I like what I do and I find it engaging, so I spend a fair amount of my time pondering issues related to complex pattern analysis, dimensionality reduction in data analysis, the future of computing and in general how to deal with the shit load of information we are all accumulating.
I am fascinated by my husbands talents and share/take inspiration and ideas with/from him. As shocking as it may be, to some extent music and pattern analysis are not really that different. Sometimes, in moments of despair, I think that my work is much more subjective than his! Regardless, check his musings out they're, in the words of extended family, flllllantastic!
I'd like to meet:
--myself as an old man to hear my advice. not that i would probably take it...
--someone who is really stinkin rich that can truly convince me money doesn't matter.
--the maker of my really super duper comfy shoes to tell him what a great job he did and to keep up the good work.
I also enjoy talking to people who can maintain eye contact, and generally have an interesting conversation about nothing in particular. I do have a hard time talking with people who don't enjoy a level of abstraction, don't get sarcasm (not the malicious kind, because I don't get that either) or are more into scoring points than conversing.
Television:
Simpsons. sometimes the humor is really on point!
Anything BBC. because it IS a little bRit different. And a- lot-a-bit better.
Then there's the usual suspects: TLC, discorver, history, foodnetwork...I wish I could just select the channels we watch
Books:
I haven't read any good fiction lately because whenever I start one I feel like I'm wasting time and should be reading something more productive. Is that a disease?? Well, regardless its annoying.
Heroes:
mom and dad. and lots of other people in small ways. Cathcing those moments when people think no one is looking, or noone could possible know about some kind, selfless deed they are doing.
