{"id":6953,"date":"2008-05-25T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-25T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/25\/challunge\/"},"modified":"2008-05-25T23:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-25T23:30:00","slug":"challunge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/25\/challunge\/","title":{"rendered":"Challunge!"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">min<\/span><\/span><p align=\"center\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FaBTaok3qG0&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Wrapped up my first ever RSA late this afternoon with a role on O.09 on textual machinery and the interrelationship of agency and automation.  Good company, smart papers, and an alert, question-raising audience: what more can you ask for? My list of (entirely self-inflicted) concerns is short, but I left with the sense that I fumbled through parts of the Q&#038;A.  Nothing horribly embarrassing.  Just rambly-schmambly, swing-and-miss kinds of half-answers. There was a lot of rich conversation during the Q&#038;A, but, frankly, I would like to have do-over tokens for some of it. Another do-over: while I was giving my paper, I was so distracted by the fact of not having water at hand that I was focused on the moisture levels in my throat almost to the total neglect of what I was saying.<\/p>\n<p>Once rested, maybe I can push on through a couple of blog entries that will make up for some of my loafing through it today: on the long tail of citation freq., on automation\/agency rel. to colloids and compounds, on letting concepts get away from us (or being understood <em>as if<\/em>). 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