Slow end to a long week
Sep 24th 2004Wallabynerd alert
9-11: Stare at a math-heavy paper[1] on generalized 2D correlation stuff, trying to decide if I really really need to figure out how to update the lab’s script that does the earlier version of the same technique. (The new one’s supposed to be faster than the FFT version for smallish data sets, but it’s already more than fast enough as is. Neither one offers a clear advantage for non-periodic measurements with not-quite-evenly-spaced perturbations that we’re using it for. I’m leaning towards saying that the old one ain’t broke.)
11-12: Discuss where the lab was going to go for lunch – Indian or [sushi][2]? It was the last day for one of our post-docs, who got a RealJob less than two months of working here, so we took him out for sushi. Because he’s not Japanese.
12-1: Sushi. (Kampyo and spicy California, as usual.)
1-3: More staring at the paper and matlab, followed by a very fruitful collaboration on today’s crossword which led to the complete and nearly-satisfactory solution. (“Awards for top players” – BYYs?)
3-3:30: [Ice cream][3]! Pumpkin and cinnamon crumb cake.
3:30-5:30: Assorted time-wasting and sundry slacking, with frequent bursts of solitaire. Occasional pangs of guilty concern over the poster that has to get printed in four days, but not enough to spur me on to actually doing anything about it.
Eh, there’s always tomorrow.
[1] I. Noda, Appl. Spectroscopy 54, 7, 994-999 (2000)
[2] http://www.sushidotcome.com
[3] http://stucchis.koolhost.com/
