It's pretty useful that the webapps that distract me the most have the heaviest/slowest JS, so before things finish loading I've realised I'm procrastinating and closed the tab.
Posts between 2016/02 and 2016/03 (40 out of 40)
- 2 cups cashews
- 3/4 cup lemon juice (freshly squeezed, 2.5 lemons)
- 1/4 cup coconut oil (melted, I've tried blending solid coconut oil before and it does not blend)
- drizzle maple syrup
- spash of almond milk
- 2 handfuls blueberries
- 2 tablespoons applesauce
- 1 tablespoon coconut oil
+ https://sites.umiacs.umd.edu/elm/2016/02/01/mistakes-reviewers-make/
Amy added 'Mistakes Reviewers Make | Niklas Elmqvist, Ph.D.' to Bookmarks
Amy added http://inkdroid.org/ to https://rhiaro.co.uk/bookmarks/
🗁Added 2 photos to album Homemade food.
Cashew cheesecake with blueberry base
Vegan cheesecake
This month is the month I really start to concentrate on my thesis, so today I made cheesecakes!
All quantities thoroughly approximate, and blended on high speed:
Augmented with a fruity layer:
In the freezer for a couple of hours, and they turned out pretty well. They are amazingly creamy and tangy. The real question is, why haven't I given up computers to make desserts full time?
+ http://research-srv.microsoft.com/pubs/161585/QuestToReplacePasswords.pdf
Amy added http://research-srv.microsoft.com/pubs/161585/QuestToReplacePasswords.pdf to https://rhiaro.co.uk/bookmarks/
The W3C kettle is one of the more high tech ones I've encountered, so naturally the UX isn't great and I have to re-learn how to boil water every time.
Apparently writing JS without semicolons is the done thing now, so today I'm occupying some weird world between PHP and Python and I'm even less sure what's going on than usual.
+ http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0147913
Amy added 'PLOS ONE: Peer Review Quality and Transparency of the Peer-Review Process in Open Access and Subscription Journals' to Bookmarks
Is there some legal requirement for disclaimer and liability stuff in terms of service to be in all caps? Every site has this, but only for this section.
+ http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2014/10/21/updated-80-things-publishers-do-2014-edition/
Amy added 'UPDATED u2014 82 Things Publishers Do (2014 Edition) | The Scholarly Kitchen' to Bookmarks
+ http://www.palgrave-journals.com/palgraveopen/index.html#close
Amy added 'Palgrave Open | Palgrave Macmillan Journals' to Bookmarks
Our article on building tooling to publish and consume (and own) your LinkedResearch, plus LDOW2016 reviews, up at csarven.ca/dokieli
Forget gravatar, ResearchGate just straight up Google image searches your name so you don't have to make the effort to upload an avatar on registration o.O
Okay I finally made a Zooniverse account and I think classifying whale tails is my new calling.
Amy added 'Sci-Hub: removing barriers in the way of science' to Bookmarks
+ http://www.allfreecrochet.com/Cardigans-and-Wrap-Sweaters/Mermaid-Filigree-Cardigan-from-Red-Heart
Amy added http://www.allfreecrochet.com/Cardigans-and-Wrap-Sweaters/Mermaid-Filigree-Cardigan-from-Red-Heart to https://rhiaro.co.uk/bookmarks/
Part of me wants to move my site to github so commits count towards a streak etc, and that's where pretty much everything else I'm working on regularly is, but really I should keep it on bitbucket in the name of decentralisation, and manage my own 'streak' and contributions list on my site, aggregating commits from both places.
+ https://medium.com/@randileeharper/putting-out-the-twitter-trashfire-3ac6cb1af3e#.xobo0zujk
Amy added https://medium.com/@randileeharper/putting-out-the-twitter-trashfire-3ac6cb1af3e#.xobo0zujk to https://rhiaro.co.uk/bookmarks/
🗁Added 3 photos to album Homemade food.
Cashew cheesecake with raspberry
+ http://rossmounce.co.uk/2013/01/06/pdf-metadata-using-exiftool/
Amy added 'PDF metadata: different tool, same story - Ross Mounce' to Bookmarks
Boston weather right now.. Snow, hail.. bubbles? Yep, bubbles coming from the sky.
Amy added 'Home' to Bookmarks
Amy added 'Open Context: Web-based research data publishing' to Bookmarks
I'm in Edinburgh for 1.5 days next week. Top of my list are: Hoose, Rigatoni's, chips. I'm in London for 1.5 days next week. Top of my list are: Nando's, chips, Nando's, chips. Gonna be a healthy time.
In reply to: https://rhiaro.co.uk/2016/02/im-edinburgh-15
I MISS CHIPS
Sometimes what people are talking about at lunch is what I happened to read about from twitter that morning and then I can feel well informed and a useful member of the conversation.
