I’ve recorded ~7 minutes of ambient noise out on Polk Place. Note that the bell tower rings half past at 4:12 in the recording. You can find multiple file formats here. Please note that this audio is free to use under a Creative Commons license:
Polk Place in Summer by Cristóbal Palmer is licensed under a [...]
At the Daily Grind just now the young lady ahead of me had a stack of brightly-colored flash cards. On the flash cards were the amino acids. Seeing that brought back a lot of NCSSM memories again. This past weekend I did a fair bit of cleaning/purging and ended up parting with physics, cell biology, [...]
The Union has a shiny web-based system for room reservations. Ouch:
I have to read and respond to this article for my 08:00 class:
Comeau and Wilbur (2004), “Non-Word Identification or Spell Checking without a Dictionary.” JASIST, 55(2), 169-177.
The hilarious part is that “Comeau” is misspelled as “Commeau” on the class website. The article is actually fairly interesting. The authors use a [...]
I just finished giving a demo for a database class, and I was very happy to do this as soon as I was done:
root@kant:~# dpkg -P oracle-xe-universal
(Reading database … 121041 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing oracle-xe-universal …
Purging configuration files for oracle-xe-universal …
root@kant:~#
When it works, it seems to work fairly well, but there were FAR too [...]
I may be abusing the term BIRG here, but I just saw two people BIRGing by wearing Harvard shirts while going to get coffee. If I had more time I’d try to articulate why this annoys the crap out of me, but fortunately I’m rather busy getting ready for a graduate level database systems exam. [...]
Maybe I only find this funny because it’s late…
Subject: Re: project almost done [...]
I’ve been quoted in the paper.
Sadly, the article focuses heavily on the downsides of using p2p networks to get music from RIAA-signed artists. Worse, it equates “famous” artists with RIAA-signed artists. Perhaps I didn’t communicate clearly. I come out like this:
Palmer said the idea of downloading MP3 files for free and legally from famous artists, [...]
Somebody wandered by the ibiblio office to take our picture for a press release earlier today, and I look ridiculous in it:
Sheesh! I wish she’d taken a few more shots. I definitely wasn’t ready for that one.
Seriously though: it’s an honor to be a part of the team that keeps ibiblio running, and [...]
Looks like I got clearance. The song is in the public domain and the two musicians are happy to share this version of “Sail Away Ladies” under a Creative Commons License. The two musicians are Jason “Jaso” Phillips (fiddle) and David Cranford (banjo), seen below holding their instruments.
Thanks guys! I look forward to coming out [...]
