In case anyone at all on my friends list hasn't seen the news already

E.Gary Gygax, one of the fathers of the RPG, has died.

Some salient information I learned today

Andy Heckler of Ohio State's Physics Education Research group is visiting us here at K-State, and his main talk today was about stuff that's old news in psychology research (some from 1927, other bits from the early 1970s) but which I had not heard of before...and it's potentially of interest to y'all.

( Overshadowing, blocking and how flashy wrong stuff can make us ignore the right stuff. )

Today's EEE post

I took notes at Heckler's talk using my EEE, and by a few minutes in I was going for stretches with "no looking at the computer" touch typing, so it looks like I can adapt to the keyboard. :) I wouldn't want to try using it for all my notetaking, though, because sometimes I have to sketch diagrams and stuff that I can't do quickly in Open Office. Not to mention I rarely sit near an outlet, and an hour-long talk ate about a third of more of the battery strength.

A couple other salient points. OO on the EEE defaults to saving as a Word document (the version of OO we installed on our tablet PCs in the labs default to saving in OO format). And 16 point font is the minimum I can use and not have to lean forward to see what I'm typing.

I saved the file to my SD card, and then used Thunderbird and my gmail account to send a copy to my work account so I can clean it up tomorrow and maybe add a few diagrams while I still remember them.