Rostropovich died today. He’s always been one of my role models and heroes. His collaborations with Britten and Prokofiev and Shostakovich resulted in some of the best cello music ever written. I had the picture… Mstislav Rostropovich, 1927-2007
We just got back from seeing C.R.A.Z.Y. as part of the FilmOut San Diego film festival. It’s a great movie. Coming of age/coming out story, a theme that has been done and done and overdone… C.R.A.Z.Y.ness
Last night I cooked a whole fish for the first time. I had gone to Whole Foods thinking fish. The fillets they had were uninspiring, and there wasn’t a salmon steak in sight,. But the… I called him Monty
Wednesday night we went to see the Matt Wilson Arts & Crafts jazz ensemble. Part of the Athenaeum Jazz at the Neurosciences Institute series. Good good good. They started off with some Thelonius Monk –… Arts & Crafts
We had the water off today. Only a few hours. Supposed to happen again tomorrow. Backflow prevention or something like that. Not a huge deal, but annoying. Like, eating an orange, and then can’t wash… Preventing Backflow
The subject pool might be a bigger problem than I thought at first. It seems from what I’ve been hearing that the Michigan Paid Experiments pool isn’t being maintained. The software is still the same… Getting Subjects
I’m thinking today about incentives. In my first experiment, subjects were given the incentive that the PPT they created would be graded on a scale of 1 to 10, and if they received a 10,… Incentives
So it’s been a while. I should try to post here more often. Coming up to a meeting with the committee on Thursday morning. They’ve had a chance to read over results from the first… Prepping for Ann Arbor
Today was mostly spent working on the procedure/overview document for my 2nd experiment. I need to get this done tomorrow so that I can get the IRB application in by next Tuesday (the due date… Prepping for Experiment #2