Organizing old Beren Academy Archives

Last year I was given a task to organize Beren's board meetings, chronologically. Naturally, I put it off until nearly the end. Yesterday I sat down and finished it all up, whilst listening to Stravinsky's Petrouchka, jazz with Armstrong, and Holst's "The Planets" and the Enigma Variations of Elgar. Here's a picture of the floor at the height of revelry:

Many binders

Ned Rorem and Edgar Meyer performed by Emerson String Quartet

Rorem - String Quartet No. 4.
Edgar Meyer - Quintet

320 kbps mp3.

Calculus 1 Textbook off of Casa

Math 1431, Cal 1, (UH) has its textbook online. Until now, it was accessible as an open link. Now, however, you have to log in to CASA, to see it. But what if CASA is overloaded? You can't see your book.
Solution: Use DownThemAll, an addon in FF, to download all the links in the book, but filter it to take just the pdfs. Granted, the site-structure isn't preserved, but at least you have the book offline, to examine at your leisure. Here is a link to the book with all the pdfs in order of lesson, including material, exercises, and review worksheets.Calculus Textbook
Here is the tarball of the same package. Calculus Textbook.tar.gz

Scifi.com archive

A short while ago, I searched for free science fiction online, and stumbled across a great blog post detailing the various options available - books, short stories, and audio books, here. One of the sites it listed was this website, which was discontinued in June of 2007. Because I fear it may be taken down some day, I mirrored it, and will be making it available at shmsoft.com/yosef, shortly. It will be in the form of a folder with 182 MB of files that together can be browsed in the same structure as the website. If you dislike the dark background that may appear, use Firebug to inspect the element and delete the color (denoted by a #) in the first line of the body.

At work

Here at work, I am learning NLTK, a natural language processing toolkit that uses Python. Though setting it up is a real big hassle, in Windows and Linux, I'm slowly progressing. Here is a model of the uses of the words "American" vs. "citizen" in all the inaugural addresses up through 2005. I wonder who it was who used "citizen" so much in 1841 - Andrew Jackson maybe?

America vs. Citizen