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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
The MisInventions of Milo Weatherby
My friend Bill Whirity (see link to his website on the side) is making a movie (look for his other movie Broke on netflix!) called The MisInvetntions of Milo Weatherby. From what I have seen of it, it will be awesome. It is about these two kids and their, well, misinventions with science. They just [...]
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
Moon Revolving Around the Earth
Images of the earth and moon from 31 million miles away. “A NASA spacecraft designed to look for comets turned its cameras homeward, capturing a unique view of the moonEarth as seen from 31 million miles away. The spacecraft, Deep Impact, took shots at 15-minute intervals, which were combined to make the sequence shown below. [...]
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Saturday, June 14th, 2008
Nice view
Sox won 5-4 tonight over the Rockies. Good rally in the 7th won the game for them. I always like this view from the ramps at New Comiskey (Us Cellular Field):
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
Light Bulb Brainteaser
Let’s say you have three light switches, one of which controls a single light bulb hanging in the middle of a room. The light switches are outside of the room, and with the door shut there is no way to see that the light is on — no light under the door, through a keyhole, [...]
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
Water Balloon in slow motion
This is just really cool. It’s a water balloon colliding with a guy’s head in slow motion (1000FPS = 1000 frames per second). Played back at 30FPS (normal video) that is a slowdown rate of 3% of normal speed. For more science experiment at 5min.com I am always fascinated by things like this in slow [...]
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Virtual Box
So I have been using the Ubuntu linux distribution on my work desktop for a few weeks now, and have acclimated pretty well. There are still some things that I need from Windows here and there, and I was looking for ways to run a virtual version of windows inside my Ubuntu OS. After asking [...]
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
Creative Settlement
Turns out that Creative was sued for basing the listed size of its hard drives in base 10 instead of base 2, leading to lower actual capacity than the drive’s advertised size. Link!
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
Change in Comments
I have been getting a lot of comments and trackbacks that are spam, so I reluctantly are changing it so that i have to approve all first comments for them to appear. After that, if you have had a comment approved, you should be able to post as normal.
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
I passed!
I passed my oral thesis defense today, so I currently have a masters! In celebration, watch this:
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
Masters Thesis Defense
Today! 10AM. I have put a lot of work over the past few months into putting together my thesis, and I am hoping that will pay off. I found this xkcd comic strangely appropriate — hopefully I am not subconsciously doing something like this during my presentation: I guess there aren’t imaginary antennas…