Girth charts and takeaway cheating
No deadlines missed so far (I finished my talk by AAS no problem) - this week I set a March 4th deadline to finish my first citizen science paper (well, its about a tool to enable citizens to do science on the web in teh future, but still). You heard it here first!
Here's some real progress though:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/phils-girth-2011
It's not easy to lose girth - or indeed to measure it! I'm going by the mean of measurements taken with a tape measure round my waist at the bellybutton, breathing in and out as far as I can. Interestingly my minimum-maximum girth range is 2 inches. This waist measurement cannot be the same as the one that is used when making trousers, as my biggest trousers are 34 and they fit no problem. Actually, they are getting a bit big :-)
Oh yeah, and I had 2 people round for dinner last Sunday - Jack and Hayley came over for Indian food and Scrabble. I got to the shops to buy ingredients at 5pm, only to find that the shops don't open that late in Kidlington. I think that feeding your guests takeaway still counts!
Here's some real progress though:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/phils-girth-2011
It's not easy to lose girth - or indeed to measure it! I'm going by the mean of measurements taken with a tape measure round my waist at the bellybutton, breathing in and out as far as I can. Interestingly my minimum-maximum girth range is 2 inches. This waist measurement cannot be the same as the one that is used when making trousers, as my biggest trousers are 34 and they fit no problem. Actually, they are getting a bit big :-)
Oh yeah, and I had 2 people round for dinner last Sunday - Jack and Hayley came over for Indian food and Scrabble. I got to the shops to buy ingredients at 5pm, only to find that the shops don't open that late in Kidlington. I think that feeding your guests takeaway still counts!
posted by Phil at 5:06 PM
7 Comments:
0.5" since New Year's Day!
Good job, Phil!
I beg to differ (on the takeaway front).
I cooked for 17. That counts as multiple dinners?
Keep plotting that girth
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No, that's one dinner, Jen. But my resolution is worded "have more people round to dinner than Jen" so I am now down 17-2. Or 17-0 if you think that dinners have to be home-cooked. Bugger.
I had Jools round for (homecooked) lunch today. That would be 18-0...and 22-0 by Weds. Come on, get moving!
What's the citizen-science subject?
Hogg: it's a java applet for people to load in images of gravitational lens candidates, and try and understand them using a manually-manipulated model. Interesting to think of other highly non-linear problems with multi-modal likelihood functions that would benefit from humans leaping from peak to peak...
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