http://www.garyfeng.com/wordpress 如 影 随 行 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:08:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tags: I was working at home in my office upstairs when Ethan and Jessie came home from school. Ethan soon figured that he’d left his bookbag in the car and he told Jessie:     I am gonna ask daddy to get my bag. Jessie:       Why don’t you go get the bag and ... http://www.garyfeng.com/wordpress/2010/01/21/siblings/ Tags: Never mind what Health News 4 is promoting (or how I got there). I am just fascinated by how honest their small prints are — they tell you that the story, pictures, and comments are (possibly) fake. What about the icons at the top of their page?    It is important to note that ... http://www.garyfeng.com/wordpress/2009/11/15/honestly-fake/ Tags:   Google Lab’s newest toy, Script Converter, looks pretty interesting, although I have no idea how to read the "Indian scripts" in the output.  http://www.garyfeng.com/wordpress/2009/11/06/googles-script-converter/ Tags:Education Paperville Statstics Teaching NAEP Studies - State Mapping Mapping State Proficiency Standards Onto NAEP Scales: 2005-2007 October 2009 Authors: Victor Bandeira de Mello, Charles Blankenship, Don McLaughlin  Download the complete report in a PDF file for viewing and printing. (2985K PDF) Executive Summary Since 2003, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) ... http://www.garyfeng.com/wordpress/2009/10/31/mapping-state-reading-standards-to-a-common-metric/ Tags:Paperville psychology Research Teaching Behavioral and Brian Sciences upcoming article:    Target Article: "The Weirdest People in the World?"Authors: Joseph Henrich, Steven J. Heine and Ara Norenzayan Deadline for proposals: November 19, 2009 Abstract (short):  Broad claims about human psychology and behavior based on narrow samples from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic ... http://www.garyfeng.com/wordpress/2009/10/30/the-weirdest-people-in-the-world/ Tags:Education psychology Teaching NY Times reports that Disney, the current parent of Baby Einstein, acknowledges the uselessness of the video series. For years I have been using this as an example of commercialization of child development in my developmental psych course. I had come to accept it as a fact of ... http://www.garyfeng.com/wordpress/2009/10/24/no-einstein-in-your-crib-get-a-refund-nytimescom/ Tags: Last Friday, Ethan, 6, weighed himself in the YMCA locker room and announced excitedly "I am 47lb!" "I am 147lb," I said. "Some pumpkins are 2000lbs, you know", he snapped back. http://www.garyfeng.com/wordpress/2009/10/21/ethan-on-pumpkins-and-me/ Tags:psy117 Statstics Teaching NY Times published an article online on Sept 10 (according to the website, a version of this article appeared in print on September 11, 2009, on page A15 of the New York edition) titled Heckler’s District Mostly Supports the Outburst, in which the reporters cited 5 interviewees in support of Joe Wilson’s ... http://www.garyfeng.com/wordpress/2009/09/15/support-or-mostly-support/ Tags:Education Teaching Alliance for Childhood‘s report Crisis in the Kindergarten: Why Children Need to Play in School does not seem to provide data on 2 critical questions: (a) how have the American kindergartens changed, and (b) why kindergarten? It was a bit of a let down, after the introduction claimed that US kindergartens have gone through drammatic changes, to not being able to ... http://www.garyfeng.com/wordpress/2009/09/14/kindergartens-in-crisis-because-the-lack-of-play/ Tags:Linguistics Being a non-native speaker of English, I wonder about the name of BBC’s World Have Your Say – why "have"? Is "world" plural? Or is this imperative? "World has your say" clearly sounds bad, but can anybody tell me why? http://www.garyfeng.com/wordpress/2009/09/12/bbc-world-have-your-say/ Tags:Computing I’ve been using Adobe Lightroom to manage/edit raw photo files from my Nikon D80. With my pictures spreat to a number of computers, I have recently adopted a recommended strategy to consolidate Lightroom catelogs to an external hard drive so that I can open the pictures on any computer. After ... http://www.garyfeng.com/wordpress/2009/09/09/lightroom-catelog-on-an-external-drive/ Tags:Computing google Research Google Gears and Notebook disabled by Firefox 3.5, along with many useful extensions such as Book Burro and the LibX. Here’s a quick and dirty way to revive some of them, via the Nightly Tester Tools extension After installing the NTT, go to add-ons, and click the ... http://www.garyfeng.com/wordpress/2009/07/06/reviving-google-notebook-and-bookburro-extensions-on-firefox-35/ Tags: Ethan, my 5 year brother, was asked to fetch the newspaper this morning.  "Oh, brother!" he cried. "You don’t have a brother,"I teased. "Yes I do, I am a brother!" he said matter of factedly.     – guest post by Jessie  http://www.garyfeng.com/wordpress/2009/06/16/the-evolution-of-the-oh-brother-joke/ Tags: Like many smart kids, Ethan, 4 at the time, sometimes had to be corrected for grammar. "hey, Ethan, do you say he do or he does?" I hinted. "He do what he does." he said matter-of-factedly. http://www.garyfeng.com/wordpress/2009/06/16/he-do-what-he-does/ Tags: Picking among his favorite pants and shorts this morning, Ethan, 5, proclaimed "I like life because it is interesting. " http://www.garyfeng.com/wordpress/2009/06/16/more-ethan-quote/ Tags: Ethan will be 6 in less than a month, and boy, hasn’t he grown intellectually and spiritually.   Yesterday was the last day of school and he came home early. By early afternoon I found him lying on the floor, bored. Then he turn to me and said: "Dad, you know, you can’t really do nothing. ... http://www.garyfeng.com/wordpress/2009/06/16/3907/ Tags:Research Relaying the Duke Library Hacks blog post on Publish or Perish Joining this group is Publish or Perish, with a slightly different take on this process.  Publish or Perish uses data from Google Scholar, but it automatically does analysis on the citation patterns for specific authors.  After searching for an author ... http://www.garyfeng.com/wordpress/2009/06/03/publish-or-perish/ Tags:Computing Research You do your normal lit search, and AuthorMapper shows where the authors are on google map.  That’s one of the things on my procrastination to-do list. They did a very good job, including multi-resolution icon representations that, for example, shows an icon for the whole North East US ... http://www.garyfeng.com/wordpress/2009/05/26/authormapper-almost-useful/ Tags:Statstics Teaching Data.gov can be handy in the stat course I will be teaching in the Fall.     http://www.garyfeng.com/wordpress/2009/05/23/datagov/ Tags: Seriously, I found this word — unincluded — in a Ph. D. dissertation draft. … and five 5-year-olds, who were unincluded due to reading ability.  It was not a joke, at least I wouldn’t find it funny in the middle of the Method section. And no, the author is a native ... http://www.garyfeng.com/wordpress/2009/05/15/unincluded-really/