In reply to: http://csarven.ca/dokieli#i-20160217184234
Awesome review, thanks! Really helpful points. And you're right, I hate the colours, fonts and styles of csarven's website too :p
+ http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html
Amy added 'The effect of open access and downloads ('hits') on citation impact: a bibliography of studies' to Bookmarks
+ http://www.eigenfactor.org/openaccess/fullfree.php
Amy added 'Eigenfactor: Index of Open Access Author Fees' to Bookmarks
+ https://www.datacite.org/node
Amy added 'DataCite | Helping you to find, access and reuse data' to Bookmarks
+ http://digitheadslabnotebook.blogspot.ch/2014/01/guide-to-open-science.html
Amy added 'Digithead's Lab Notebook: Guide to Open Science' to Bookmarks
+ http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-to-think-about-bots
Amy added http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-to-think-about-bots to https://rhiaro.co.uk/bookmarks/
+ http://hiberlink.org/Insight.htm
Amy added 'Reference rot in scholarly statement: threat and remedy' to Bookmarks
Amy added 'Zotero | Home' to Bookmarks
Welcome to London Waterloo, none of the Tube ticket machines are taking cards and 2/3 ATMs are out of service. At rush hour. Guess I'll just stay a while.
Second passport obtained
I successfully obtained a second UK passport today with suspiciously little difficulty, but this is doubtless due to helpful advice I got from Phil and this blog beforehand. There is no official information about how to do this online, and only a little around blogs and forums, so I'm contributing my experience to the pile.
Due to travel and living outside of the UK, there was no time to wait for the postal turnaround and only a single day I could be in London in person before I needed it, so I had to go for the Premium service. This, plus an extra large size passport, cost £139. I made my interview appointment and paid online, just over two weeks in advance.
I called the passport adviceline to check a foreign employer was eligible to sign the supporting letter, as I'd read on a forum that they wouldn't be, but that was no problem. I asked someone with a sufficiently impressive sounding job title in my research group at MIT to sign a letter saying I need an additional passport to make frequent work-related travel possible (which is true). Officially the letter is required to be signed by a 'senior manager', which academia doesn't really have obvious job titles for, and I didn't think a Professor would cut it as far as the Passport Office is concerned. Fortunately there are a few people who are my superiors, if not directly above me in the chain (I don't know what the org chart looks like tbh) who have 'Director' in their title. That worked.
As Phil points out in his post, the letter has to state that frequent travel either hinders access to send-away-for visas, or involves countries who deny entry if you've previously visited certain other countries; they don't give them out for one-offs. And the letter has to have a 'wet' signature, not be a printout or photocopy. And has to be on headed paper. I had it printed on extra thick fancy paper for good measure.
I also had to have one of my passport photos countersigned by a professional who had known me for 2 years, who also had to fill in section 10 of the application form. This is the same as for first time passports, but not renewals. Some forum posts about this suggested you should follow the renewals process for a second passport, but this is where it varied. My PhD supervisor did this.
Minor last minute panic around realising I was missing my supervisor's passport number and my parents' passport issue dates the night before, but they all replied to me in time.
I showed up at the passport office in Victoria just after 0900 for a 0915 appointment. You can take anything you want in, but it goes through a security scanner like at an airport (in contrast to the US embassy where I got my visa, which didn't allow laptops). I was issued issued a queue ticket which said 'outstanding: £128' on it which worried me slightly. Less than a 10 minute wait before my 'interview'. The first thing I said was that I was applying for a 2nd passport for business travel, not a renewal (which is what I'd selected when I booked the interview online). The interviewer asked me about how I'd booked and paid, because he could see I'd paid online but some other system hadn't registered it (hence the 'outstanding' on my ticket). He was kind enough not to charge me again. He ran his finger over the signature on the letter to check it was 'wet', read through my application form and filled in section 1 for me (I left it blank because there is no option for '2nd passport'); I didn't see what he put, but at the end he showed me that he'd written 'DO NOT CANCEL ORIGINAL' somewhere. He flipped through my passport and asked me to show him the stamp for the country that would be preventing me from getting into a different country. I was pleased my passport is already packed full of stamps and visas, leaving him in no doubt of my 'frequent traveller' status. I was not asked for proof of travel, but my letter contained the start and end dates of my next trip.
Aaand... that was it.
I went back to the collection point 4 hours and 20 minutes later (after a fancy expensive breakfast at Le Pain Quotidien around the corner, who I know to count on for power and wifi and whose menu has exploded with vegan options since I was last here, and a jaunt to the British Library) with the receipt, and they handed my shiny new 48 page one over!
You can get a free coffee from Pret at Gatwick Airport by brandishing your phone and saying you 'signed up for the free coffee thing'
Perpetual optimist Nicola acknowledges that paper is static and non-interactive, except if you 'print off 100000 pages and flip it like this to make it animate'
"This 'eventually' is now" - more supreme wisdom from Nicola