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See the #fireworks I created by blogging on #WordPressDotCom. My 2012 annual report.

See the #fireworks I created by blogging on #WordPressDotCom. My 2012 annual report.. Filed under: Random

One last sale for the year Dec 24 – Dec 28

One last sale for the year Dec 24 – Dec 28. Filed under: Random

One last sale for the year Dec 24 – Dec 28

Merry Xmas and Happy New Year to everyone.  Amazon has recently added my book, Urtaru, to its kindle stores in several countries around the world such as India, Japan, Canada, Brazil, Italy, Spain, Germany and the UK. Thanks Amazon.  The sale starts at Midnight PST on December 24th and goes through December 28th for free [...]

Various samples of my writing over several years

Hi folks, I’ve done a lot of writing beside blogging over the last 5 years.  Here’s a bunch of stuff that might be interesting: CREATIVE WRITING FROM VARIOUS TIMES IN MY LIFE Flying From Boston to Rochester (1987) Library Noise (1987) A Recipe Worth the Weight Urtaru (Volume 1)  BENTLEY MBA CONCENTRATION HF700 RESEARCH PAPERS [...]

The Armenian Stonehenge (without painting themselves blue)

History of Carahunge (borrowed from http://www.carahunge.com/history.html ” 2004 © CARAHUNGE ” All rights reserved) Around 200km from Yerevan, the capital of the Republic of Armenia, not far from the town of Sisian, there is a Prehistoric Monument consisting of hundreds of Standing Stones on a territorial area of approximately 7 hectares. Many of these stones [...]

Thinking about thinking about thinking

I’ve just written the penultimate draft of my paper that is due Tuesday. I saved it, and closed Word. I had to.  Final edits tomorrow, of which the ultimate goal is to take my 6.25 pages of 1.5 spaced text (not including abstract and citations) and distill it down to a readable 5 pages. This is [...]

Homework

So I’m sitting there reading Chapter 7 of Colin Ware’s Information Visualization which has to do with depth perception and whatnot.  Doing homework.  My third paper for my Human Factors class will be about mental models and affordances with respect to my livescribe pen and pad.  Thought it would be interesting. This isn’t about my [...]

Romnesia vs O-blah-ma

So sitting here watching the current campaign, I get a bit tired. Partisans on both sides claim the other person is evil incarnate, lacking leadership, clueless, unapproachable, mean, nasty, out of touch et cetera. I’m mostly disappointed. Truth is that Romney isn’t as deep a conservative as he had claimed he was, and Obama isn’t [...]

Scrivener

So I paid for a copy of scrivener on the mac app store tonight.  I had been evaluating it and broke down tonight.  Anyway, I still had the $50 apple gift card that I got when I bought my iPad, so it was essentially free.  It does what I had tried to do by individual [...]

European Languages originated in Armenian Highlands

Reblogged from Notes of a Spurkahye: A brand new study published in the latest edition of Science journal reveals the origins of the Indo-European language family located in ancient Armenian Highlands. The so called Anatolian urheimat theory first proposed in the late 1980s by Prof Colin Renfrew (now Lord Renfrew) received gradual acceptance, but remained controversial until a new method of [...]