LJ interface!!!

WTF happened to LJ's plain text interface? Where is my fixed-width editor?

being talked about on the public web

Thanks to Google, I just found out about people talking about me on IRC:

11:03:14 Xach, what was the url to the lj blog of some lisp spanish guy you posted yesterday?
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11:03:46 < Xach> xerox: there was a dutch guy named Gustavo Lacerda
11:04:02 < Xach> That name sounds a little Spanish
11:04:21 < Xach> It's like a German named Mario or Pascal or Sven, or an Englishman named Christophe
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11:04:22 < xerox> Xach, thank you - it does, sorry :-)
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11:05:47 < Xach> xerox: http://www.livejournal.com/users/gustavolacerda/207479.html is the url from yesterday

There's obviously a lot of confusion about my nationality. Also, xach's link to me seems to be gone.

These were the only things xerox said on this log. I'm now wondering who that is... as if I had time to waste.

sometimes things are right under your nose

I've been meaning to email Raul Valdes-Perez, to ask if there's anyone at CMU still doing work on scientific discovery, mathematical discovery, algorithm discovery, etc.

His research goal is similar to mine:

My research goal is to improve on the current state of scientific, engineering, and other professional reasoning by developing characterizable methods and interactive software that partially automate high-end tasks of discovery. In short: Better discovery of new, interesting knowledge.

This explains my interests in:
* formalization
* machine learning / scientific methodology (i.e. same thing).

His publications are all over the place too.

Anyway, I was just biking back from the cluster, when I noticed a big Vivisimo sign next to the RiteAid on Murray (corner with Forbes). I probably noticed this sign a handful of times before, but I only made the connection now. Vivisimo is his start-up, which explains why he is an "adjunct" professor.

But what does "adjunct professor" mean?