Life in Kana-text (er… CONtext)
Galileo and Newton measured linear time with pendulums and water clocks—and that type of time measurement is one I can wrap my head around. Einstein had more flexible ideas about time and relativity, and though I confess the physics of Einstein-time are fuzzier to me, there has to be something to it, just based on … Continue reading A Smashmatician Ponders Relative Time
I was rummaging through some old notebooks today, trying to find the lyrics to a song we loved as kids–”If everybody had a tail and chose its shape and size“… What I found instead was a pair of pages written about a decade ago, reflecting on the different personalities with which I seemed to write … Continue reading Wearing a Party-Tail
I recently took the FaceBook quiz, “What kind of underwear are you?” Please don’t ask me why I would do such a thing. (Ironically, I hit cancel rather than let the results post to my FB page—because I didn’t want people to know I was so silly. But here we are…) I’m sure you can … Continue reading Boxers & Blugs
So I signed up for NaNoWriMo this year—the Extreme Writing Event wherein crazed participants skip sleeping for the month of November and work to turn out a 50,000 word novel in 30 days… And those of you who have been reading here for a few weeks know that I pledged not to blog about the … Continue reading Breaking my own Rules: Observations from the NaNoWriMo Lab Notebook
Hi, my name is Kana, and I'm a stats-aholic. I admit it. I look at my blog stats a lot. It's the feel-good-fix for which I don't want to go to Anonymous meetings. Unlike alcohol (for which I DO go to meetings), my stats addiction doesn't turn me Stupid. (At least, I don't think it … Continue reading Confessions of a Statistics Slut
If you don't do your blogging from an iPad, there's one thing you might not realize about your WordPress blog. The "default settings" on your blog are programmed to send iPad viewers to a specialized "mobile view" of your blog called OnSwipe--and (speaking as an uber-frustrated iPad reader-of-blogs) the OnSwipe view is CRAP. So I … Continue reading Blogger Call to Action: Please Help Me Happy-Dance
I grew up in a family of Grammatical Puritans--English teachers on all sides. It might be permissible to become bored with grammar-reminders, but I'd damn-well-better-not become bored OF them. Or end a sentence with a preposition. Or split an infinitive. Or use "who" when "whom" would be correct (or the reverse). I was the only … Continue reading To Boldly Split an Infinitive…
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