Out at the old Ballgame

We caught the Binghamton Mets over the Memorial Day weekend. It was a beautiful day at the ballpark, although the results of the game were not so hot for the hometown boys. Extremely poor base running doomed the Mets to simply make it exciting at the end. Twice players got thrown out at home in early innings, as the players looked like they did not quite understand that running fast is often highly desirable in baseball when someone is trying to throw you out. Another guy was thrown out at first because he didn't even try to run to the base despite having hit a ball the third baseman couldn't field properly. At the end with two on and two outs, a B-Met lined out to center field that was just a hair from being an extra base hit. But the beer and peanuts were great. And we stayed for the fireworks afterward. The funny blue creature is "Ballwinkle". I know... don't ask.

Jones Park Vestal, NY

I made my way over to see my grad school friends, Art and Mike, over in Vestal, NY for the Memorial Day holiday. I'll run a few photos from activities. This is from the walk in a wooded park near (or in) Vestal. It is a great trail, one that it looks like not too many folks take. We ran across some mountain bikers but that was pretty much it. And we got in a great conversation about the merits of various psychological tests, not exactly a stem-winder for some folks, but it worked for us for a while.

Graduation Day at UDM

It was a really beautiful day for graduation. This is the kind of day graduations should be like. I hooded my first doctoral student, i.e., dissertation chairs put on the academic regalia of their advisees at the graduation ceremony. After the ceremonies in Calihan Hall, there was a reception in the Fisher Fountain area. The photos are of students and faculty at UDM.

UDM Research and Poster Fair 2008

Harold Greene, Ph.D. and I will present a poster of our research on the Rorschach and visual information processing at UDM in a couple of weeks. We are working on the article to submit to a journal. I think we have some nice findings from this first study. We have been able to correlate certain characteristics of the blots to different aspects of the eye movement process. The writing up of this is fairly tedious in some ways, because there are a lot of results being presented and a lot of details to keep track of. I hope to send off the paper by the end of the semester.

Bargains Don't Last Long

Well the book is now back up to about $40 bucks on Amazon, so perhaps this is a sign that the housing crisis is almost over or any other non sequitor I can think of. It started gliding back up a week or two ago. I've been too busy to do much, if any, blogging. The semester heads into the stretch run soon. I'll be submitting a grant proposal for more research and hope to fund a portable projector, so I can take it on the road and use it for running subjects. The storyboarding is underway for the next two video, and we hope to shoot sometime in May. I've created some mock blots to use as graphics for the video. This one was converted to B/W and then with a sepia overtone.

Does it get any better than this?

Tantalizing Times is now 80% off, selling for $14.19. Surely the masses will sweep in any minute to scoop up this great deal :>).

Going Back to the Drawing Board...

Creating a reliable shark repellent has been the dream of many. The latest device, called Shark Shield, is supposed to attach to surfboards and such in an effort to keep those pesky sharks away. Well, the test phase went well right up until a great white shark ate it.

h/t: Gizmodo