Update on Fall 2011 Papers

[This is an update to post: http://cmkularski.net/2011/09/fall-2011-semester-papers/] Course # Paper Topic Pages Req. Status Tutorial in Sociology SOCY 6895 Sociology of Masculinity 20-30 IP:  4 pages LGBT Studies WGST 2050 Declassification of Homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 2-4 Graded: 100% LGBT Studies WGST 2050 Evolution of Interaction Between Homosexuality and […]

Gender at UNC-Charlotte

I was filling out this survey for the Graduate School at UNC-Charlotte and came to the demographic questions and was stunned to see that we have more than 2 options for gender. Way to go UNCC Graduate School for recognizing that there are more than 2 ways to think about gender. Posted from Bessemer City, […]

Event: Robin James–Personally Speaking

For anyone with an interest in music, gender and/or race, I would recommend attending this event. Robin James is an absolutely brilliant philosopher and a very eloquent speaker.  See the flyer below for all of the details: http://www.uncc.edu/spotlight/2011/robin-james http://library.uncc.edu/node/847 http://clas.uncc.edu/Personally-Speaking/ http://philosophy.uncc.edu/Faculty/robin-james.html http://www.its-her-factory.blogspot.com/ Posted from Charlotte, North Carolina, United States.

My Spring 2012 Schedule

Introduction to Cognitive Science [ITCS6216] Mark Faust This course presents multiple perspectives on the study of intelligent systems. Broad coverage of such topics as philosophy of mind; human memory processes; reasoning and problem solving; artificial intelligence; language processing (human and machine); neural structures and processes and vision. Also includes is participation in the cognitive science […]

Domain Popularity by Number of Queries

I have been using Zerigo’s DNS service on some of my domains for the past 4 days. These are the current statistics regarding number of queries. Obviously icurtis.me is the preferred location of the domains that I have started using here so far. Zerigo keeps track of # of queries because there is a max […]

Spring 2012 Class Schedule Released

CSLG 6150  Career Development & Cslg W 05:30 pm-08:15 pm Henry L. Harris (P) 01/09-05/01 DENNY 216 MA Counseling CSLG 6160  Theories Chemical Dependence T 05:30 pm-08:15 pm Laura J. Veach (P) 01/09-05/01 COED 202 MA Counseling PHIL 6350  Philosophy of Technology W 03:00 pm-05:45 pm Gordon D. Hull (P) 01/09-05/01 WINN 107 None. Personal […]

Nerd Nirvana: Vanity DNS Servers

For as long as I have had domain names, I have wanted vanity DNS servers, but never had them, never even had a chance for them. Now after beginning a change of DNS providers I have 2 sets of vanity DNS servers. One for totally personal use (A-F.KULARSKI.ORG) and one for all other uses (A-F.NS.PCFIRE.NET). […]

Machine Learning

As if I weren’t doing enough this semester already I have decided to take on the task of learning about Machine Learning. The course is offered by a Stanford University associate professor of computer science, Andrew Ng (see http://ml-class.org if you are interested). Originally I was interested in this course simply because I’m a nerd […]

Constructing Hegemonic Masculinity

[Cross Post: http://www.masculineimagery.net/?p=15] In my current reading for sociology of masculinity (tutorial) I have run across some interesting and some disturbing conceptions of what drives masculinity. In the article I was focusing on tonight the author (Sharon Bird) conceived of a masculinity formed by three basic principles: Emotional distance Competitiveness Sexual objectification of women I […]