I’ve started yet another endeavor to get my work organized into some system–or rather system of systems as it most often turns out to be. Recently the solutions for which I’m looking to find have to solve a problem that most people have and don’t realize. Most of my files and works were done by […]
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Presenting: Metabolic balance of coastal Antarctic waters revealed by autonomous pCO2 and ΔO2/Ar measurements
Today I presented and walked through a paper by Tortell et al. and figured I might as well include it as my Daily Dose since I’ve been shirking that commitment as of late. The paper is good and shows an aspect of research that will be important if my own work brings me down to Antarctica […]
Learning R
One aspect of graduate level work that most people  are unaware of, yet every graduate student knows, is the tedium of making “publication” quality charts and displays. Figuring out a decent method to show off your data in an elegant figure is essential if you would like your work respected. True, you can always fire […]
First Day of Graduate Life
Since I dread reading simple blow-by-blows, all I will say about my first day as a PhD student is that I’ve missed being a student and that I am exhausted! The end. Well I suppose that I should say a bit more than that.
Wild in Tallahassee, or the local chain movie theater
Tonight after my first full day since moving to Tallahassee I had some free time, so I decided to reward myself for getting some paperwork sorted out (as well as some other odds & ends taken care of). [ref]Note, how should I rearrange the grammatical arrangement of this sentence to fix the terminating preposition?[/ref] Since […]
Paper of Note: Fast, Minimum Storage Ray-Triangle Intersection
Introduction Raytracing is modern computer graphics technique used to render life-like images for videos and animations. While it’s a relatively modern technique–coinciding with the birth of digital modeling–the inspiration for the methods can be traced back to ancient Greece. While some Greeks truly believed that our eye’s emit the ability to see and not that our […]
Air plant openning
Take a look at a time-lapse I made today of an air-plant opening up and rehydrating. Sorry for the shoddy tripod.
The Old Dam Farm gets a logo
While we’re still working on the Old Dam Farm LLC and it’s homepage at OldDamFarm.com, I wanted to let you in our most recent step forward. Since no site is even halfway complete without a logo, I set myself the task of coming up with one (at least a temporary one). Anyone who knows me […]
Ultra Marathons: What and Why
Over the past few weeks I’ve discussed running and, in particular, the sort of running I’m most interesting in: Ultra-marathons. Whether it was on the subway, a date, or the random menagerie of folks I’ve come to be in conversation with recently, it doesn’t matter, I’ve carried out a similar discussion with each of them […]
If I were a farmer…
While checking out the latest headlines and otherwise perusing the PLOSONE site in search of some new and interesting research, I came across a meta-analysis that sounded interesting. With the provocative title of ‘A Meta-Analysis of the Impacts of Genetically Modified Crops’ [ref]Klumper and Qaim, A Meta-Analysis of the Impacts of Genetically Modified Crops. PLoS ONE 9(11): […]
JetDrive for Macs
With a recent incident involving me and my external hard drive, I’ve realized that I really need to improve my data backup system. Luckily I was able to save the drive and all the data on it, but there is no guarantee that I’ll be so fortunate next time. I’m one of those guys with […]
Cooking with Ian
As one of those experimental projects I like to try out every so often, I filmed Ian and myself cooking Pumpkin Cookies. While I had no real ambition for the top charts with this video, I wanted to try out something novel and enjoyable with my brother. Besides, it was a great opportunity to learn […]
Introducing the Daily Dose
Over the course of a day, my overactive mind shuffles around to a surprising variety of topics and articles, and most of these finds are lost to the wayside simply because I have nowhere to put them. The Daily Dose is my solution for this. By providing a dedicated stream and forum for these otherwise […]
Raman Spec in the Deep Ocean
Introduction Since I am sure that virtually no one outside of academia–and plenty of people within it–will have heard of a Raman Spec before, let’s start there. A Raman Spectrometer is an instrument that directs light onto a sample and then uses the light that returns as its basis of measurement. This is true of […]
Snippet — Removing Plaster at the Old Dam Farm
While nothing spectacular, here is a brief look at one of the least glamerous jobs I’ve been working on while at the farm. The old plaster has to go before we can run new lines, insulate and hang the drywall, so here I go:
Planning Ahead
With all that we have going on at the farm it is easy to lose focus on the larger picture of what possibilities of what this farmhouse actually represents. while dealing with stripping the plaster off the walls inside, shingling the exterior, and wiring in a whole system of new electrical plugs and switches, it […]
Biking around Warwick MA
While my ride yesterday wasn’t my first ride out on the roads by the farm, it was the first with my new Fenix 2 sport watch made by Garmin. My first impressions of the area’s friendliness on the roads were quite positive and I only wish the roads around the cape were so wide and […]
Minecraft Mods
Once again I found myself in a roll best categorized under the heading of “parent” as I strove to figure out how to install a mod on my brother’s game, minecraft. While this is certainly not a particularly novel arrangement as I am sure that numerous people have groped their way through such things before–especially […]
Peace Corps Interview Day
Today was, in my mind, the first real Peace Corps step. Rather than some electronic form and application that I had to fill out, today’s step was much more physical and concrete. Today was the day of my Peace Corps interview. The interview is well known and is expected to be both lengthy and involved […]
Complacency
All too often we let the satisfaction of living our lives the way we imagine to be relegated solely to our imaginations. While it is hard not to fall into the trap of claiming that we are too busy or our schedules don’t work out or that it costs too much, most of the time […]