If you want to try it yourself just go to Wordle.net.
December 03, 2008
Word Art with Wordle!
So worlde.com is fun. Here's what it gave me after I fed it the URL of this blog:
If you want to try it yourself just go to Wordle.net.
If you want to try it yourself just go to Wordle.net.
September 30, 2008
Big Research
Okay. Big news.
Back in February, I applied for a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant under the NSF's cultural anthropology program. It's a thing that we have to do as scientists, you know. Apply, get rejected. We wouldn't quite feel right if we weren't rejected from at least one application a year.
But uh oh.
This time, the NSF has decided to accept my proposal for quantitative ethnographic research on Indian caste. They'll fund the budget. This is great, but it means that I have to actually accomplish the ambitious goals I set for my self when the project was just a gleam in my eye. I suppose this is where the proverbial 'rubber' meets the metaphorical 'road.'
gulp.
Back in February, I applied for a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant under the NSF's cultural anthropology program. It's a thing that we have to do as scientists, you know. Apply, get rejected. We wouldn't quite feel right if we weren't rejected from at least one application a year.
But uh oh.
This time, the NSF has decided to accept my proposal for quantitative ethnographic research on Indian caste. They'll fund the budget. This is great, but it means that I have to actually accomplish the ambitious goals I set for my self when the project was just a gleam in my eye. I suppose this is where the proverbial 'rubber' meets the metaphorical 'road.'
gulp.
August 28, 2008
Serious Back Up
Click! The power goes out. It happens all the time here. Kodaikanal has an awfully irregular power grid. Often down for an hour or two a day, Kodai sometimes has scheduled outages, and during the monsoon, it gets even worse. This is maddening, especially if most of your work is on the computer.
Enter our Back Up system! A Micotek 850EB ("Technology we live," figure that slogan out!) Long Back Up UPS.
It's 850 VA, and I bought a huge 160 Amp Hour 12 V inverter battery to go with it. They both sit on top of the fridge.
With this we should be able to run a number of lights, the DSL modem, the two laptops, the WiFi router, andt the Satellite radio when the power goes down, for many hours. We connected the backup to the one of Shelton's 3 circuits which carries the one computer system in the main bedroom, and added to it the entire second bedroom. We swapped out all the lights for Warm White CFLs, and will soon remove the second bedroom water heater from the backup circuit. This might seem rather mundane, but trust me, when your sanity (not to mention productivity) depends on it, it's a really big deal to have not just power, but also internet connectivity when the rest of town goes down...
As one friend said, though, couldn't we all just invest the same amount that you've spent for your house in the grid, and have a reliable grid instead? Don't I wish!
Any way, at least Shelton is ready for the monsoon.
All four pictures:
Click! The power goes out. It happens all the time here. Kodaikanal has an awfully irregular power grid. Often down for an hour or two a day, Kodai sometimes has scheduled outages, and during the monsoon, it gets even worse. This is maddening, especially if most of your work is on the computer.
Enter our Back Up system! A Micotek 850EB ("Technology we live," figure that slogan out!) Long Back Up UPS.
It's 850 VA, and I bought a huge 160 Amp Hour 12 V inverter battery to go with it. They both sit on top of the fridge.
With this we should be able to run a number of lights, the DSL modem, the two laptops, the WiFi router, andt the Satellite radio when the power goes down, for many hours. We connected the backup to the one of Shelton's 3 circuits which carries the one computer system in the main bedroom, and added to it the entire second bedroom. We swapped out all the lights for Warm White CFLs, and will soon remove the second bedroom water heater from the backup circuit. This might seem rather mundane, but trust me, when your sanity (not to mention productivity) depends on it, it's a really big deal to have not just power, but also internet connectivity when the rest of town goes down...
As one friend said, though, couldn't we all just invest the same amount that you've spent for your house in the grid, and have a reliable grid instead? Don't I wish!
Any way, at least Shelton is ready for the monsoon.
All four pictures:
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