January 2010
85 posts
I Miss My Home
The Guardian: Forests are everywhere.
The Viking: Yes, but they smell different here.
Swamps are everywhere, but mine smells different…
December 2009
57 posts
The Future of Brain-Controlled Devices →
“But what’s normal now anyhow?”
– Porcupine Tree (“Normal”)
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Composer - Work In Progress
The doorbell rang for a second time and John woke up with a start, springing forward from the ancient and grimy couch that stood at the far left edge of his ancient and grimy apartment. He looked at the clock radio on the end table, saw that he had somehow managed to fall asleep and began to curse himself silently as he stumbled off of the couch and made a vain attempt at brushing out the...
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Trapped Electron
Watch me strain against the bitter cold
The electric pull fighting to grab hold
The gods above put the coals to my feet
I make use of this newfound heat
I claw my way to the top and to mobility
I run and dodge to the best of my ability
Till at last I reach the freeness from that hell
The dark and cold gloom of my potential well
Russia may send spacecraft to knock away asteroid →
Deep Impact/Armageddon anyone? Good news is that NASA predicts that the asteroid will be a near miss (near being approximately 18,000 miles) when it’s scheduled to come close to Earth in 2029.
“The coldest blood runs through my veins; you know my name.”
– Chris Cornell
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On the Energy Barrier
I’m of the opinion that the first physical system that every engineer and scientist should understand is the energy barrier. Energy barriers are one of those things that tend to appear in nature with a certain regularity as just about anything which is thermally activated tends to depend on them.
Are you interested in how the viscosity or diffusivity of a molecule changes with...
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On the Failure of Moral Relativism
If morality is relative, then we can derive no non-subjective conclusions about how an individual in society “should” behave. Thus the ethics which allow our society to exist or function can be based only on social contract and our own biological tendencies. Why is this? Without definitive truth, without a defined “right” and a defined “wrong”, morality and ethics simply become a code which...
I Fucking Love Imaginary Numbers!
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I should add...
If you like my stories, unfinished though most of them may be, please reblog them at your leisure. I like the idea of my writing reaching other people - I want people to enjoy reading what I write. HOWEVER, please reference me in your re-blog so people can see where this stuff came from. Many thanks.
Studio Sidan Photography →
My labmate’s photoblog. He’s a very good photographer.
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Oracle
The sun reflected near-perfectly off of the ice-covered and mirrored waste of the oracle world. The steel-plastic composite of the ship’s skeleton creaked in the upper atmosphere as the sunward side felt the sudden compression of relatively cold atmosphere and the dark side felt the sudden expansion of the warmer yet self-same atmosphere. They dodged the orbiting communications satellite, the...
The Physics of Space Battles →
(via therealadam)
Florida coach Urban Meyer steps down for health... →
Fuck…
Where I got the idea from... →
Researchers at the University of Tennessee are working on developing Thin Film Transistor matrices with Carbon Nano Fibers which can be used for probing a variety of different cellular processes. They’ve also used a similar technology for growing networks of nerve cells onto semiconductor chips.
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NaNCII - Told you I'd finish it...
You never found Scarecrow. He found you. There was a certain inevitability in that knowledge, and it helped to ease his mind as he waited for fate to finally meet him face to face. They’d told him to meet them here, the corporates. There would be the usual small talk, veiled threats hidden beneath what seemed like idle chatter. One of the jumpy bodyguards would cough as some webrunner’s grey...
“There is nothing in this world that I fear to say.”
– Dmitri Mendeleev (The man who created the Periodic Table)
“1) National security is the chief cause of national insecurity.
2) Accurate...”
– Celine’s Laws
“Pray, hope and don’t worry. Worry is useless.”
– St. Padre Pio
At last... it is done.
A Brief Edit: I am going to start working to finish the scarecrow story by the weekend and will be posting far more often now that this massive clusterfuck is over with. Stay tuned for that as well as what I’m reading recreationally for the holiday and those solid state physics essays. Guy’s gotta keep busy somehow…
Ion cutting achieved by the implantation of hydrogen or the...
Where I Got The Idea From... →
Being a guy who does his research in materials for display electronics, this interested me a lot. Not hard to imagine this being used for mobile ubiquitous computing soon.
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Lost Contacts
Where were his contacts?
He blinked away the sleep from his eyes and the mental fuzz which was the remnants of another long night away from home, punctuated first by four pitchers of intoxication at Durty Nelly’s, then a long stumble home their breaths blowing white clouds of steam in the cold night air, his roommate on the couch a shared movie, a quick run to the hydrogen station, cola, bed. ...
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Devo: Big Mess (1982)
Devo,...
Apparently they Really Want Me to Publish...
Edit: I don’t think I’m going to post any more than my abstract on this site until the article actually gets published because of IP issues. However, prepare yourselves for the Whiting Lectures on Solid State Physics. It sounds scary, I know. Trust me, you’ll like them.
Fuck my life… Corning’s getting on my ass about publishing some of the methods I’ve...
