Monthly Archives: March 2009

This weekend was my grandfather’s birthday, and to celebrate I drove down with them to Westport, where my parents live, and we had a family dinner at a fancy Italian restaurant. For a present, we bought him an Amazon Kindle … Continue reading →

The New York Times has an article about neurological observations associated with depression. This article makes me very happy. You might reasonably ask “Ben, why are you so happy that cortical thinning, and particularly left-hemisphere cortical thinning, is somewhat correlated … Continue reading →

The equinox just passed. What’s remarkable to me about the equinox is not the balance of day and night, though that is the technical definition. The equinox is also the time of year when the amount of daylight is changing … Continue reading →

When observing court cases, I’ve often been irritated by the doctrine of judicial precedent. This doctrine, centuries old and inherited from the British, says that once a court has decided a case in a particular way, all future courts faced … Continue reading →

Last night was the ICCA Northeast Region Semifinals at MIT, and I went to support the Chorallaries with a bunch of other alumni. The groups were all really very good, and many of them were distressingly good. First place went … Continue reading →

VoiceLab’s internal solo auditions are a bit different from what I’m used to. One interesting difference is that for each soloist, VoiceLab also selects an understudy. At rehearsal this Wednesday, I got the understudy part for John Legend’s “Save Room”. … Continue reading →

A friend at Simmons College advised me of an interesting talk there by Charles F. Dunbar, who has been the Ambassador to a bunch of countries and has now sort of retired into a professorship at BU. He’s an expert … Continue reading →

Apart from the ill-fated bicycle adventure, I spent the entire weekend sitting in my apartment scribbling equations and writing code. I’ve been bothering the developers of CELT to tell me everything they know, and one of things I learned about … Continue reading →

I left my laptop power cable at work yesterday, and since the weather today was so nice, I thought it seemed an opportune moment for a shakedown run of my new bicycle. I’m glad I didn’t pick a longer trip … Continue reading →

I’ve lived in Boston since 2002, but I don’t think I’d ever been to Northeastern University until today. There was a guest lecture on image registration, and I went with another researcher from my department. Walking, from my office, it … Continue reading →