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Archive for October, 2009
Halloween!
Posted in Life, tagged halloween, holiday, short on October 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I had a departmental computer account set up for me, or at least I asked the IT guy to set one up for me. After I asked I never heard back about it.
Three weeks later my professor mentions something he showed me but he never did. He looks at his e-mail and he did send [...]
Seattle Metro
Posted in Life, tagged bus, late, metro, seattle on October 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dear Seattle Metro,
Thank you for having the 11:20pm bus not arrive. I appreciate the opportunity to wait fifty minutes at night for the 11:50pm bus to show up. If I had known that you decided to not send that particular bus I would have walked home and made it in less time then the consequent [...]
My undergraduate diploma finally made it to my parents house a week ago and the only part I wanted to see was the signature of the President of the Regents.
I am glad that I have that name on my diploma.
Starfish Prime
Posted in Physics, tagged nuclear, Physics, space, starfish prime on October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Twice in one day I have heard references to Starfish Prime. First in my plasma physics course and second in a paper on electromagnetic resonances in the earth-ionosphere cavity.
So I looked it up.
Starfish Prime was one in a series of high altitude nuclear tests. This particular one was detonated over 400km, well into the ionosphere. [...]
Phone Photos
Posted in Photography, tagged short on October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes I see a great photo opportunity but do not have my camera, especially when it is raining out. So I fall back to my phone if it is not raining that hard.
When I do I immediately remember why I bought a DSLR. In the above photo I could have gotten it right with a [...]
Traffics
Posted in Life, tagged traffic, waves on October 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A sudden revelation came to me while sitting morosely in traffic: traffics are compression waves!
This thought made me want to simulate traffic in a 1D or maybe 2D particle model. The cars on the road have a given linear density of car and so the rate at which braking is propagated back is much higher [...]
Simple
Posted in Computers, tagged os x, parallels, install, windows 7, bootcamp on October 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Windows 7 is finally all set up on my Macbook Pro through both Bootcamp and Parallels.
A few thing that caught me up in the installation:
Partitioning a large part of the hard drive could be difficult if you have large files that are frequently used, for me my XP Parallels files prevented me from partitioning my [...]
Lates
Posted in General, tagged short on October 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A post-rain sunset.
Installing Windows 7
Posted in Computers, tagged install, win7 on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I downloaded Windows 7 Professional 64bit Upgrade last night using the student discount. I tried to get it to work today. It has not been easy and it is not working yet.
The current problem is that I want to repartition my OS X hard drive but it won’t let me create a partition past the [...]
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