personal and professional notes from a chemistry graduate student
May 25th 2005site news
Now that Gallery 2 is getting more mature, I decided to give it a try. (I’m still running version 1 for now, so any new pictures will get added to both.) Looks pretty good so far.
Also, there’s a new plugin to integrate the new Gallery into Wordpress. Still being developed pretty heavily, [...]
May 21st 2005General
Saw the new “Star Wars” movie today. It seems that there are two things that George Lucas does well — exotic/futuristic settings, and assorted aliens/robots. And battles and fight scenes. (OK, that’s three things.) These were all well done. Fortunately, the sorry excuse for characterization (and motives, and dialogue) were [...]
May 14th 2005nerd alert
The latest C&E News has an article on a recent meeting in DC (the 30th AAAS Forum on Science & Technology Policy). Most of the article was about how the evil federal government is cutting (or not increasing) funding to NSF, DOE, and other federal agencies for basic research. (Predictably, the AAAS thinks [...]
May 11th 2005General
Just like this castle:
But, since that’s not really gonna happen… it’d be cool to build one. Maybe just a tower. Doesn’t have to be very tall — I bet the (hypothetical) kids would love climbing around a 15′ tower. Maybe a moat. Is a moat too much to ask?
I figure, if [...]
Saw the Narnia trailer yesterday (download from AOL). It’s hard to tell in a few seconds, of course, but it did look pretty good. (At least they didn’t make Aslan female, or give one of the four siblings an inexplicably diverse skin color, for the sake of being “correct”.) I heard someone [...]