Comments | athelind: I am a hoopier frood than Archimedes.

athelind

I am a hoopier frood than Archimedes.

Jul 31, 2010 15:05

As if to demonstrate that Life Goes On, I just had an Archimedes moment: I ran out of the shower, towel wrapped 'round my waist, shouting "EUREKA!"You see, I finally figured out a series of graphics that would explain to observers just what I was seeing in all that Elkhorn Slough data back in 2004-2005. I was trying to get a coherent article out ( Read more... )

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araquan August 1 2010, 13:41:48 UTC

Huzzah!

hafoc August 2 2010, 04:20:16 UTC

Nothing quite like the feeling of the lightbulb turning on, is there? Be sure to bring that "plug flow" into your write-up. That's just the sort of cross-disciplinary information that could be really useful.

athelind August 2 2010, 05:24:32 UTC

Yeah, that's exactly the kind of "hook" that takes a half-baked idea and turns it into the seed of a real thesis.

thoughtsdriftby did some further research, and thinks it's probably closer to "dune flow", which makes even more sense in this context.

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athelind August 2 2010, 16:08:14 UTC

Hence the subject header on the original post; old Archie didn't know where his towel was.

And I've already got a rough outline slapped together -- not to mention 11.5 GB of GIS data dumped onto the laptop from my desktop's hard drive.

(Alas, when I look at the cross-section data again, the dune flow isn't quite as overt as I remembered.)