Sue Felshin

This is my heart-palpitatingly exciting home page. The last time I updated it and bothered to update the update date was 5 May, 2003.

I am a research scientist at MIT. My research area is natural language processing.

In my Copious Free Time I have been known, among other things, to

bicycle
- What I Did On My Summer Vacation (written by my brother, who did it too)
- MassBike: Bicycle Activity in Massachusetts
make bobbin lace (What is it? There's really no point to listing links for this. Just search for "bobbin lace". If you're interested in lace in the 18th century, you can check out my research in progress at Lace In American Revolutionary War Reenacting.)
crochet
bake and cook
re-enact 18th century life
- Le 85ème Régiment de Saintonge/4th Middlesex Militia of Massachusetts
- some Web pages I maintain:
  - Glossary of 18th Century Costume Terminology—in progress; mostly women's with a smidgen of men's and children's, mostly American and English with a smidgen of French
  - Lace In American Revolutionary War Reenacting—draft! unfinished!
  - How to Make an 18th Century Cap
  - Making a Short Cloak
  - “Here we behold a hat, there a bonnet…”: Bonnets in the 18th Century
  - Source List for 18cWoman—bibliography of books, etc., mentioned on the former 18cWoman mailing list
- 18cNewEnglandLife: clothing and accoutrements for the Battle Road reenactment and, more generally, New England life in the Revolutionary era (preserved via the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine)
- 18cLife mailing list—everything about 18th century civilian life and reenacting it
- SavoryFare2 mailing list—18th century foodways
- RevListe Main Page
play with my favorite toy
- Merriam-Webster Dictionary
- Roget's Thesaurus

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Do you create Web pages? Do the rest of the world a favor and read Composing Good HTML (Version 2.0.6). Some other potentially useful links if you author HTML:

Frames Suck Most of the Time (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox December 1996) HTML 4.0 Reference Specification HTML 3.2 Reference Specification W3C - The World Wide Web Consortium Tables in Netscape 1.1 The Table Sampler