A few weeks ago, I was using wiki to look up the programming language haskell and also things about xmonad. Invariably, this led me to various pages on logicians, logic, mathematics, and so on ( Read more... )

I found a great set of ROOT libraries developed at GANIL called KaliVeda. I haven't learned all about the libraries yet to fully exploit their awesomeness, and in fact, so far I'm using them for a purpose slightly other than they were intended ( Read more... )

...that I came up with for my situation, which I should make into a t-shirt.

The motto itself is Fuck Off and Die. But, that can be put as:

FO & DIY

Which is "Forgive my Overwork and Do It Yourself."

Okay,

I just had a good laugh at this...email from my mother. A much better laugh than I'd had at anything in a long time.

You have been summoned to jury duty. You need to email them, so they can let you know what you need to provide. Don't blow this off, you will have a bench warrant in kzoo county ( Read more... )

So, I literally went to a bookstore today with the sole intent of buying Dante's Inferno.

It took about 25 minutes to decide among the copies I found, since I didn't anticipate so many translations.

In any case, I needed a road map pretty badly.

So far the results have been really great.

props the gmail translator lab, aka "help global warming by looking like a slacker ( Read more... )

( These stupid ideas hidden not to scroll friends' pages )

I'm not sure how many hacker geeks read this, but I assume there are enough or at least enough who would appreciate this post.

Although you may be well familiar with the editor wars between vi and emacs, you should really read the wiki. Specifically, the humor section is pretty great ( Read more... )

So a very jank prototype of my future website is now hosted on my domain: goatface.org. If you just start entering random page numbers, you can find some funny crap I forgot was there, but if you start at the about page and start paging through (try turning the pages) you can see some of the actual physics content I was working on and generally ( Read more... )

We have the annual open campus tomorrow, which practically speaking means we have more work to do other than our research. Of course these events are good, since most of science is publicly funded, and general people should have an easy chance to come and visit. Of course one could set up personal or group tours, but in practice this is extremely ( Read more... )