Many of your opening lines are funny — for instance, "Arriving early at the limit of understanding, I managed to find a good seat".
are more like high-level objectives, ideals, rather than mere goals to accomplish like, for instance, arriving at the office on time, delivering a good presentation at a conference, or finding a time slot for a faculty board meeting.
These often take place within a script framework (for instance, the academic colloquium, which has defined roles and ritualized behavior) but the essence of the activity (for instance, arriving at a theoretical explanation of puzzling data) is invariably emergent and unscripted.
(The iPod, for instance, arrived three years after Rio established the market for MP3 players).
A poached egg, for instance, arrives after being cooked at 147 degrees, so that the yolk and the white have exactly the same texture.
Itzhak Perlman, for instance, arrived at Juilliard, in 1959, at the age of thirteen, and studied there for eight years, working with both DeLay and Ivan Galamian, another revered instructor.
My soft-shell crabs, for instance, arrived warm, while the fresh fava beans served with them ranged from cold to tepid.
Jerry and Judy Woods from Evanston, Ill., for instance, arrived in Milan the day before the war started and went to view Leonardo's "Last Supper" on the first day of the conflict.
Some people, for instance, arrived at a swanky San Francisco hotel bar, where they were given a drink and whisked away to a penthouse suite with outdoor balconies and sweeping views of the city, which they were encouraged to photograph with Glass.
The rubber band, for instance, arrived in 1845, but only after Britain's Thomas Hancock and the American Charles Goodyear discovered that heating rubber with sulphur - vulcanisation - transformed an unstable raw material into something much more useful.
In order to estimate variance components with a satisfying accuracy and precision, for instance for arriving at trustworthy power calculations in a planned intervention study, larger samples of data will be required than for estimating an exposure mean value with a corresponding certainty.
