what's your vote...

A: Headboard: Kirk Brummel, Pillow: Quadrille, Window: Victoria Hagan B. Headboard: QuadrilleC: Headboard: Victoria Haganwhen the hubbie leaves me at home (he went to pick up tay from camp- yippee), i play....here is what i just finished playing around with..tay's pitiful room doesn't even have a picture on the wall (i went on bed rest right after we moved here and then had a newborn). it's really...

Funding funnies

Image from Pacific Northwest National LabWe are trying to train our young son to ask for things politely. However, recently he's learned to demand things in typical toddler diva fashion, i.e., "I want X!"My husband, also an academic, started a game to train him out of this. Whenever our son said something like, "I want cheese!" my husband would reply, "I want funding!" or "I want a million dollars!"...

HKHC Visioning Series

Check out our posters for the upcoming Visioning Series...and come check out each event! Click on each poster to get a closer view...

girl time.

two of my bff's are in town for a couple of days and i couldn't be more excited...on our agenda: pool, pedicures, and lots of catching up and laughing. but right now, i'm off to make whole wheat pancakes w/ fresh fruit :)btw, did you see these fun desk chairs on design*sponge?? how can that not put a smile on your face??!*images courtesy of poppy & leo, style notes, ...

ICVSS 2010: some trivia

If you think that summer schools are only about lectures and posters, you are certainly wrong. Well, I also did not expect that I would get drunk every night (it was not in Russia after all!). On the first night I convinced people to go to the beach for night swimming, but on the next day I realized that it was not a really good idea, because lectures started at 9. Eventually, we did not go to bed...

HKHC Goals

Many of you may be wondering what it is we do. Here are some of our primary goals:1. Engage the community in a dialogue about healthy eating (HE) and active living (AL) policy, and what it means to you2. Promote HE and AL policy and environmental change in the City of Buffalo3. Work with the Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Board for AL matters4. Conduct a citywide assessment of policy conditions, physical and environmental landscape, and organizational...

What is Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities?

Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities - or HKHC - is a program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that focuses on policy- and environmental-change that increases opportunities for physical activity and healthy eating -- leading to better overall health.Why is this important? Good health goes beyond "not being sick." Good health includes eating right, getting enough exercise and feeling good about...

ICVSS 2010: Have you cited Lagrange?

Yeah, I have. :) Before the beginning of the summer school we received a homework assignment from Prof. Stefano Soatto. We had to read the three papers and discover the roots of ideas exploited by the authors. Such connections are not obligatory expressed by references. As a result, one had to get a tree (or, may be, lattice) with a root in the given paper. Since the task was not accurately formulated, most of us chose just one paper and made a tree...

the house is a little quieter....

okay A LOT quieter, now that my biggest kiddo is off at camp for the week.... it's amazing how easy it gets w/ a baby when the big sister is away. warren and i feel like we are on vacation! we went on a long walk, visited w/ friends and drank wine, cooked a yummy dinner, watched a strange movie, cleaned the house (and it stayed that way), slept in a little...and now i can actually sit at the computer...

ICVSS 2010: lectures and posters

I returned from my eurotrip yesterday and now I am ready to start a series of posts about International Computer Vision Summer School (ICVSS 2010). Generally, I enjoyed the school. That week gave me (I hope) a lot of new knowledge and new friends.The scientific programme of the school included lectures, tutorials, a student poster session and a reading group. Lectures occupied most of official programme...

Parkour Visions Summit and Talk

On August 13-15th, my friends Rafe Kelley and Tyson Cecka are hosting a parkour summit at their Seattle gym Parkour Visions. For those of you not familiar with the sport, here's a description from the Parkour Visions site:"The essence of Parkour can be stated simply: it is the art of overcoming obstacles as swiftly and efficiently as possible using only your body. The fundamentals include running,...

The google gossip trade

Photo by SklathillThe NYT has a fantastic article in this weekend's magazine on something I have been stamping my feet about for years. It is about how the permanence of our digital lives (a lack of ephemerality) is significantly affecting our physical day-to-day lives, often in adverse ways.  (I unfortunately don't have the time to summarize the article - please go read it, it's very well written.)Our...

