Daniel

Facebook photo tags export

A few months ago, I scanned a few thousand old family photos and uploaded them to Facebook. Family members and friends came out of the woodwork from all over the world and helped tag them, identifying faces I barely remembered from childhood or had never known at all. I wanted

Real Estate Disclosures

I'm starting to keep track of what the MLS Disclosures for a house should have REALLY said. DISCLOSURES: Architect basically phoned it in. DISCLOSURES: If you have a shred of soul in you it will be eradicated by taking one step into this home. DISCLOSURES: There is probably

Generation gap: How communication modes are perceived by different ages.

up to 30 30 – 50 50 and up phone call What’s a phone call? Rude. Interrupting, presumptuous. Polite. email Rude. Long-winded, waste of time. Polite. Rude. Impersonal. text/tweet Polite. Rude. Brusque, impersonal. What’s a text?

calendrical calculations

I'm trying to define a new [silly] calendar, because there aren't enough of them yet. My calendar, so far, is specified: epoch (orthodox) is the moment the leading edges of the dinosaur-killing asteroid touched the surface of the earth. As this is somewhat difficult to define,

Where I've been, redux.

I made a heatmap of all my USA Flickr photos.

China Miéville's ZORK

Every time. I go to bed and every time it happens. There I am, standing in an open field. There's a white house with a boarded up door. And every time there's a mailbox. Sometimes I think I was the one who boarded up the door.

Waiting for your party to respond...

lysol and I (well, mostly lysol) wrote a thing where you can pretend it's 1990 and you're talking in talk: typeto.me 2024 update: Now rewritten by tmkf / Jordan Byrd to be way more awesome looking (and maintainable, too).

Apples to Apples

We invented a game to play with Apples to Apples cards. 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

The Brothers Go Skiing

Ankh-Morpork's Undertaking

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

Erdos-Bacon Number

[5] Daniel M. Drucker with Geoffrey K. Aguirre: Distinguishing conjoint and independent neural tuning for stimulus features with fMRI adaptation [4] Geoffrey K. Aguirre with David H. Brainard: Neural activity within area V1 reflects unconscious visual performance in a case of Blindsight [3] David H. Brainard played the part of

psycholinguists scare me

NaNoWriMo finished in record time.

I have completed my NaNoWriMo novel. Hipster Posturing, available on Amazon or for free here. Hipster Posturing Hipster Posturing.pdf 204 KB download-circle

A Real Country Song

by my dad David.        Attempted Country (David Drucker)   G                    C I wanted to write me a real country song      G                            D7 The kind that would make the gals swoon       G          B            C          Am With pedal steel wailing, and two banjos frailing      D7                         G All played under Neil's harvest

Sculpey fractals

SVN measurements

X axis is revision number - Y axis is time elapsed, in days, since last revision. X axis is date - Y axis is revision number.

Sarah On Sloths

Sarah writes: I am truly, deeply horrified of tree sloths. Seriously. In the dark one night I woke up suddenly to see a crouching lumpy thing on top of my dresser and was convinced beyond all rationalization that it was a sloth, come to get me. (It was a sweater.

Experiments in color

Tiddles - Adrian Legg

Adrian Legg's "Tiddles", transcribed here because nobody else has ever transcribed it, according to Google. My auntie Nell noticed a smell coming from inside the shed. She opened the door and there on the floor was Tiddles the cat, quite dead. His fur was no longer

The wonders of metadata

Sarah and I have been geotagging for a while - in fact, around 80% of our 5000+ photos have latitude and longitude metadata. Now that Flickr supports geotagging natively, it's easy to do lots of neat things with the millions of geotagged photos in Flickr. For instance, one

The semantics of Hoboes

We intended, at the outset, to generate a complete semantic breakdown of every one of the 700 Hoboes, but time and life caught up. Thus, we're open-sourcing this project, in the worst sense of the concept - we give up, and hope someone else will take up the

Pirates make it look so hard.

(up is northwest) Drawn from memory, after my cognitive neuroscience proseminar was discussing spatial representation in the hippocampus. I got it pretty much right except the scales are somewhat exaggerated around Anna's house and I screwed up the Montgomery Ave curve - it should be parallel to Lancaster

aphasia and back

Daniel's voice Sarah's voice Daniel and I were conversing about a paper he had to present when something I said caused him to laugh.  I don't remember what I said, and I don't remember it being funny; the laughter seemed intensely inappropriate.

Computer Names

birthdate name first os first home explanation decommissioned 1994 playdoh MacOS 7 Great Barrington, MA Parody of Plato, main Simon's Rock server. 1995 1997 solace WinNT 4 Amherst, MA primary home machine 1999 1997 eco Linux Cambridge, MA After the semiotician. Main web/mail server of the 3e.

Funeral

I went to my grandfather's funeral today, and learned there for the first time what he did in the Navy in world war two, and a little bit about why, his whole life, he was always the first to volunteer to do anything and everything. Apparently, everyone in