Woo! I love my classes. As part of the first reading assignment for Cognitive Psychology, I read about aspects of measuring brain performance on certain tasks. It touched on various performance aspects for when the brain does math. This actually is in-line with a mental exercise I did, vaguely philosophic, a few months back, attempting to determine, through introspection, various algorithms and shortcuts I use to do basic math. Surprisingly, once you start to chew on it, you can write pages (and I did). It's really neat to see some detailed timing information on the same topic. Actually, although it's rather early at this point, I might decide to make that the focus of my PhD and later life rather than the neural basis of memory. You know you're in the right field when a lot of what you're reading is mental candy, and still stuff you could imagine laying out in a field somewhere with paper, jotting things down. Paradise, I tell you! The Philosophy class looks really great too.. it's first reading assignment went into a lot of detail on how pre-copernican astronomy worked. There was a lot more rigor in it than I thought, and it's neat to learn about the topic.

I realize that I forgot to actually copy my new schedule to my live site. If you're lazy and curious, here's the link again.

Tonight I'm going to go to the astronomy club's gathering to see mars through their telescopes. Because of my financial disasters, I didn't get a telescope for the event, but I will, someday. The club probably has higher-end stuff than I'm likely to get anyhow. And, to appeal to the silly side in me, I might join the KGB. It's like the Urban Chaos League that I had, kind of, back in Cowtown. However, it has more fun.

Oh, yes, my blog is now, if you go to blog.dachte.org, served by mod_perl by default. Please update your bookmarks. Please also report any problems you see. Don't tell me that comments don't work, that not everything that should have a topic does, etc. I want to hear if the existing, visible functionality does not work.

Anyhow, there's some cool parties coming up, and although I'm not a party person, I look forward to them.

I'm slowly rewriting PSMail. I'm not eating my own dog food yet, to use the expression, and perhaps won't be for awhile. Oh well. Off to class.