grendelkhan (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} grendelkhan) wrote,@ 2007-02-26 02:42:00 |
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a spot of research.
It's nearing the end of the semester, and crunch time is rapidly approaching. I have two weeks in which to write a review-of-literature article, which will involve absorbing a stack of research papers on a level deeper than just reading the abstracts. Ugh. I'm not looking forward to that.
We went up early to the university, so that I could bum around the library. I spent nearly an hour finding and citing two little bits of information (diffs hither and yon)... but I was pretty pleased with what I got. I used a Type-of-Literature method of searching, first finding an index into a biographical dictionary of the arts (which was at least fifty volumes long!) and then extracting what I wanted from that dictionary. The information is there to be found; it's just not near the surface. Carin was especially forgiving of my "I'll be back in a bit; watch my laptop" excursion. I really didn't think it would take so long, but hey, I've extracted some knowledge that wasn't on the internet, and put it there. So ha.
We watched two eps of season-five Babylon 5 with Rick. Between eps, Carin offered to clean Rick's room, so we went on a walk and discussed the finer points of copyright law. (Did You Know that slavish reproductions of public-domain two-dimensional art are not copyrightable in the United States, but are copyrightable in the United Kingdom?) She did a bang-up job, and then we got to see the next episode, in which there's a scene with Sheridan and Delenn discussing a plot point over dinner. I hadn't noticed it the first time because nothing was made of it, but while they're talking, Sheridan takes the dishes up and starts washing them. How'd I miss that the first time around?
No comments today; didn't have time.
