'Dirty Girls'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Curling???
Nilly, what is your dissertation about? The one-sentence version is fine, and it's okay to use technical terms because mr. flea wants to know. And he has a PhD - in SCIENCE! (Which is an American public-radio-based joke that you will not get, but funny, trust me.)
Curling???
That's SCOTTISH, it's not CRAP!
Oh look, the Greatest Canadian inventions:
Wonderbra [1964, Louise Poirier]
Ladies and Gentleman, we have a winner!
Oooo, I forgot about the Robertson Screw!
Get your minds out of the gutter!
What about the Robertson Screw?
Go Canada!
So, mom confirms all is well. I think I'll still make plans to go up there, though.
What about the Robertson Screw?
It's Canadian! (And awesome.)
Robertson Screw x-posty!
Timelies all!
Worldcon was fun, and involved a lot of walking. My hotel(which was where most of the filk events were) was about 6 blocks from the convention center. Also walked around the 16th street mall in Denver in order to get food. I came back with 4 more books and one fewer pair of jeans than I had when I got there. (The jeans were ancient, and had a small rip in the seat which became a large rip by the end of the con)
what is your dissertation about?
The title is: Dynamics of Data Traffic in Communication Networks.
If he heard of Linked - these are the sort of networks we're working with, Scale-Free networks. We're working on a model, no specific network (even though the internet is, of course, the most obvious network to talk about). The topological structure of these networks was extensively studied in the last decade, and I was trying to at least begin to see how that structure affects the flow of information on the network.
"Linked" is actually a popular science book, completely accessible even to people without any knowledge in SCIENCE (is it still funny if I have no idea if I'm using it right?), and quite a good one - my mom was thrilled when I gave her the Hebrew translation as a present, because she really wanted to have a better idea about what I study. My supervisor was the scientific editor of the Hebrew version, and some of the older students here are even mentioned in the book.
(Oh, and it's so sweet of mr. flea to be interested. Thanks.)
I have nothing to add on the topic of Canada.
[Edited because sometimes little punctuation marks are important.
Also, Allyson, backflung.]