Jesse, if you want to be high-tech, see if your school has a site license for EndNote, which is bibliographic software (basically computerized searchable notecards that download records from databases and library catalogs automagically). If they do you can generally download it to your own computer for free.

There's a similar online product called RefWorks, which allows you a free 30-day trial before you have to fork over cash (not sure when your thesis is due!) [link]

ruiz, gomez, hernandez,

ruiz, gomez, hernandez,

Thanks. I just figured it out. Hernandez it is.

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Mathy types: What does is signify when it's a capital?

Steph, thanks for the link to the pi day cards! Mine are sent!

edit: I don't know what the above symbol is. Hope it's not a math flame of some sort.

Garcia.

I was actually thinking about spanish surnames the other day and how the ones I think of as common, aren't so much when the scale is larger.

edit: I don't know what the above symbol is. Hope it's not a math flame of some sort.

Omega?

If it's capital omega, it's used for electronics. (That's all I know.)

Ω ω? Omegas.

Usually I just take notes into a word doc and put the citation right there, but I'm thinking about a non-computer solution that would let me take my pile of books and papers on to my bed or someplace else, and end up with a much smaller stack of cards I could then carry around. We'll see if this ever actually happens. More likely: I write the draft at the last minute with the pile next to me and frantically sort through everything looking for that relevant bit.

And, of course, for the perfect Pi Day experience, everyone should try to eat pie at exactly one minute to 2:00pm this afternoon.

Jesse, we use RefWorks on campus and at work, and it is really wonderful. I love it. Definately see if your school has something like that available through the library.

Has anyone here used brainstorming software?