Nerd bling

You know those flash drives that come with their own necklaces? Pure nerd bling.

On that subject--as my last post indicated, I have been working on a rather large statistical problem for the last couple of days. I finally reached a point where it appeared that I could either spend a ridiculous amount of time on my own trying to locate the code for certain statistical procedures, or I could seek out expert help.

Fortunately, ASU has this incredible resource called the Statistics Helpline which students can call if they think they are about to commit a statistic and need help. It helps employ some of the stats graduate students in the Statistics Department. Those guys are just amazing. I called them yesterday to ask for advice and set up an appointment for this morning. A professor and I showed up (he's the one I'm helping with the data analysis) and explained the problem, and after about fifteen minutes of hunting around for the proper code, this stats grad student had everything up and running. To me, nothing is quite as exciting as putting together a couple of lines of code that will then churn out massive quantities of data. I can suddenly see just how powerful this statistics program is. And I think it was a good little puzzle for the stats grad (hey, whatever I can do to keep other grads employed!).

I am such a nerd (yay nerds!). Or is that a geek (hooray geeks, for good measure.)?

The day is mine.

I still hate Cox

You know, the internet and cable "provider," if you can call it that. Our cable and internet are out until Friday, so I cannot while away the hours on the internet at home for a while. Therefore, if you desperately need to get ahold of me, call or write. Ha. Like that's gonna happen.

Meanwhile, I'll be oot and aboot, dogsitting for a friend, housesitting for another friend, and carsitting for a housemate. Does anybody have a chair that I could chairsit? Or maybe some plants. That would round out the list nicely.

In other news, both my brother and sister are going to exotic tropical locations this summer. No fair! My bro's headed to Jamaica, man, and sytharin is going to Costa Rica, though she knows no Spanish. No fair! Maybe that means I should go to France and Italy just to taunt her. THEN we shall see who will be doing the catsitting!