SHORTLY before her mother died in 2005 at the age of 92, Lynda Hatcher, 50, began methodically sorting through her mother's collection of photographs, negatives and memorabilia.
"Take discount bins," says Gunz. "Some shoppers will methodically sort through them, perhaps separating out the blue clothes and the red clothes, and shop assistants will actually mess it all back up, because the point of it is a treasure hunt.
Eventually, I would think AI will be able to sift through all this information and methodically sort it, understand it, learn from it, and possess their own thoughts and feelings — possibly even take us over!
If progress can be measured in hours spent in conference rooms, then the N.B.A. lockout would appear to be moving — slowly, methodically — toward some sort of conclusion.
Wüthrich's solution, called sequential assignment, sorts out the tangle by methodically matching up each NMR signal with the corresponding hydrogen nucleus in the protein being analyzed.
Where last week Saga reacted to bad news by methodically lining up the files on her shelves, this week her sorting of cupboards soon turns to smashing, with IKEA utensils all over the floor, as her colleagues look on.
It is a trait developed over the last 15 years, since he abandoned Britain and joined (at the bottom) the traditional German career ladder known as the Kapellmeister system: a sort of musical civil service in which you work your way methodically from job to job through a hierarchy of local opera houses and associated local orchestras.
Lucky people don't plod along methodically; while that guarantees a safe and secure path, lucky people take the path less known and meet all sorts of amazing opportunities along the way.
The red shirts worked methodically, with practiced precision and without the dramatic flair seen in "The Hurt Locker," which covered the handling of explosives of a different sort.
