September 2009
1 post
“Not everything that counts is countable, and not everything that’s...”
– Albert Einstein
August 2009
1 post
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
January 2009
1 post
“We will restore science to its rightful place…”
– Obama’s Inaugural, 1/20/2009
October 2008
1 post
September 2008
4 posts
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in...”
– Marcel Proust, on why we do gamma-ray astronomy
Dipity →
I signed up with Dipity, to try out a timeline view of my blog. Still seems a little buggy, particularly in the preview version 2 release, but cute.
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August 2008
3 posts
Great LHC and ATLAS pictures →
July 2008
8 posts
NSPIRES announcements
NASA’s grant selection page doesn’t have an RSS feed, so I built one with Yahoo Pipes. It definitely should be considered a beta version.
“In God we trust, all others bring data.”
– W. Edwards Deming
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Pulsar papers on astro-ph
I really struggle to keep up with the crush of new papers appearing every day on astro-ph, especially when I’m on travel or otherwise not paying attention for a few days and suddenly there are hundreds of new papers to scan through for something interesting. Rather than declaring astro-ph bankruptcy, I’ve figured out how to make Yahoo Pipes do the winnowing for me. Here is an RSS...
http://feeds.feedburner.com/thorsettrss →
I’m attempting to merge the RSS feeds from my various sites into one easy-to-remember location. Probably things will be temporarily messed up.
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Wharf to Wharf 2008
We had great weather this year for the 36th annual Wharf to Wharf run in Santa Cruz, after a really hot race the last two years. The race is capped at 15,000, a crowd that fills up Beach Street between the Boardwalk and the Wharf. The pace signs don’t do much to sort out the crowd, so unless you are running with the Kenyans and Moroccans and Ethiopians up front, the first mile of the six...
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recovery
With the Wharf to Wharf coming up this Sunday, and my long-term right hamstring problem acting up, I’m taking a rest from running this week. The same problem made me pull out of the last marathon I entered, NYC ‘96, and has led to a couple of long recovery breaks since then. This time, maybe I can ease off enough that I don’t have to give up running entirely. But if I...
“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don’t know the...”
– Douglas Adams