ILMU ALAM: Soal kuis bab 4 dan 5

Belajar Komputer | ILMU ALAM: Soal kuis bab 4 dan 5: "download disini: http://www.scribd.com/full/34581145?access_key=key-2h5pj0yw736hd4rcbu...

good morning sunshine....

if only my house looked this put together and beautiful when i woke up!! *images courtesy of this is glamorous, little emma english home, unknown...

Disconnected connectedness

NPR had a nice interview yesterday with the author of Hamlet's BlackBerry, William Powers. In the interview, Powers talks about how several information upgrades in recent history (Roman cities and papyrus, the printing press, and now the internet), and how, always, society struggles to cope.Photo by YlvaSAcademics are of course no exception to feeling overloaded. I am presently at a...

Real Food XI: Sourdough Buckwheat Crepes

Buckwheat was domesticated in Southeast Asia roughly 6,000 years ago. Due to its unusual tolerance of cool growing conditions, poor soils and high altitudes, it spread throughout the Northern latitudes of Eurasia, becoming the staple crop in many regions. It's used to a lesser extent in countries closer to the equator. It was also a staple in the Northeastern US until it was supplanted by wheat...

simple things....

i am the first to admit that i get caught up in my daily routine....especially with a newborn and a 3 yr old. last night around 10:00, warren and i just sat and talked- no tv, no computer, no cell phones, no kids....it was wonderful. it's amazing how simple things can be so fulfilling...i highly recommend trying it :)*images courtesy of bippity boppity boo, ruffled, oak management, tilly & ...

Minger Responds to Campbell

Hot off the presses: Dr. Colin Campbell's response to Denise Minger's China Study posts, and Minger's retort:A Challenge and Response to the China StudyThe China Study: My Response to CampbellThis is required reading for anyone who wants to evaluate Dr. Campbell's claims about the China Study data. Denise points out that Dr. Campbell's claims rest mostly on uncorrected associations, which is exactly what he was accusing Minger, Chris Masterjohn...

TGIF

i thought these images were a perfect way to start the weekend....the last image is my favorite though...he will be one month tomorrow and i couldn't love him more if i tried. although, i started thinking if he could talk, would he say "seriously mom...why did you have to throw me in with such a girly set of photos..." good thing he can't talk :)*images courtesy of sanity fair, this is glamorous,...

jadeite...

i adore jadeite....the color totally has me smitten. my mom got me started on it. her collection is a lot better then mine. i only have a couple of pieces but i try to use them as often as possible b/c i think it makes my food taste better :)*images courtesy of only a paper moon, cat faery shari, james merr...

Don't drunk dial the program chair

Part of being able to weather the storms of science is to recognize that generally the peer-review process is a meritocracy, but -- The world is an unfair place- Bad things happen to good people and vice-versaPhoto by jaycoxfilmSometimes you will have reviewers who miss the point. Sometimes people in positions of power over some aspect of your career (PCs, editors, funding bodies) will make large-scale...

sometimes i find myself wishing i could see the future for one split second....*images courtesy of unknown, the neotraditionalist, living ...

The elephant in the room

Both GMP and Pika have posts about being frequently barraged about "where they're from" due to having accents not frequently heard in the places they live. Both posts discuss how to deflect conversations when the questioners seem to lose all sense of social graces and just start acting dumb.Image by movimenteAs a native English speaker I fortunately haven't encountered this problem,...

Midnight Sun

So, I thought I sucked at running trail races.... well you should see me in a kayak race.The Yukon River Quest is a 740 km canoe and kayak race from Whitehorse to Dawson City in the Yukon.Bill Nightingale and I joined on a whim last October not really knowing what we were getting ourselves into.Karen asked if I looked at the videos on You Tube about Five Finger and Rink rapids along the course, or...

Lab Leadership

Matt Welsh has a nice post today, "the subtle art of managing a research group". I liked this quote a lot:"..the book on motivating people gets into the various ways of getting your "employees" (a.k.a. students) to be productive, and talks all about the pros and cons of the carrot versus the stick. Synopsis: If you can get inside the head of an unmotivated student and figure out...