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Happy Birthday, U.S.A.
Today is generally reckoned as the 228th birthday of the United States of America. Some good wishes are therefore in order.
Kitsch memorials
With the death of Ronald Reagan, there were the inevitable “what is his place in history?” gabfests as well as proposals to put his name or face on everything from the $20 bill to Mount Rushmore. What was missing in the latter was a sense of perspective about memorial acts and sites as public events […]
Academic blogging
I’ve discovered an interesting comment about this blog (and an implication about blogging) at Ralph Luker’s March 17, 2004, Cliopatria group blog entry: “Dorn seems to post to his blog primarily to let his dean and his in-laws know what’s going on. (I do my dean and in-law communicating separately and a little more privately.)” […]
Functional data analysis
Every once in a while, I choose some form of “brain candy” to read for work—something that’s out of my field and that’s just fun in some sense, because there’s no pressure other than the challenge of reading something new. Because of something an editor suggested to me, I decided to see what functional data […]
No comments (administrivia)
By Sherman Dorn on July 7, 2004
Since there’s only been one legitimate comment on about 120 postings, and a lot of my traffic is from spammers attempting to comment (but generally hidden), I’ve removed the comment capacity from these posts. It’s a matter of practicality.
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