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OK, I've settled on my project and essay topics for the semester (and just realized I only have 2.5 weeks to write the essays! Eek!). Here they are (spelling mistakes are not mine):
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This semester has a very different feel to it. Last semester I was in all of the "intro" classes. No one had taken any online classes before, we didn't know much about astronomy, and we were feeling
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Just like cars, airplanes burn less fuel per mile when they fly slower. This is because the drag does up as the square of the airspeed, and the power required goes up as the cube of the airspeed. So
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Today my goal was to fly to RHV for an oil change and a couple of other really minor squawks (cylinder #6 seems to get its spark plugs fouled a lot, slight prop nicks, etc.). This should have taken a
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This morning I undertook the adventure of converting my contacts and calendar from the Palm desktop to the iPhone. Given that Palm is one of the only serious competitors for Apple, you would think Ap
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This week was the first week the semester. The first week is kind of a throw-away week, where we work out the bugs in the online environment, introduce ourselves, etc. So far I've had to submit a bu
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Last night was the second class of "joinery 1". We still spent an hour cutting various pieces of wood down to size. I'm learning this is a major part of woodworking. But at least I'm getting more c
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Last night was the first of two nights for "Joinery 1". I had specifically requested this class because I couldn't make the dates of the other scheduled classes. It turned out to be a big success...
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First impression: I hate typing on it. Perhaps this is an acquired taste.
So far it hasn't crashed, though, which is more than I can say for my Treo today. And I'm able to read email on i
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Multiverses, inflatons, vacuum energy, dark energy, quantum gravity, string theory.
Bah.
A pox on all your houses!
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For those of you who remember having a TV without cable, and have actually seen the random white noise pattern on a channel that no one is broadcasting on...approximately 10% of the observed
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I bought an iPhone.
Well, at least I put in an order for one. 10-20 days for it to arrive.
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Friday night I went to Foothill College for the weekly stargazing-at-the-observatory event because I needed to pick up some equipment someone had left for me. Unfortunately the observatory was closed
