You might look into Regent Square. It's a little further from the universities, but near my favorite urban park (Frick Park) and has a nice little business district. If I were for some strange reason going to consider moving back to my home town, it's the neighborhood I'd want to live in.
All of the topics you mention are themes at U.C. Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems (and, to be fair, many other Information Systems graduate programs, but I can speak with more certainty about SIMS since I got my Master's degree there). SIMS emphasizes interdisciplinary work, with joint faculty and courses with the law, business, and computer science schools. From my POV, the best thing about SIMS is that you can really define your own direction; depending on one's temperament, that might be a bad thing, instead, but it sounds like it would work for you...
Has anyone come across a site with an easy to read list of remaining uncalled states, with numbers of electoral votes? All the cute maps are, um, cute, but I just want to see the detailed stats on the gray areas at once...
A few years ago, I happened to see a performance at the Edinburgh Festival (billed as an opera, but I'd call it a musical) of "I was looking at the ceiling and then I saw the sky", music by John Adams (known for "Nixon in China"), libretto by June Jordan. Absolutely amazing.
Yeah, OK, maybe it's a tempest in a teapot, but this is really funny:
A Spanish-language version of Windows XP, destined for Latin American markets, asked users to select their gender between "not specified," "male" or "bitch," because of an unfortunate error in translation.
Unfortunate! Ha! Thanks JG.
most of us probably have bene told that the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body, and vice versa (it's mostly true, too). so, the idea that a horse kicking in the left side of his head could cause damage to muscle function in the left side of his head was a stretch even for an old doctor in 1952
Minor point, CLF: I have indeed been told that the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body, etc, but I've also been told the cross-over point is somewhere around the top of the spine. So an injury to one side of the head would be unlikely to damage muscle function below the neck on that side of the body, but facial damage might be another story.
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor, nor a biologist, nor do I play one on television. No doubt if I've got this wrong someone will be along to correct me.
Having said all that, please note that I don't actually disagree with your overall conclusion.
You might look into Regent Square. It's a little further from the universities, but near my favorite urban park (Frick Park) and has a nice little business district. If I were for some strange reason going to consider moving back to my home town, it's the neighborhood I'd want to live in.
posted by jaeclectic 18 years ago
In "She's ... um ... dancing with a ... um ... er ... yeah ..."
I think it was Sigmund Freud who once said "sometimes a robot is only a robot".
posted by jaeclectic 19 years ago
In "finding lost friends"
No, no. Northern California wants to be it's own country. The rest of California can go to hell.
posted by jaeclectic 19 years ago
In "Curious George: Hactivist Friendly Graduate Programs"
All of the topics you mention are themes at U.C. Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems (and, to be fair, many other Information Systems graduate programs, but I can speak with more certainty about SIMS since I got my Master's degree there). SIMS emphasizes interdisciplinary work, with joint faculty and courses with the law, business, and computer science schools. From my POV, the best thing about SIMS is that you can really define your own direction; depending on one's temperament, that might be a bad thing, instead, but it sounds like it would work for you...
posted by jaeclectic 20 years ago
In "THE BIG FAT THREAD FOR THE ELECTIONS"
Has anyone come across a site with an easy to read list of remaining uncalled states, with numbers of electoral votes? All the cute maps are, um, cute, but I just want to see the detailed stats on the gray areas at once...
posted by jaeclectic 20 years ago
In "Mellifluous George"
A few years ago, I happened to see a performance at the Edinburgh Festival (billed as an opera, but I'd call it a musical) of "I was looking at the ceiling and then I saw the sky", music by John Adams (known for "Nixon in China"), libretto by June Jordan. Absolutely amazing.
posted by jaeclectic 20 years ago
In "International woes for Microsoft"
Yeah, OK, maybe it's a tempest in a teapot, but this is really funny: A Spanish-language version of Windows XP, destined for Latin American markets, asked users to select their gender between "not specified," "male" or "bitch," because of an unfortunate error in translation. Unfortunate! Ha! Thanks JG.
posted by jaeclectic 20 years ago
In "Thirty-Two Things that President Bush is Not."
Wow, spackle. Just... wow.
posted by jaeclectic 20 years ago
In "Vaccinations Against Drugs: Coming Soon to a School Near You."
Monkeyfilter: Puritanism in a vial. *giggle* But yeah, what rogerd said.
posted by jaeclectic 20 years ago
In "Monkeys"
*smiles and waves to all fans of redheads, thumbs nose at others*
posted by jaeclectic 20 years ago
In "A previously unrecognised Daguerrotype Portrait of the Young Abraham Lincoln"
most of us probably have bene told that the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body, and vice versa (it's mostly true, too). so, the idea that a horse kicking in the left side of his head could cause damage to muscle function in the left side of his head was a stretch even for an old doctor in 1952 Minor point, CLF: I have indeed been told that the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body, etc, but I've also been told the cross-over point is somewhere around the top of the spine. So an injury to one side of the head would be unlikely to damage muscle function below the neck on that side of the body, but facial damage might be another story. Disclaimer: I am not a doctor, nor a biologist, nor do I play one on television. No doubt if I've got this wrong someone will be along to correct me. Having said all that, please note that I don't actually disagree with your overall conclusion.
posted by jaeclectic 20 years ago
In "Javalog is a fireplace log made out of coffee grounds."
Can I send them my coffee grounds to recycle? Also, *joining in the applause for Argh*
posted by jaeclectic 20 years ago
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