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holy shit, my emerging markets ETF is down 5.5% today...

Denver, here I come!! :-D

(I got funding to go to a conference in February, '07)

also, why is gmail down? this is unprecedented...

wowsers, teaching electronics that I learned 4 years ago is *rough*. I'm leading some workshops on basic electrical circuits and sheesh, I didn't realise how much I've forgotten. Doesn't help that I learned Kirchhoff's Voltage Law backwards to how these students are doing it. I feel bad for my Tuesday class, because I'm always much more on top ( Read more... )

my 8 hour simulation just finished. right as it was about to save the data, the computer ran out of memory. uugggghhhhhh ( Read more... )

Nietzsche once wrote, "... if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."  This fairly well summarises how I've been feeling about my research the last few weeks.

Don't get me wrong, things have been going very well overall.  In fact, my recent work seems to support one of the competing theories of cochlear mechanics, which ( Read more... )

and who doesn't love battery recalls?

My replacement shipped today, and should arrive within 20 business days :-D

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/08/14/wmoon14.xml

just goes to show it was all faked anyways...

A couple weeks ago, I started to get really obsessed with the idea of building a cable release for my camera.  A cable release is just a wired remote for your camera that controls when your camera focuses and/or opens the shutter.  Why is this useful?  Well, in landscape or astro-photography or any other area of photography where you want to ( Read more... )

    Perhaps 'market' is a bit of a misnomer.  'Once-a-week inside-of-a-lorry parked-behind-a-restaurant frequented-by-asians establishment' may be more accurate.  I can guarantee everything was fresh though, because much of it was still moving... everything from various fish to squid, escargots and crabs.  I was less adventurous and only bought ( Read more... )