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Very well done stop motion video
Scintillation
Despite the title, safe for work. The video is made up of stop motion photography of objects that are being projected on. -
The stars are blazing like rebel diamonds
We still haven't gotten a decent snow in the Burg this year, but we did get an especially pretty one last night. There was just the right amount of ice crystals that it caught the light as you walked, glistening as if thousands of diamonds had been strewn across the ground. -
Patch your Windows computers
Microsoft released an emergency security patch today. It's likely to be exploited in the near future in very bad ways. Unless you have a good reason not to, I recommend downloading and installing it.
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O-chem and premeds article from Saturday's lunch discussion. (Abstract for people not there: A Harvard Med school instructor argues that pre-meds taking two semesters of conventional o-chem is not beneficial.) -
Speed limit change on 460
As a note for folks who will be visiting Blacksburg, they have raised the speed limit on 460 to 65mph, dropping down to 55 just before the light to turn into campus. I don't know if this goes all the way out to 81 but I assume it does. They do love to speedtrap 460 so be careful where it changes. -
No belfry, but halfway to the bats
The heat has finally arrive in the 'Burg. I'm trying to put off the AC for as long as possible, so I've been putting fans in strategic areas to bring airflow through as much of the house as possible. One of the locations I chose last night did not have a screen and the fan did not fill the entire space leaving a relatively small gap open to the ( Read more... ) -
Flogging Molly this Sunday
I have some extra tickets to Flogging Molly this Sunday night in Richmond. I know some folks are coming down from NOVA so ride sharing should be possible. Drop me a line if you're interested. I may be day tripping from Blacksburg so similar ride possibilities exist from here.