Surprise! Or maybe, not so much of one.

[solarbird]

February Flowers

Finally, here are the 2006 Flower and Garden Show photographs, as promised. ETA: These are all the still photos I took, so there are a lot of them. But they're thumbnailed and everything, so there's no shock horror of bandwidth if you go look. They're photos of anything I found interesting, particularly cool, particularly tacky, or wanted to remember for later. So that means you get some product shots; those are things I'd like to buy at some point. ^_^ And yes, I shot pictures of every greenhouse set up at the show.

It's supposed to be very cold the next few nights, so I've set up my little 40-watt garden heater around the strange palm-tree-like plant in the south garden. The ground in that section didn't warm up above freezing all day, and we've still got traces of snow from the quarter-inch or so we got a few days ago, so I can't even guess what -8C is going to do to it. I hope the tree survives; the base of its trunk is reasonably sheltered and now has a tiny heater made just for this sort of thing, so here's hoping.

Anyway, I just thought I'd put that up. I suspect I'm putting up too many pictures. I dunno. But this also made me laff, so now you get it:


Stair, n00b

And I promised a photo of the peek-a-boo view we suddenly have of the lake and south Kenmore; it has indeed turned out to be a wintertime-only view, as this picture clearly shows.


Well Lookie Thar, Martha

Tuesday's token: 0.1
Wednesday's miles: 2.5
Today's (Thursday's) miles: 3.1
Miles out of Hobbiton: 605.3
Miles out of Rivendell: 145.4
Miles to Lothlórien: 320.9

The neurolinguistics paper I just finished - the one that was actually a chapter of a book - gave me some ideas that tie in to some older ideas I've had about language processing going back to undergrad. I'm thinking of setting up a dev environment again so that I can try some things. I'll have to re-learn old IPC stuff if I really want to do this right, though. Today's paper: "Novice learners, longitudinal designs, and event-related potentials; A means for exploring the neurocognition of second-language processing," a paper I mostly want to read because I'm so bad at second languages. ^_^

Comments

[chirik.livejournal.com]

What type of flower is that? It looks closely related to an artichoke.

[solarbird]

I've no idea. It wasn't even a live plant, it was in the flower arrangements section in the front.

[banner.livejournal.com]

There is a group in Colorado someplace doing a whole bunch of stuff on language processing in infants and children. We were making a device for them, as well as setting up all sorts of computer automated language processing at my last job (my Boss's degree was in some sort of language pathology or something like that). I'm trying to remember the name of the company, the project (and device) was called 'LENA' and I know there are a lot of papers on it out there now. Supposedly they're doing some very interesting stuff with language processing, you might want to look into it.