Another hint about where I’m headed…

The book should stop completely kicking my ass as of the end of this week. As of about Saturday, it should begin kicking my ass only moderately.

I’m a little tired of stringing together words, and I’m about to start doing some traveling for a few months, and I’d like to force myself to think more visually for a while. So this space may become mostly a series of photos. With luck, they’ll mostly speak for themselves. I could use the change. This is a small and silly blog anyway, so I can’t imagine why not.

Here’s one for starters, which can also serve as a hint to one of my probable stops:

I’m not certain, but I believe the above may involve some sort of dairy or milk-related product.

I’ve been asked to speak to a cognitive psychology class at UCLA on Monday morning, talking about memory skills and learning and whatnot.

At least, I think the class is in cognitive psychology. They told me, but — this is the beauty part — I forgot.

Maybe I’m not supposed to be there as an example… but as a specimen.

UPDATE: That was a blast.  My thanks to professor Steve, and to a great group of about 250 students, who made me feel welcome despite my complete lack of formal education in stuff they know lots about.

The Queens Zoo, actually.

What the article doesn’t mention is that this little guy actually is the reincarnation of the French emperor.  Only a little smaller.

Fortunately, New Jersey and Connecticut needn’t ready their own ungulates for battle.  Scaling down Napoleon’s ambitions to pudu size, his conquests probably won’t extent much further than, oh, Astoria.

Jackson Heights residents, however, should prepare for the Reign of Pudu.

Researchers have created a visual map of the romantic interactions at one US high school:

The labcoats figured there would be more connections, and especially a few more highly-connected, er, hubs — hey, there’s a new epithet — but nope.  There’s one guy with eight female connections, and one female with six, but those are statistical outliers.  And note that the isolated pair occurred 63 times, so it’s visually way under-represented here.

I doubt the diagram is complete, for obvious reasons.  But still.  Pretty cool.

More here.