the thing with Gawker comments right now
So after GifGate Gawker has re-instituted greyed out comments across Gawker Media, and instituted a system where you have to be followed by one of the blogs themselves for your comments to appear in black automatically. Otherwise, your comments have to be rescued by members of the Gawker media staff or (I…
All emotions tonight
So intense.
Boy, I wonder why college is so expensive
Summer break has arrived at Purdue University, where I am pursuing my doctorate. This summer, I am concentrating on studying for my comprehensive exams and sending out articles for publication, so my schedule is flexible. I've decided to use some of this unstructured time to exercise more often, by taking advantage of…
Freddie's Feel Catalog, Fifth Dispatch
It's hot, but not humid. The sun is out. People of both sexes are baring skin. My winter white is turning into a spring only-slightly-less-white. I've had good fights online and good sex AFK recently. I got an email from General Gandhi that made me really happy. I still can't please everybody. Mostly I can't please…
Freddie's Feels Catalog, Missive Four
I fucking feel awesome today. Lucky, happy, so thrilled to be alive. My research has been going so well the last few days. The last couple semesters I've tried to do these big quant projects and the findings have just been mush, too much construct-irrelevant variance, too many hiccups with the analysis, too small of a…
Freddie's Feels Catalog, Missive Three
Today I was asked if I wanted to participate in a neat little experiment by playing a Youtube on my phone that contained one track from a like 12-track song, along with a bunch of other people. But we were playing them in a room next to the computer lab, and because we didn't have enough smartphones we had to use a…
Freddie's Feel Catalog, Missive Two
Today I was struggling with a project that I'm doing for school. I've been doing a lot of stuff with computational linguistics, particularly with measures of lexical density. I am using a very full-featured program to mine a database of standardized test essays for the displayed diversity in their vocabulary, then…
Freddie's Feel Catalog, Missive One
Last week, some friends were talking about going to go see a movie on Facebook, and I said I wanted to go to see it too, but then they made plans and went without including me. That was a sad feel.


