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Go Beavers
I'm off to Oregon State, OK that's not quite true yet but I'll be there in July. They have a Tsunami tank and a Wave Channel that's big enough to surf in. I'm tentatively assigned to Bill Smyth who is a modeler. I've already started peppering him with questions. Out of impatience I downloaded an oceanography textbook and I was kind of amazed by ( Read more... ) -
Welcome to Miami, Bienvenido a Miami
I'm flying out to visit my last school (Univ. of Miami) tomorrow night. Gotta love the 9pm-5am red eye flight, though on the plus side it's a direct flight. After my visit to OSU I'm not as smitten with UW. UW as an institution seems to better mirror my views but on the research side OSU more closely matches what I think I want. The way things ( Read more... ) -
I quit my job
Today I put in notice at Mt. S.A.C. that I will not be teaching there after June 2008. Univ of Washington (Obviously I've changed my mind on the news blackout) promised to pay for people if they want to come early and I'm assuming (make ass jokes here) that the other schools will do the same. No turning back now! On the plus side moving earlier ( Read more... ) -
Graduate School Ranking
I'm starting to get a trickle of news from schools. The details will be withheld until I make a decision to prevent biasing schools that have yet to contact me. The few people I've talked to have made me feel that my shotgun approach will give me an embarrassment of riches. I applied to nine schools because I wasn't sure what my odds of ( Read more... ) -
Graduate School News
I got my first letter from a grad school last weekend. It was neither an acceptance nor a rejection. I was recommended for acceptance at the University of Maryland, College Park pending my finding an adviser willing to sponsor me. I sent e-mails to seven people at UMD last weekend. Today I called the three people who responded to my request ( Read more... ) -
I like free...
and hopefully so will my students. I remember the annoyances of plotting and fitting data in Origin and KaleidaGraph for all my lab reports and having to negotiate with the Mudd key server and eventually giving up and going down to the computer lab. The current pedagogy at Mudd favors KaleidaGraph and Excel for fitting and data manipulation ( Read more... ) -
Cross-cultural goodness
Benefits of being me? Cafe con leche y peanut-butter and jelly is a normal snack
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geeky but...
So my web server has a hardware random number generator which I used to make a password generator. Take a peek if you want a random password or if you want to look at php code. -
The MTA canceled my class
So for my birthday i bought myself a bus pass and have been taking the bus to my Santa Ana College gig. I get to do grading and well I'm cooler than most everyone else in Southern California. OK I already am since the least efficient vehicle I have ever owned is my 40mpg 1985 Honda civic (previously owned by Chuck and Cari) but now I am looking ( Read more... )
