Daniel M. Drucker, Ph.D. http://dmd.3e.org Most recent posts at Daniel M. Drucker, Ph.D. posterous.com Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:58:00 -0700 Untitled http://dmd.3e.org/67649089 http://dmd.3e.org/67649089

I think this blog is essentially dead - other means of self-publishing (Flickr, G+, etc.) have pretty much taken over its role for me. Nothing more to see here, folks.

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  1. Everyone gets a deck of green (adjective) cards.
  2. Go through your cards, and select ones that apply to the other players, and deal them to that player face down.
  3. When everyone's done describing everyone else, shuffle the locations of the piles so nobody knows which goes with whom.
  4. Flip over the cards, and figure out which pile is which person.
Warning: This can be extremely cruel.

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Irene and I got bored.

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By Aaron, many years ago:

Wwii_army_man

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/506245/epicycleaf-full-green-white-350.png http://posterous.com/users/3snDiwmCOCHf Daniel Drucker Daniel Daniel Drucker Sat, 12 Jun 2010 02:33:00 -0700 Ankh-Morpork's Undertaking http://dmd.3e.org/dmd/scents/archives/542 http://dmd.3e.org/dmd/scents/archives/542

I made an Undertaking (subway) map for Ankh-Morpork, set about 50 years in the future (from canon "now"). I took some liberties with names of places, given the time gap. For instance, Dolly Sisters has become Dollisters, the Whore Pits has become Harpits. Locations are based on the canonical Ankh-Morpork map. Note that the logo is actually octarine - your monitor may not calibrated to display that color properly.

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edit: as people have asked, here's a very rough sketch I used when laying out the lines...
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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/506245/epicycleaf-full-green-white-350.png http://posterous.com/users/3snDiwmCOCHf Daniel Drucker Daniel Daniel Drucker Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:47:00 -0800 Street View http://dmd.3e.org/dmd/scents/archives/500 http://dmd.3e.org/dmd/scents/archives/500

I made a Google Street view timelapse movie of Philadelphia's Walnut Street.

Philadelphia_Walnut_Street.mp4 Watch on Posterous

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Daniel M. Drucker collaborated on Distinguishing conjoint and independent neural tuning for stimulus features with fMRI adaptation with Geoffrey K. Aguirre

Geoffrey K. Aguirre collaborated on Neural activity within area V1 reflects unconscious visual performance in a case of Blindsight with David H. Brainard

David H. Brainard played the part of Samuel Allison in Fat Man and Little Boy with John Cusack

John Cusack was in Adaptation with Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep was in The River Wild with Kevin Bacon

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/506245/epicycleaf-full-green-white-350.png http://posterous.com/users/3snDiwmCOCHf Daniel Drucker Daniel Daniel Drucker Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:06:00 -0700 a new game http://dmd.3e.org/dmd/scents/archives/475 http://dmd.3e.org/dmd/scents/archives/475
  1. think of something banal that new-world-order nuts might believe is part of the conspiracy
  2. use google to find evidence that someone DOES believe this.

my first win: the offset-printing calibration marks on cereal boxes

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ANOTHER PLANE CRASHES. ARE AIRPLANES SAFE?

in this corner, from the mystery fairy land of Science, we have ACTUAL STATISTICS

and in this corner, we have RECENCY EFFECTS and AVAILABILITY HEURISTICS

ROUND ONE.... FIGHT!

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/506245/epicycleaf-full-green-white-350.png http://posterous.com/users/3snDiwmCOCHf Daniel Drucker Daniel Daniel Drucker Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:37:00 -0800 growing up http://dmd.3e.org/dmd/scents/archives/444 http://dmd.3e.org/dmd/scents/archives/444

On reddit: "What made you realize you were an adult?"

My response: This happened to me in two stages.

In stage one, I realized that if I wanted a reeses peanut butter cup, I could just fucking buy one and eat it. Nobody could tell me not to.

In stage two, my wife told me not to.

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Bottled water at conference, 5 dollars.

Bottled water at cvs a block away, 1 dollar.

stickin' it to the man, Priceless.

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I have completed my NaNoWriMo novel.

nanowrimo.pdf Download this file

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/506245/epicycleaf-full-green-white-350.png http://posterous.com/users/3snDiwmCOCHf Daniel Drucker Daniel Daniel Drucker Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:43:00 -0700 llama llama panda http://dmd.3e.org/dmd/scents/archives/410 http://dmd.3e.org/dmd/scents/archives/410

me: have you considering quitting science and entering the lucrative fast-growing field of alpaca farming?

Wesley: what's an alpaca?

me: You've got to be kidding me.

(pause for Wesley's Googling)

Wesley: that's hilarious. it's like a panda, only a llama

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/506245/epicycleaf-full-green-white-350.png http://posterous.com/users/3snDiwmCOCHf Daniel Drucker Daniel Daniel Drucker Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:08:00 -0700 Not that what I said makes much more sense. http://dmd.3e.org/dmd/scents/archives/407 http://dmd.3e.org/dmd/scents/archives/407

daniel: Have you ever considered using your work for evil?

sarah: Isn't that what orcs are for?

daniel: ... work.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/506245/epicycleaf-full-green-white-350.png http://posterous.com/users/3snDiwmCOCHf Daniel Drucker Daniel Daniel Drucker Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:12:00 -0700 whines http://dmd.3e.org/dmd/scents/archives/399 http://dmd.3e.org/dmd/scents/archives/399

Hunting down a runaway process that's destroying your battery life sucks, to be sure. But you know what sucks more? Not being able to listen to music while I chat. -- Mike Ash

daniel: This belongs on White Whine

sarah: says the guy who bemoans the lack of a steamed crab bar at his local grocery store

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