personal and professional notes from a naive chemistry professor
My faithful companion has died. My Powershot A85 is no more. Actually, it’s just fallen once too many times, and now it can’t adjust the zoom. It *is* stuck on the wide end rather than the tele end, at least, so it’s not totally hopeless. And in particular it makes me far more open to [...]
Dec 6th 2004General
Some people were wondering, so yes, I’m still alive and well. Had “winter head syndrome” much of last week, thanks to the sudden chill in the air — aggravated perhaps by having spent the week before last in wonderful Florida weather. Snow is nice and I’ve learned to not mind winters up here so much, [...]
Nov 29th 2004General
Apparently it’s the birthday of C. S. Lewis, Louisa May Alcott, and Madeleine L’Engle, all at once. At least
Nov 16th 2004General
I’m trying to decide between a new camera (the Canon A85) and a new PDA (Dell Axim X30, with wireless). Both my
Jun 3rd 2004nerd alert
Total internal reflectance: Depth resolution because the evanescent wave disappears after a couple hundred nanometers.
Jan 22nd 2004nerd alert
Newsflash: Looks like Spirit’s not talking to NASA any more. Speculation in the lab is that Spirit and NASA are