Psychonaut's Journal

UNIQ1d15b4ea33176ab6-hhtml-00000000-QINU

Conference on rudeness, verbal aggression, and mock politeness
The coolest call for papers just landed in my inbox. It's for <a href="http://impolin.com.pl/" rel="nofollow">a conference on impoliteness</a>, to be held i...
psychonaut@nothingisreal.com 2012-12-05 10:33:24
The prodigious coach
<div style="float: right; text-align: center; font-size: 80%; padding: 10px"><img style="border: thin solid black; box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px #888; margin: 15px;" width=...
psychonaut@nothingisreal.com 2012-12-04 21:35:36
Þóra destroys an orange
Apparently our Þóra has some irrational hatred of clementines. KILL ALL THE CLEMENTINES!!!
<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value=&q...
psychonaut@nothingisreal.com 2012-11-27 20:08:35
RPM patent
Red Hat has apparently referenced one of my papers in <a href="http://www.google.com/patents?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;vid=USPAT8185889&amp;id=u8sQAgAAEBAJ&amp;oi=fnd&amp;pr...
psychonaut@nothingisreal.com 2012-10-09 15:54:32
Psychonaut, your go-to guy for Commodore PET issues
I just got the following e-mail from a complete stranger:
<pre style="clear: both">A friend of mine passed away about 3 years ago and his wife is trying to getrid of his compute...
psychonaut@nothingisreal.com 2012-09-01 21:18:33
How many movies do you think you've watched in your life?
How many movies do you think you've watched in your life?
Me, I'm not sure. In 1997, I started keeping the ticket stubs ofall the films I went to see. For the first few years I dutifu...
psychonaut@nothingisreal.com 2012-08-21 20:21:33
为什么我永远也不会找到女朋友
A few days I received a message from Zhao Rongrong, who describes herself as "a Chinese girl who happened to read [my] article '<a href="http://en.nothingisre...
psychonaut@nothingisreal.com 2012-08-19 19:09:56
How Þjófur is seen
Apparently <a href="http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/what-people-think-i-do-what-i-really-do" rel="nofollow">this meme is so six months ago</a> but after seeing &lt...
psychonaut@nothingisreal.com 2012-08-10 18:22:52
In which my image is hijacked to promote street theatre
Darmstadt's street theatre festival is on this week! Here's a promotional video with footage from last year's festival. Nadya and I can be seen in the front row of the crowd at about 2:...
psychonaut@nothingisreal.com 2012-08-10 18:13:01
LastGraph
<a href="http://lastgraph.aeracode.org/" rel="nofollow">LastGraph</a> is a cool web application that produces a stream graph of your <a href="http://...
psychonaut@nothingisreal.com 2012-07-24 07:51:20
Our photos from the Isle of Man
<div style="text-align: center; width:640px;"><img style="border: thin solid black; box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px #888; margin: 15px;" width="360" height="48...
psychonaut@nothingisreal.com 2012-06-28 19:51:52
Copyright violations by Springer
This week several researchers reported that <a href="http://www.springer.com/" rel="nofollow">Springer</a> has been falsely asserting copyright on free images fr...
psychonaut@nothingisreal.com 2012-06-08 12:41:44
Learn Icelandic online!
My former teacher, <a href="http://www.icelandic-lessons.com/your-tutor/" rel="nofollow">Svava Skúladóttir</a>, is now offering Icelandic lessons online at her...
psychonaut@nothingisreal.com 2012-04-30 17:10:56
Chowder
Dinner last night: smoked mackerel and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crangon_crangon" rel="nofollow"><em lang="de">Nordseekrabben</em>&l...
psychonaut@nothingisreal.com 2012-03-12 11:35:59
Grízsmarni
<a title="Kaiserschmarrn" href="http://psych0naut.livejournal.com/47221.html" rel="nofollow">In January I posted about the <em lang="de">Kais...
psychonaut@nothingisreal.com 2012-03-09 15:25:01
Word sense disambiguation
My current research involves <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_sense_disambiguation" rel="nofollow">word sense disambiguation</a>, an open problem in ...
psychonaut@nothingisreal.com 2012-03-08 21:41:31
Þjófur the Vampire Ferret
Þjófur has biting problems.
One of her favourite things to do is to walk up to innocent, unsuspecting people (like Nadya or myself, but also random houseguests) and sink her teeth into them. ...
psychonaut@nothingisreal.com 2012-03-08 13:40:26
Berlin photos
At the end of January Nadya and I went to Berlin to submit mypassport application. While we were there we did some sightseeing.Nadya took most of the pictures, but following are the ones Itook:
psychonaut@nothingisreal.com 2012-03-04 20:03:46
German grades make no sense.
<a href="http://psych0naut.livejournal.com/45012.html" rel="nofollow">Aspreviously mentioned</a> I've been taking a German language course,<em lang="...
psychonaut@nothingisreal.com 2012-03-02 09:08:14
Das Vielmädchenproblem
I just received the following e-mail from one Eugen Fischer, whosays that three years ago he wrote up a statistical study on thelikelihood of finding a suitable romantic partner. He did thisignora...
psychonaut@nothingisreal.com 2012-02-27 21:16:13
Rakott krumpli
<em lang="hu"><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=rakott+krumpli&amp;hl=en&amp;prmd=imvnse&amp;tbm=isch&amp;tbo=u&amp;source=univ&amp;sa=X&q...
psychonaut@nothingisreal.com 2012-02-23 20:40:53
Zwiebelkuchen
Nadya makes delicious <em lang="de">Zwiebelkuchen</em>, a kind of Germanonion pie. She uses <a title="Zwiebelkuchen" href="http://www.bavariankitchen.co...
psychonaut@nothingisreal.com 2012-02-03 19:44:04
Walther der Frauenversteher
We had been living in Darmstadt for almost six months without everhaving switched on our television except to watch DVDs and downloadedmovies. But at my insistence Nadya has recently started watch...
psychonaut@nothingisreal.com 2012-01-28 22:24:31
Kaiserschmarrn
One of our favourite foods for breakfast, or for that matter anyother meal, is <em lang="de">Kaiserschmarrn</em>. Growing up I knewthis by its Hungarian name, <em lang=&qu...
psychonaut@nothingisreal.com 2012-01-17 21:18:05
Kutia
I have discovered ambrosia, and its name is kutia.
<div style="text-align: center"><img width="640" height="480" alt="[photo of kutia]" ...
psychonaut@nothingisreal.com 2012-01-14 13:07:30