Saturday, September 22, 2007
Surface Pressure
The week has been full of ups and downs. Some of the downs were beyond my control, others not so much. Perhaps the most amusing of these setbacks happened a couple of hours ago when I noticed that a certain type of simulation I thought I finally had managed to figure out had some very high surface pressures (>100 times than they should be). I think I've tracked down the problem, but I feel rather embarassed...
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Meme from Lutherpunk and Anastasia
4 crushes (ones I can talk about):
1. Liz – 3rd Grade. We met at summer camp. We once thought we had made a growth enhancement drug out of baby oil and other secret ingredients. She's an environmental chemist now...
2. Katherine– 12th grade. Sophomore girl utterly wrong for me, though her poetry was good. I later learned that my mother conspired to get her as my prom date.
3. Carole – Between high school and college. She had a shampoo or something whose odor I always will remember.
4. Andrea – College. I wrote her an extremely embarassing mash note on whose account my ex-girlfriend still makes fun of me.
4 Pieces of Clothing I wish I still owned (and/or that still fit):
1. My father's Hobart wrestling shirt. It's a little too worn now.
2. My green sweater. It disappeared one night after a very good dinner with an old professor of mine.
3. My bar mitzvah suit. (The one I wore to my friends' bar mitzvot.)
4. My old field hat. Lost in the Guadalupe these three years.
4 names I’ve been called at one time or another:
1. Encyclopedia
2. Info[my name]
3. Green Pimple (a church secretary nickname as a matter of fact)
4. Godboy (there were two other Godboys...and yes, there was a Trinity reference...)
4 Professions I secretly Want to Try:
1. Judge
2. Hurricane forecaster
3. Baseball statistician (actually a friend of mine does this)
4. Television writer
4 Musicians I’d most want to go on a date with:
1. Vanessa Carlton, circa 2002
2. Kate Ryan, circa 2004
3. Kylie Minogue (whenever she appeared on Vicar of Dibley)
4. Natasha Bedingfield.
4 Foods I’d rather Throw than Eat
1. Eggplant
2. Most pork.
3. Shrimp, most of the time.
4. Brie.
4 Things I Like to Sniff
1. Olive oil.
2. Hair.
3. Bengay.
4. Clean clothes.
1. Liz – 3rd Grade. We met at summer camp. We once thought we had made a growth enhancement drug out of baby oil and other secret ingredients. She's an environmental chemist now...
2. Katherine– 12th grade. Sophomore girl utterly wrong for me, though her poetry was good. I later learned that my mother conspired to get her as my prom date.
3. Carole – Between high school and college. She had a shampoo or something whose odor I always will remember.
4. Andrea – College. I wrote her an extremely embarassing mash note on whose account my ex-girlfriend still makes fun of me.
4 Pieces of Clothing I wish I still owned (and/or that still fit):
1. My father's Hobart wrestling shirt. It's a little too worn now.
2. My green sweater. It disappeared one night after a very good dinner with an old professor of mine.
3. My bar mitzvah suit. (The one I wore to my friends' bar mitzvot.)
4. My old field hat. Lost in the Guadalupe these three years.
4 names I’ve been called at one time or another:
1. Encyclopedia
2. Info[my name]
3. Green Pimple (a church secretary nickname as a matter of fact)
4. Godboy (there were two other Godboys...and yes, there was a Trinity reference...)
4 Professions I secretly Want to Try:
1. Judge
2. Hurricane forecaster
3. Baseball statistician (actually a friend of mine does this)
4. Television writer
4 Musicians I’d most want to go on a date with:
1. Vanessa Carlton, circa 2002
2. Kate Ryan, circa 2004
3. Kylie Minogue (whenever she appeared on Vicar of Dibley)
4. Natasha Bedingfield.
4 Foods I’d rather Throw than Eat
1. Eggplant
2. Most pork.
3. Shrimp, most of the time.
4. Brie.
4 Things I Like to Sniff
1. Olive oil.
2. Hair.
3. Bengay.
4. Clean clothes.
Thursday, September 06, 2007
201! Woot!
