Manufacturology

I write like — Arthur C Clarke?

I’m proud to announce that the lit­er­ary qual­ity of this blog allegedly meets the high­est pos­si­ble stan­dards. When I applied the sta­tis­ti­cal text analy­sis tool found at “I Write Like” on some of the most read posts on Man­u­fac­tur­ol­ogy over the last 24 hours, I was told that my writ­ing resem­bles that of Arthur C Clarke (3 posts), Daniel Defoe (1 post), and David Fos­ter Wal­lace (2 posts).

I’m there­fore proud to present the fol­low­ing badge:

I write like
Arthur Clarke

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac jour­nal soft­ware. Ana­lyze your writing!

Btw, here is an inter­view with the soft­ware devel­oper who wrote the “I Write Like” site and algo­rithm. The results aren’t based on any “real” analy­sis. Read crit­i­cism start­ing with the com­ments here.

Summertime and growing tomatoes

Home grown tomato plants on my veranda.

Sum­mer­time is here, and I’m more or less tak­ing a break from the key­board. Expect only spo­radic post­ings until the end of August. For the next cou­ple of weeks I will be hav­ing lazy days gar­den­ing and mak­ing some smaller main­te­nance jobs at our sum­mer house.

Today was the first day back at home after a week of bathing and crab fish­ing with the kids on the beau­ti­ful island Syd Långö on the Swedish west coast. I was very pleased to find that my home grown tomato plants have sur­vived my absence. Thir­teen of the thirty seeds that I sowed in a plant­ing box back in April have now grown into sturdy plants replanted in ten litre buck­ets. There are plenty of flow­ers, and I also found that one car­ries a small tomato.

The first big ques­tion now is, will I man­age to keep them alive through the sum­mer? And then if I do, will there be any toma­toes before the sum­mer is over?

How­ever, I’m not com­pletely off work. Within a few days I can expect a list of names on stu­dents that have been granted admis­sion to the Mate­ri­als design pro­gramme, a 300 ECTS credit edu­ca­tion in mate­ri­als sci­ence for which I’m assis­tant pro­gram man­ager. Appli­cants are required to respond within about two weeks and con­firm that they accept their place. Dur­ing that time, I will keep an eye on my mail­box to ensure that no ques­tions remain unan­swered. All appli­cants will also receive a per­sonal phone call to wel­come them and give them a chance to ask questions.