personal and professional notes from a naive chemistry professor
Aug 9th 2007eyes & nerd alert
One of the more interesting things to do with data – at least certain types of data – is to look at it. As the “Small World” Photomicrography competition puts it, “…a good photomicrograph is also an image whose structure, color, composition, and content is an object of beauty, open to several levels of comprehension [...]
Jul 28th 2007eyes
Had a nervous little visitor sleeping on my window sill the other morning – he didn’t stay long after I
Jun 14th 2007eyes & General & nerd alert
One trouble with the Nikon CoolPix L12 that my sister got initially (see the last post) was that it was a little too quick to boost the CCD sensitivity to compensate for very low light. It only got into that mess because the lens is so small – I know, I know, you can’t put [...]
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 [...]
May 15th 2007eyes & nerd alert
Trying to update more often but there’s a few other things on my mind right now. Like the invisible eyelash poking
Feb 14th 2007eyes
One of the coolest pictures I’ve seen in a long long while: here