I work in an open-plan office. Sadly, this requires the wearing of pants at all times.

I feel all risque if I take my shoes off while at work.

I think I would rather be topless than pantless at work right now. Hygiene, plus I have a giant coffee stain right over my sternum.

I feel all risque if I take my shoes off while at work.

I'd feel bad. My feet have the STANK. It's my dad's fault; I got the stankfoot from him.

I'd suggest Hil's email.

Heh. Actually, a mathematician might just complicate things. Different systems. It's an time vs degrees issues and while I know that it's correct instinctively, I can't articulate it very well. Also, IT'S BEEN THIS WAY 15 YEARS. If it was a problem, I think it would have been noticed before now. Not to mention things would be broken!

Philip K Dick-bot:

In an unparalleled technical collaboration, a team of artists, writers, engineers, literary scholars, and freethinkers are creating a lifelike, android portrait of one of America's well-known science-fiction writers Philip K Dick. The robot will be featured at WIRED magazine's NextFest, June 25-27, 2005.

The robot will portray Dick in both form and intellect through an artificial-intelligence-driven personality. The hardware will manipulate Hanson's proprietary lifelike skin material to affect extremely realistic expressions with very low power. Cameras in the eyes will allow the robot to perceive people's identity and behavior through advanced machine vision and biometric-identification software. The robot will track faces, perceive facial expressions, and recognize people from the crowd (family, friends, celebrities, etc).

The visual data will be fused with some of the best speech recognition software, advanced natural language processing, and speech synthesis in the world. All of this will run in sync with Hanson Robotics' highly expressive robot face to emulate a full human-conversational system.

The only reason I took my pants off was that a client spilled coffee on them, so I took them off in my closed office, someone took them to the washroon to rinse them off, and then I needed to let them dry.

See, even pantlessness can be dull if you explain it enough.

Single brain cells show selective response to specific celebrity photos.

Is a single cell in your brain devoted to Jennifer Aniston or Bill Clinton? Maybe so, according to new research.

A recent experiment showed that single neurons in people's brains react to the faces of specific people. Researchers see the findings as evidence that our brains use fewer cells to decode a given image than previously thought.

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Various pictures of Jennifer Aniston elicited a response in a single neuron inside the medial temporal lobe of another patient. Interestingly, images of her with her former husband Brad Pitt did not sway this cell, the authors of the paper report. Their findings appear this week in the journal Nature1.

Quian Quiroga also found that a lone neuron in one subject responded selectively to various pictures of the actress Halle Berry - as well as drawings of her and her name written down. Other cells were found to respond to images of characters in The Simpsons or members of The Beatles.

I saw somethng about this, but they used Halle Berry as an example.

Nobody has said anything about this COMM from last night:

Kathy A "Coffee On My Monitor" Jun 24, 2005 12:45:39 am PDT

but since we're on the subject... we were driving on Lake Shore Drive when a motorcycle passed us. A woman was riding on the back. She was wearing a short skirt and a thong, and her skirt was being blown up the whole time - she might as well not have been wearing it....