okay so i finally accomplished something at work/school. sadly it is just duplicating someone else's work. of course it is George Whitesides who probably spends more money every month in grants than i'll pay over my lifetime in taxes... but still just a repeat.
i managed to get into the nano-scale (note the magic prefix nano, that means funded) today. technically it is still in the micrometer (0.6 um) but hey that is 600 nm! basically i went from something 2um to something 600nm and all without using any expensive chemicals or a clean room (in fact i used a vise strewn with metal shavings in a room with multiple piles of stuff and several pumps that leak a little pump oil).
now i just have to do something new with it!
on the way to confirming that i did make it to the nano-scale realm, i decided i wanted a better image mangement program than just using XP's default viewer. i have previously tried source forge for a open source viewer, but that fell kersplat since none of the programs worked like well acdsee. so then i contemplated just using the trial version of acdsee classic (perhaps upgrading later), but alas for some reason the trial version just wasn't working for me. in despiration i typed "image viewer" into google and it came up with irfanview. thus far i am totally impressed! very awesome program, that is free (which actually makes me want to donate to the guy since he doesn't make me)
23.9.04
into the middle of things
okay i debated on several things inside my head:
subjects of posts, frequency of posts, where i should start...
here's what i thought about/came up with
keith suggested that i put my dissertation up, he said he'd actually read it and edit it during his lunch time. this would be a major plus to me becuase then someone would actually give me some feedback in a written form (my advisor is big on talking, which i hate); since a lot of the stuff in the thesis hasn't been published yet, that might make posting it a little tricky.
so i thought about doing a spiritual type of postings, where i put up stuff i thought about in relation to God, religion, and such things; this means that i would be limiting myself in some ways.
what i came up with was random. yup, if i feel like posting something i will. if i deem it of interest i'll post some parts of my dissertation like the introduction which would have no likely conflicts; another day i might be provoked by a spiritual thought; or another day i just might think of something totally off topic from any other post. i know that my randomness may make my blog less readable to random people interested in specific things, but i don't feel like being thematic right now, so there!
frequency... sarah was doing so awesome providing distraction (although meaningful and helpful, it was still technically distraction since i read it at work) when she posted stuff everyday at her somethingepic.com blog but alas once a day is quite frequent and i am definately not up to being that disciplined. so i thought perhaps once a week i should try to get something up so at least i keep some sort of readership, if only my mom; yet even that feels like what if i have nothing to say? i am tempted to go random, but i know that will dwindle into thin to nothing. so i will try to do at least one post a week. if i have nothing from my life, i shall start with a sentence from a book and see where it will go for at least a paragraph.
finally i wondered what i should do about background and all that. well, its just too bad. people will have to pick up stuff from context, because i am too lazy to give background! =)
happy reading to any who do.
subjects of posts, frequency of posts, where i should start...
here's what i thought about/came up with
keith suggested that i put my dissertation up, he said he'd actually read it and edit it during his lunch time. this would be a major plus to me becuase then someone would actually give me some feedback in a written form (my advisor is big on talking, which i hate); since a lot of the stuff in the thesis hasn't been published yet, that might make posting it a little tricky.
so i thought about doing a spiritual type of postings, where i put up stuff i thought about in relation to God, religion, and such things; this means that i would be limiting myself in some ways.
what i came up with was random. yup, if i feel like posting something i will. if i deem it of interest i'll post some parts of my dissertation like the introduction which would have no likely conflicts; another day i might be provoked by a spiritual thought; or another day i just might think of something totally off topic from any other post. i know that my randomness may make my blog less readable to random people interested in specific things, but i don't feel like being thematic right now, so there!
frequency... sarah was doing so awesome providing distraction (although meaningful and helpful, it was still technically distraction since i read it at work) when she posted stuff everyday at her somethingepic.com blog but alas once a day is quite frequent and i am definately not up to being that disciplined. so i thought perhaps once a week i should try to get something up so at least i keep some sort of readership, if only my mom; yet even that feels like what if i have nothing to say? i am tempted to go random, but i know that will dwindle into thin to nothing. so i will try to do at least one post a week. if i have nothing from my life, i shall start with a sentence from a book and see where it will go for at least a paragraph.
finally i wondered what i should do about background and all that. well, its just too bad. people will have to pick up stuff from context, because i am too lazy to give background! =)
happy reading to any who do.
15.9.04
Testing 1, 2, 3...
Okay just testing to see how this all looks when I actually do post.
Now I guess I'll have to start thinking of things to post =).
Now I guess I'll have to start thinking of things to post =).
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