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| Don Blaheta is a sixth-year PhD student in Computer Science at Brown University, studying Natural Language Processing; he just finished up an AM in Linguistics across the street in the Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences. In his copious free time, he does competitive ballroom dancing, sings in two choirs, hangs out with the Brown-RISD Catholic Community, knits obsessively, and reads sci-fi, fantasy, and alternate history novels. |
09 November 2002
Kevin seems to have come through the surgery fine (and boy oh boy, Kevin on morphine is a sight to see, or rather an event to behold)---still hurts, but at least with the promise of getting better.
Also, I put up a page with some details of and pictures of me in my Halloween costume.
"Man, what are New Mexicans doing in New York anyway? Isn't the INS doing its job?" --Sendhil Revuluri
Posted 1:51 AM [+]
08 November 2002
My housemate is under the knife right now to fix his shoulder, which has been hurting him increasingly over the last year or so. Recovery will be long, but at least the doctors are confident that it will, eventually, get better. Let's hope so---the enforced inactivity was killing him.
"Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded." --Abraham Lincoln
Posted 12:16 PM [+]
07 November 2002
There was a column in the BDH today with an odd but very interesting perspective on the abortion question. The short summary is: "Y'all are being inconsistent: yes, abortion is murder, yes it's bad, but sometimes it may be justifiable anyway." But don't take my word for it, you should read it yourself.
In local news, I'm mostly done with my research statements and teaching philosophy statements, after which I can send out the job apps. It's kind of tricky, boiling all that down into roughly one page (each) of text, and trusting that the rest of it will all come out in the interview. Put another way, I'm reasonably confident that once I get an interview, I have excellent chances; I'm just worried about finding a way to make my application stand out enough to get me that far. Or maybe my insecurity is unwarranted; hard to tell, really.
In other local news, the Brown comp is on Sunday, and between putting in work on that and on my applications, and actually doing research, I haven't gotten much sleep lately. :P Can't wait til next week (and my mom will be here!).
"I swear something pink just flew past my window and oinked at me." --Kevin Price
Posted 11:15 PM [+]
05 November 2002
Well, I just performed my civic duty, and voted. (And my political duty, and filled out the exit poll. :) Go vote!
"Miss Manners is sorry to inform you that proper school dress is what your parents and teachers deem proper dress, modified by whatever you can manage to do to it that they fail to notice." --Miss Manners
Posted 2:22 PM [+]
| Don Blaheta / blahedo@brown.edu |
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