We dragged him there, at least briefly ;)

(I got linked off your comment in chambana...I'm not creepy)
'tis cool, BTW. Figures that my my delurking post (well, reply) in chambana would be in reply to a ][gs sale ad. :g:

There's a pretty healthy UIUC community on Orkut, BTW.

Where again is Parkland, exactly?
I used to live in Champaign, in Glenshire (corner of Kirby and Staley), but I always went northeast for everything (campus, shopping, grocery, to get out of town, etc.). I think PC was up north before you get to all the commercial stuff (Meijer, Circuit City, Best Buy, Borders), right?

:sigh: Now I'm bummed again because I miss BB and Borders'. :-/

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Not really. Do you know where our dmv is? Right across the street, down bradly. Between mattis and duncan.
Hrm, I've seen PC then.
Where again are the dorms?
I can't see how the campus fits there.

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The dorms are over by west side park, church and state I believe.
Ahh, gotcha.

The campus definately fits, but barely. It's surrounded by a park, but butts up to a subdivision. However, we are going to get a new building in the next few years. They are moving all of admissions and student services into one separate building because we are running out of space.
Cool.

I also believe that an equine center is in the works.
Heh, UIUC and K-State both have top vet med schools - IIRC the equine medicine program here is pretty high up on the national lists. I've only been on a horse once before, never really ridden, but it's interesting to learn about them.

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No problem.
Are you at UIUC?

Yes, that's the one. I've only been to it the once.

You bear a slight resemblance to a friend of mine, BTW.

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Several of my classmates from the UIUC DCS Ph.D. program taught at Parkland. What are you majoring in?

Nice website, BTW.

Is it all right with you if I add you?
Feel free to add me back if you wish.

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Aha! Have you read a couple of books by J. C. Herz? The one about net surfing is a bit trite now, 8 years later, but back when MUDding was a relative novelty in the USA and everybody and her brother didn't play roguelikes, I found that sort of thing rather interesting.

Ever read the Journal of Virtual Environments (JOVE)?
I only just now noticed they renamed themselves, presumably to have a more "respectable" academic-sounding title than The Journal of MUD Research (which seemed just fine to me).

Here's a page you might be interested in, and may have seen before.

When you get to UIUC, I recommend you look up the Ed Psych department (Gary Cziko et al.). I used to work with the late Janet Sniezek's¹ people in her Judgement and Decision Making (JDM) lab and attended seminars by Donchin's P300 folks in Biological Intelligence at the Beckman Institute. There is a group there called Neuronal Pattern Analysis. If that sort of thing interests you, please look them up, along with the Artificial Neural Networks and Computational Brain Theory (ANNCBT) seminar. Tell 'me I sent you. :)

¹ I didn't know she died until I looked for her home page, just now. Wow.

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Oo! So many links, so little time! Thank you!
You're most welcome!
Please feel free to add to my ball of yarn, with a skein or two here and there later on. I'm thinking about hosting a Wiki for ANNCBT.

I see you're in cogsci but not neuroscience - have a look and let me know if you find any more HCII-related communities. Thanks!

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YOU dropped an f-bomb???? O.O
Little-known fact to my online friends, poorly-kept secret among friends in fleshspace: I occasionally cuss like a sailor when really torqued.

I'm surprised you didn't put "s" as the last key used. :oD
It had occurred to me!
In fact, it did before I interpreted "key" as a piece of metal - but then, it was almost 05:00 and I get a little stupid at that hour.

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*looks askance at icon*

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:bright smile:
Have I told you that you are just trasking cool?

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