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Data to Desktop

Wallaby — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:35:57 +0000

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 [...]

Physics for the rest of us

Wallaby — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 21:08:28 +0000

I’m a chemist. I’ve had a total of two years of physics classes in my life, one of which was in high school.

A whole new set of jokes

Wallaby — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 02:41:58 +0000

Went to seminar this morning. A physics seminar, that apparently was almost all theory (along the lines of “these

sellout

Wallaby — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 23:46:56 +0000

Some nice undergrad from my alma mater called me up this week for an alumni fund-raising drive. Uh-oh. Well, I’d

Stealing our thunder

Wallaby — Fri, 22 Oct 2004 00:09:49 +0000

There’s a pretty fine line between physics and chemistry, especially certain types of physics and chemistry. Always

More work ramblings

Wallaby — Wed, 19 May 2004 19:45:00 +0000

Sitting here waiting for the mounting resin to cure for another experiment gives me time to ponder. This is the first

It’s not just me.

Wallaby — Tue, 04 May 2004 20:39:00 +0000

Overheard a couple professors on the bus. They were discussing how to use that great obscure software package Excel.

Turns out I don’t know a thing

Wallaby — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 21:36:00 +0000

Analytical chemistry is about making tools to measure stuff to see what it’s made of. Tools are based on