 35mm film that should have been developed YEARS ago. I can guarantee that some of them are about 10 years old.
Do I need to take them somewhere special to have them developed? Or will the photo processing center at Costco be good enough? I've never had to deal with old film before, so I don't even know if the images taken can be salvaged :(
Recommendations on local film developing places are highly appreciated. I haven't dealt with REAL film in forever so I don't really know where to go, especially with old film.
Thank you!
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apod
| 04:25 am - NGC 6960: The Witch s Broom Nebula
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080819.html  NGC 6960: The Witch s Broom Nebula
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August 19th, 2008
san_diego
[tattedandslain]
 | 06:11 pm - Frames
Can someone recommend a place to buy inexpensive picture frames - OTHER THAN IKEA.
I need 8x10s and poster sizes...
Bonus points if its in the Serra Mesa/mission valley/kearny mesa/clairemont/linda vista area.
kthxbye
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nfnitperplexity
 | 03:07 pm
This reminds me of The Onion's McCain profile:
"Thoughts On Torture: Doesn't support stuff he couldn't handle."
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savagelove
| 12:00 am - I Want My Boyfriend to Spank Me, But Can I Still Be an Equal?
http://feeds.villagevoice.com/~r/articles/savage_love/~3/369385928/i-want-my-boyfriend-to-spank-me-but-can-i-still-be-an-equal http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-08-19/columns/i-want-my-boyfriend-to-spank-me-but-can-i-still-be-an-equal Dear Dan: I have a problem that has nothing to do with sex. I have a parenting problem, and given that you are a fellow parent, I'm hoping you have some insight. My brother is a social conservative; I'm a politically engaged liberal. I can't change him, but I'm disturbed because his son, whom we'...
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four
| 10:37 pm - opis
opisThe importance of distributed systems is growing as computing devices become ubiquitous and bandwidth becomes plentiful. Concurrency and distribution pose algorithmic and implementation challenges in developing reliable distributed systems, making the field an excellent testbed for evaluating programming language and verification paradigms. Recently, several specialized domain-specific languages and extensions of memory-unsafe languages have been proposed to aid distributed system development. In this paper we propose an alternative to these approaches, arguing that modern, higher-order, strongly typed, memory safe languages provide an excellent vehicle for developing and debugging distributed systems.
We present Opis, a functional-reactive approach for developing distributed systems in Objective Caml. In Opis, a protocol description consists of a reactive function (called event function) describing the behavior of a distributed system node. The event functions in Opis are built from pure functions as building blocks, composed using the Arrow combinators. This facilitates reasoning about event functions both informally and using interactive provers. For example, this approach leads to simple termination arguments. Given a protocol description, a developer can use higher-order library functions of Opis to 1) deploy the distributed system, 2) run the distributed system in a network simulator with full-replay capabilities, 3) apply explicit-state model checking to the distributed system and detect any undesirable behaviors, and 4) do performance analysis on the system. We describe the design and implementation of Opis, and present our experience in using Opis to develop peer-to-peer overlay protocols including the Chord distributed hash table and the Cyclon random gossip protocol. We have found that using Opis results in high programmer productivity and leads to concise and easily composable protocol descriptions. Moreover, Opis tools were effective in helping identify and eliminate correctness and performance problems during distributed system development. reminiscent of thoughts I've been having about a language based on the reactor pattern.
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san_diego
[pirate_eggie]
 | 01:14 pm - recycling clothing
Hi all, sorry if this has been asked before - I did a quick Google and looked briefly through the journal memories.
I'm in the process of purging my closet and I have several clothing items that I can't sell or donate. They're a couple of old paint-stained/ripped jeans and some old bras. Rather than throwing them away I was wondering if there are any recycling facilities in the area that recycle cloth. I was looking online at the SD County recycling page and it looks like they deal mostly with electronics/paper/plastic etc, but I haven't looked through all the facilities yet. I'm thinking of trying Freecycle/Craigslist as well, but if that fails, has anybody recycled clothing in SD, and if so, what is the best venue to do so?
Thanks in advance!
I also have a free lawn chair if anybody wants it. It's nothing fancy - a non-folding, beige plastic chair. I'm in the UTC area if you want to pick up.
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nfnitperplexity
 | 12:46 pm - the nerdiness continues
Barring catastrophe, my paladin will reach second level this Thursday. That means I get a utility power and a feat, and now that I've looked over the feats I'm realizing that the multi-classing feats seem much better than the alternatives. The cleric feat gives healing word once per day, which is pretty good, and if I took power-swap feats later they'd use a holy symbol, which I'd already have as a paladin.
The fey warlock feat, on the other hand gives eyebite as an encounter power, which is actually pretty awesome for a paladin. Currently, when combat starts at a distance, my options for the first round are to charge or throw a hammer (both of which are far weaker than my at-wills (and use Strength) or hold my action (which is risky.) If I took the warlock multi-class feat, I could take a movement action to close part of the distance, take a minor action to divine challenge one of the enemies, and then cast eyebite to engage the enemy. The enemy would then have to choose between attacking someone else with a -2 penalty and taking 6 radiant damage or attacking my 20 armor class with a -5 penalty for total concealment.
At higher levels, the warlock feat gets weaker because I can't cast it through my holy symbol. But that's what re-training is for, right?
So anyway, I need a good rationalization...er...I mean, in-character reason why a dwarven paladin of Bahamut is making a pact with a fey creature. Maybe I'm visited by a unicorn or a fey dragon that claims to be a servant of Bahamut?
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