MY NAME IN SHINING LIGHTS4

Well, if you consider your monitor a bunch of tiny shining lights (pixels) rapidly flashing in front of your eyes. Honestly even if you don’t know my last name, I’m the only Matt on the page, so scroll down a little and look for it.

        This is what I was talking about a few weeks ago! The Language and Brain Laboratory is doing a lot of cool stuff and it seems like I’ll be the one putting together the programs for the experiments. Or helping to, at any rate, when I learn to use the tools. I’m hoping it’s pretty easy, it honestly can’t be that complicated to have a black screen show words with a specific timing and capture a couple keyboard input events. There’s a program for it, and I’m willing to bet it’s designed so you don’t need to be a hardcore programmer to put experiments together, so it ought to be pretty simple.

        Famous last words, I know.

At any rate, here’s what I need to do in the next little while. Unfortunately, most of these have no due dates, so it’s hard feeling really motivated about it.

• Monday: Linguistics assignment. I have one question left, and I need to print it, so I’m waiting to finish it when I actually have a printer.
• Thursday: 200 word story in french written in past tense, using the three main varieties of past tense.
• Write funny instructions for the GLaDOS head cake, then submit it to my Computers teacher so he can build a database of recipes for our assignment.
• Finish the Oracle of Objects python script for Jim Davies. Need a way to parse the results from that.
• Check out Presentation to help Masako Hirotani.
• Take notes on chapter 9 for Psychology.
• Read chapter 10 for Psychology.
• Read a couple chapters for Computers.
• Read ahead a bit for Philosophy.

        Except for the part with Dr. Hirotani, this is all stuff I’ve known I have to do for at least a week. I, uh, haven’t really done much work in the past week. If I HAD been working all of the time, I would probably be able to rent a game and play that in my spare time. It’s all going to get done, of course, I just used my free time tweaking my computer and reading things on the internet. Ah well. Some day I’ll run out of things to check out.