No Unpleasantness Here
The only thing Michaelmas will mean around here is a school year beginning, drinking with colleagues taking their qualifying exams (after they take them), and a little angelic doulia . I have better things to do like forming a Thesis Committee. Oh, wait, that took about a half hour today. I need that "Easy button" my aunt gave me right about now.
EDITED TO CORRECT BOTH ERRORS. THANKS, READERS.
Yes, The Content on This Blog Has Degenerated
Blame it on the five things I'm trying to do at the moment and can't make progress on at the moment.
So let's have a little fun with the Prayer Book. The other day I was looking at the kalendar in the front and noticed once more the letters "A, b, c, d, e, f, g" that cycle next the days from Holy Name to Holy Name Even. The year begins on A and ends on A. What are these letters for? Well, I had a hypothesis. I remember from my childhood looking at the Tables and Rules for Finding Easter Day. They always mentioned the necessity of two parameters, the Sunday Letter and the Golden Number. Well, could the letters be related to the Sunday Letter? Indeed. the Sunday letter is defined as the letter next to the first Sunday of the year, except in March-December of leap years in which the Sunday letter shifts backward, A to g, g to f, etc.
So what's the Golden Number? Take the year, add 1, and divide it by 19, then find the remainder. If it's zero, the Golden Number is 19. Then look at March and April and find the Golden Number next to the date. That's not the date of Easter, but the Sunday Letter of the year following the Golden Number date is. In this way, you can calculate the date of Easter in a year not given in the Tables on pp. 882-883.
Let's work an example. Suppose you want the date of Easter in 2161 (points if you know why that particular date). The Sunday Letter is d. 19 into 2162 is 113 with a remainder of 15 (Golden Number!) (I forget long division for some reason now...). So we find that the Golden Number day is April 10, meaning that Easter will be April 12. The commenters correctly calculate the date in 2168.
This has been Liturgical Math 101.
The only thing Michaelmas will mean around here is a school year beginning, drinking with colleagues taking their qualifying exams (after they take them), and a little angelic doulia . I have better things to do like forming a Thesis Committee. Oh, wait, that took about a half hour today. I need that "Easy button" my aunt gave me right about now.
EDITED TO CORRECT BOTH ERRORS. THANKS, READERS.
Yes, The Content on This Blog Has Degenerated
Blame it on the five things I'm trying to do at the moment and can't make progress on at the moment.
So let's have a little fun with the Prayer Book. The other day I was looking at the kalendar in the front and noticed once more the letters "A, b, c, d, e, f, g" that cycle next the days from Holy Name to Holy Name Even. The year begins on A and ends on A. What are these letters for? Well, I had a hypothesis. I remember from my childhood looking at the Tables and Rules for Finding Easter Day. They always mentioned the necessity of two parameters, the Sunday Letter and the Golden Number. Well, could the letters be related to the Sunday Letter? Indeed. the Sunday letter is defined as the letter next to the first Sunday of the year, except in March-December of leap years in which the Sunday letter shifts backward, A to g, g to f, etc.
So what's the Golden Number? Take the year, add 1, and divide it by 19, then find the remainder. If it's zero, the Golden Number is 19. Then look at March and April and find the Golden Number next to the date. That's not the date of Easter, but the Sunday Letter of the year following the Golden Number date is. In this way, you can calculate the date of Easter in a year not given in the Tables on pp. 882-883.
Let's work an example. Suppose you want the date of Easter in 2161 (points if you know why that particular date). The Sunday Letter is d. 19 into 2162 is 113 with a remainder of 15 (Golden Number!) (I forget long division for some reason now...). So we find that the Golden Number day is April 10, meaning that Easter will be April 12. The commenters correctly calculate the date in 2168.
This has been Liturgical Math 101.
Saturday, September 01, 2007
My Outdoor Thermometer of Doom
My outdoor thermometer of doom is attached to my bike and is thus on my somewhat covered balcony. It presently records 111 F. This is not the scientific air temperature (I don't have a black hood for it etc.)...the closest reliable station records 98 F. Did I mention that the air conditioning in my building is broken?
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