Strike!

It's official. As of 12.01 am today McGill TAs are on strike!

Happy Easter

To those of my friends who celebrate today

Happy Easter

(Orthodox Easter is on April 27....)

Got in...

I got confirmation today that my abstract for CLA was accepted. So, I am going to Vancouver after all... :)

In the mean time, I just can't stop laughing after watching this:

(WATCH IT AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!!)


Apparently, this was someone's idea for a kid's toy!!!

Passed!!!!

What more to say? I got a few content questions (I guess if you point out problems of the analysis yourself and possible solutions, this disarms people!) and mostly comments for further development. Well, I still have the public presentation, but this should not be a problem....


And yes, I am very happy right now!!!

Fate written on hands...

I just finished reading an article in a Greek newspaper about digit ratio and its correlation to traits in health, behavior etc. (Here is Wikipedia's entry).In sum, the proponents of this scientific theory argue that there is relation between the index/ring finger ratio and some aspects of people's health and personality (It all has to do with testosterone levels in the development of the fetus that affect this ratio). Women have a ratio of 1 or more (the index is of the same length or even bigger than the ring finger, while men usually show a ratio of 0.98 (the ring finger is bigger)

Some of them say that people with a very "male" ratio (<0.9) are prone to arthritis and those with a very "female" one (>1.0) could develop neck cancer!
Although I would give some credit to this (after all, digit ratio is controlled by testosterone and there seems to be a relation between hormonal levels and predisposition to diseases) nevertheless, I find these conclusions a bit extreme.

And yes, they also correlate digit ratio with sexual orientation, but let's not get there...

Some good news....

I just finished the meeting with my eval. committee. It went well. Both PBG and R(F)FS seemed pleased with the content and made mostly stylish and clarification comments/questions for the draft.
That said, I am given till Monday to submit the final draft and I am defending on Friday!!!

O.K., now I can see how the white hair I have will increase with geometrical proportions....

Signs of life....

O.K., first post for 2008 (after a long period of silence!)
So what's up with me (if you are still wondering that is...)?

For the most part I am doing O.K.; I am still waiting for comments on a draft of an eval. paper that should have been submitted/defended/passed (or failed, there is always this chance) a long long time ago) but better late than never...

On other (academic) news, I have submitted an abstract for CLA, so I might (hopefully) get to Vancouver (which would have been my back-up plan 5 years ago), should I was not admitted in McGill).

In all other fronts, everything is quiet (maybe too quiet), but that's another story...

So, I will try to post more regularly, but I cannot make any promises on this...


Until next time....