Both finals are finished and submitted. The only thing I have left to do is finish my two project papers. I have about 15 days to do that, of which 8 are unclaimed and available for writing.
There's nothing like having to do a final exam to make me want to do something else. In this case, it's clean out bookcases. I have way too many books, and I'm out of space. My new science and astr
Somehow, after several years on LJ, I've managed to run up 143 "mutual friends". However, thanks to the fact that so few people use their real names, and many people change their LJ names over time,
I just came back late last night from 5 days in Boston and the Berkshires. The Berkshires C-4 weekend went well, and I think everyone had a good time.
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I keep running across web sites written by differently-realitied individuals (i.e. wackos) about astronomical topics. Here are my two current favorites:
Berkshires: I need to write about 2 more tips (15 cards) of harder material between now and Friday. This should be easy enough, even if I have to do it on Friday in Boston when I have the day free.
Well, I finished my writing last night so I got to set up my scope. It took a surprisingly long time to put the base and IntelliScope stuff together, but I got it done around dark. I took it outside
I told myself this morning that if I wrote up a summary of the Super-Kamiokande neutrino detection experiment, and drew a good picture of the solar CNO cycle, and figure out what the flux of 17F-delay
I just finished listening to Hawking's "The Universe in a Nutshell" on audiotape. What a disjointed, incomprehensible book. The best thing I can say about it is that it was short! Not recommended t
OK, everyone talked me into it. I bought an iPod Shuffle. This is going to sound lame, but I had no idea how tiny this thing was. I've never seen one in person before. It's very cute.
Since I was a little kid I've enjoyed programming. No, I loved programming. I spent more time in front of a computer from ages 7-28 than I did doing every
Congratulations to my student "B", who soloed yesterday. He did a great job, despite the fact that as I got out of the plane the wind shifted dramatically and started gusting.
Some people have told me they enjoy reading these little essays that I post in response to other students' questions on our class newsgroups, so I'll keep posting them. But they're behind cuts so eve
