Comments on: Ten Resolutions for 2009 http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/01/ten-resolutions-for-2009.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ten-resolutions-for-2009 Thinking the unthinkable, pondering the imponderable, effing the ineffable and scruting the inscrutable Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:20:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anonymous http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/01/ten-resolutions-for-2009.html#comment-2115 Anonymous Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:03:00 +0000 http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/01/ten-resolutions-for-2009.html#comment-2115 Since you're about to read Ulysses and to learn a new language.. How about starting to learn Finnish, then you could enjoy "In the Parlour at Alastalo" and its legendary scene, "a character's journey to the mantelpiece to fetch a pipe is told in over seventy pages." :)<br/><br/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alastalon_salissa Since you’re about to read Ulysses and to learn a new language.. How about starting to learn Finnish, then you could enjoy “In the Parlour at Alastalo” and its legendary scene, “a character’s journey to the mantelpiece to fetch a pipe is told in over seventy pages.” :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alastalon_salissa

]]> By: Rob http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/01/ten-resolutions-for-2009.html#comment-2114 Rob Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:34:00 +0000 http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/01/ten-resolutions-for-2009.html#comment-2114 OK. Maybe I'll learn Dutch, but also learn to dance the samba?<br/><br/>Note also the New York Times <a HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.html?_r=1" REL="nofollow" rel="nofollow">article</a> yesterday on R. Not very often that an open source statistical analysis package gets this kind of national coverage. <br/><br/>The Times, they are a changin'. OK. Maybe I’ll learn Dutch, but also learn to dance the samba?

Note also the New York Times article yesterday on R. Not very often that an open source statistical analysis package gets this kind of national coverage.

The Times, they are a changin’.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/01/ten-resolutions-for-2009.html#comment-2113 Anonymous Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:02:00 +0000 http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/01/ten-resolutions-for-2009.html#comment-2113 11. complete Part4 of the series on Document standards<br/><br/>rgds<br/>Gopal 11. complete Part4 of the series on Document standards

rgds
Gopal

]]> By: Bart Hanssens http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/01/ten-resolutions-for-2009.html#comment-2112 Bart Hanssens Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:23:00 +0000 http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/01/ten-resolutions-for-2009.html#comment-2112 Happy New Year Rob,<br/><br/>if you really want to learn a cool language, try some Flemish dialect ;-)<br/><br/><br/>Bart Happy New Year Rob,

if you really want to learn a cool language, try some Flemish dialect ;-)

Bart

]]> By: Jomar Silva http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/01/ten-resolutions-for-2009.html#comment-2111 Jomar Silva Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:59:00 +0000 http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/01/ten-resolutions-for-2009.html#comment-2111 Hi Rob,<br/><br/>Learn Portuguese (or Spanish), to better understand how things runs under here :)<br/><br/>Best,<br/><br/>Jomar Hi Rob,

Learn Portuguese (or Spanish), to better understand how things runs under here :)

Best,

Jomar

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/01/ten-resolutions-for-2009.html#comment-2110 Anonymous Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:28:00 +0000 http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/01/ten-resolutions-for-2009.html#comment-2110 Even the Dutch don't recommend learning Dutch - they are such a polyglot nation that it's not unusual for someone from the Netherlands to speak three or four languages, and not rare for them to speak English better than most native English speakers, which is quite embarrassing.<br/><br/>I'd go with Latin - it will help you to understand the roots of a large portion of the English language, help you learn Romance languages (like French, Spanish, Italian and Romanian), and enable you to read classic documents - such as Isaac Newton's 'Principia Mathematica', or Seneca, or Ovid.<br/><br/>Alternatively, try classical Arabic. Then you could read the mediaeval middle-eastern natural philospher's works, and, if you wished, the Koran. Even the Dutch don’t recommend learning Dutch – they are such a polyglot nation that it’s not unusual for someone from the Netherlands to speak three or four languages, and not rare for them to speak English better than most native English speakers, which is quite embarrassing.

I’d go with Latin – it will help you to understand the roots of a large portion of the English language, help you learn Romance languages (like French, Spanish, Italian and Romanian), and enable you to read classic documents – such as Isaac Newton’s ‘Principia Mathematica’, or Seneca, or Ovid.

Alternatively, try classical Arabic. Then you could read the mediaeval middle-eastern natural philospher’s works, and, if you wished, the Koran.

]]> By: Rob http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/01/ten-resolutions-for-2009.html#comment-2109 Rob Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:15:00 +0000 http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/01/ten-resolutions-for-2009.html#comment-2109 #6 should help with #2 as well. Growing lettuce will be much easier than growing peperoni pizza.<br/><br/>I haven't looked at GIMP since 1999 or so. I promise to take another look. But my real goal here is to try to get the composition and technical aspects of the photo correct before I release the shutter, and reduce the time I spend fixing things later, regardless of what application I use. #6 should help with #2 as well. Growing lettuce will be much easier than growing peperoni pizza.

I haven’t looked at GIMP since 1999 or so. I promise to take another look. But my real goal here is to try to get the composition and technical aspects of the photo correct before I release the shutter, and reduce the time I spend fixing things later, regardless of what application I use.

]]> By: Jean Hollis Weber http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/01/ten-resolutions-for-2009.html#comment-2108 Jean Hollis Weber Sat, 03 Jan 2009 20:47:00 +0000 http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/01/ten-resolutions-for-2009.html#comment-2108 Number 6 (grow own veg) should help with number 1 (get more exercise). :-) Number 6 (grow own veg) should help with number 1 (get more exercise). :-)

]]> By: Leif Lodahl http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/01/ten-resolutions-for-2009.html#comment-2107 Leif Lodahl Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:35:00 +0000 http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/01/ten-resolutions-for-2009.html#comment-2107 Hi Robert,<br/>Good luck.<br/><br/>One of my own relsolutions is to have less resolutions ;-) That way I have a good chance to reach the goals.<br/><br/>I can recommend growing your own vegetables. I have done that for years (i even had my own hens for eggs earlier).<br/><br/>Photoshop ? Why not use Gimp ? You disappoint me on this one, Rob.<br/><br/>Happy new year<br/><br/>Leif Lodahl Hi Robert,
Good luck.

One of my own relsolutions is to have less resolutions ;-) That way I have a good chance to reach the goals.

I can recommend growing your own vegetables. I have done that for years (i even had my own hens for eggs earlier).

Photoshop ? Why not use Gimp ? You disappoint me on this one, Rob.

Happy new year

Leif Lodahl

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