Honestly, I’ve had it up to here with the nincompoop-edness of LSE administrative folks. I’ve been waiting for my degree certificate since my December 18 graduation ceremony (which I didn’t attend). I assumed that graduates would have been handed their certificates there but it turned out that wasn’t the case, so I waited a couple [...]
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I’ve been working with Excel a lot these past few months. At least half my time these days is spent writing and running spreadsheets and interpreting the results I get from them. In many cases, I run a lengthy batch of calculations overnight and then have Excel produce a pivot table and save the results [...]
Out of sight, out of mind
23Nov07A couple of weeks ago, Newsweek’s cover proclaimed that Pakistan is the most dangerous country in the world. It was only mildly disturbing, since constant immersion in hostile media does tend to numb one’s senses. I came across this wonderful article a few days ago. Every once in a while, an article comes by that scrapes [...]
Insanity
18Nov07There’s so much of it to pick from, but here’s a sampler: The IJT has expelled 17 members over the Imran Khan incident. Yay. But brace yourself now for the ‘operation’ that the IJT will launch to maintain its ‘hold on PU’. Na Islami, na Talib, siraf Jamia. Mr. Musharraf isn’t in right now. Choice quote: “Before [...]
Stages of intelligence
25Aug07Certainty Uncertainty Certainty about uncertainty Uncertainty about uncertainty Certainty about the uncertainty of uncertainty I’m not sure if that pattern continues (there’s a tower law in there after stage 5, I think). My data suggests ‘achievers’ inhabit the odd-numbered stages; ‘thinkers’ and ‘feelers’ inhabit the even-numbered ones. Make sense?
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03Aug07PylaKasha tagged me, so here we go with 8 things about me. I’m a little bit of a snob, and a little self-centered. Like I saw this on Kyla’s blog and mentally snorted and thought, ‘not me’. And then I thought, ooh, a solicitation to yap. About me, no less. Doesn’t happen every day. But it’s [...]
‘Female’
13Jul07Here’s a fun thing to do when you have some free time: count the number of times women are referred to as ‘females’ in the popular media. I think it started in hip-hop culture (eg, “I can’t congratulate these females”), but it seems to be entering the mainstream now. I don’t quite understand it — [...]
PKBloggers
20Jun07Apparently, PKBloggers have listed me as ‘Voila!’ (check their right-hand column). I can’t tell if this is a good thing or a bad thing.
Trying out annotations with JKN
28May07Woohoo. I just created my first annotated webpage using JKN. It’s an interview with Benny Morris, who wrote ‘The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem’, and it’s absolutely fascinating reading. My annotations aren’t too deep (half are things like ’shocking!’), but there are a few important ones, like the one at the very end. It’s [...]
I’m claiming this
19May07To err is human, to metaphor divine. I Google’d and didn’t find it, so I am officially claiming it. Given most people put emphasis on the second syllable in ‘metaphor’, I’m afraid it’s only going to rhyme half the time (and is therefore a half-rhyme! Thanks folks, I’ll be here all week…). (No seriously, it’s a half-rhyme…Mrs. [...]
Salvador Dali is the King
12May07Was? Hmm. Slate’s awesome Today’s Pictures recently did a (http://todayspictures.slate.com/dalihap/). Dali Atomicus, above, is my favourite of the ones in the gallery — absolutely striking. This is the sort of art I can appreciate: no blather about the artist’s background or influences, just switch off your brain and look. Everyone visiting London should plan to spend an [...]
Random update
20Apr07Y’know, I wonder sometimes just how perfect life would be if my only responsibility was to feed myself. I mean, daaaaamn, I’m good at it. I got back from Pakistan on Sunday and am catching up on my studying, which lost out to Mac and Irti for my time during the trip. So far it’s been [...]
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