long weekend. Andy and I had been planning a trip with James to Arkansas to climb at horse shoe canyon. James decided a long weekend trip was too much, so when he backed out Andy and I started talking about heading to the Red River Gorge in Kentucky with the group from the climbing club. The thing with the red is that the free camping along the ( Read more... )

Been eatin mostly vegetarian for the last few weeks. Well, fish and eggs and cheese, but no red meat or chicken. Actually bought free range eggs as well. It's inspired by a bit of social conscience and a lot by just feeling fat and unhealthy lately. It helps that i bought a basil plant. she's cool. snacks that grow back ( Read more... )

Well, got a job offer from Argonne! About a %50 increase in salary. My boss seems to understand that. Now we just have to work out the details of the transition. From a work point of view nothing is going to change for a while. But He's got a grant and seems to think it will be bad to have a vacant postdoc position on the project. We'll see, ( Read more... )

I received this email today from the Enthought Tool Suite mailing list. Envisage is python based development environment for scientific applications. It's not ready for prime time, but the movement is strong ( Read more... )

I had a job interview on Friday. Argonne is hiring a bunch of people into what are called 705 positions. The title is something like "assitant physicist". They are really beamline scientists. It's essentially the job I have been doing here on a voluntary basis for the last year and a half. I figured if I was doing the job I might as well make ( Read more... )

I had the most random of evenings. The Argonne users meeting has been going on this week. I gave a talk on Tuesday in a workshop, for some reason it's attracted a lot of attention. But anyway... I decided to sleep in today and got up and had coffee and dressed really bummy because it's a really nice day. Wandered off to the lab and went to a ( Read more... )

following Jocelyn's recent enthusiasm for exercise i decided to dust off my bike this weekend and go for a ride. It's was a really nice day and I just kinda wondered my way from home to the lab, about 16 miles. Took it easy on the way there, stopped in the park, stopped for lunch, poked around an outdoor shopping mall that I didn't know existed ( Read more... )

So creepy dude from November 19th is back at our sector. This time he's got the high pressure people to provide an interesting sample and has been less annoying. I've come to think he's one of these people that is a sink of energy. He just sucks it out of me and doesn't give anything back ( Read more... )

Spent the snow day in Illinois hanging out in my apartment. It's nice, basically two rooms and a bathroom and kitchen. I've had this vhs tape of a trip I took to Europe with my dad shortly before he died. It was my graduation gift, a bit early because I was about nine months from actually graduating at the time we went. The tape's been sitting ( Read more... )

hanging in hong kong waiting for a flight to singapore. what am i doing in asia again?
oh yea, visiting Wendy. gonna hang out in singapore and kl for a few weeks.