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I'm working on my blog.
I’m an aspiring physicist, tinkerer, hacker and prankster.
Interests: blogs, macs, diy, physics, electronics, gardens, making things up
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Re: notifications. Can't you turn off banners and sounds in ios settings > notifications >hangouts? AFAIK, this should keep updating the badges.
Commented May 28, 2013 on google hangouts is almost what i want at abe hassan | blog
google hangouts is almost what i want
Google's notion of bringing its Voice, Chat/Talk, Hangouts, and related products all under the umbrella of "Google Hangouts" is awesome. The way in which those tools were integrated into the rest of the Google ecosystem was pretty haphazard (why can I place a call from Gmail but not from Google ...
Thanks for the update Matt - is there a good wrap up for that particular pixelation issue that I can read?
Commented Aug 20, 2012 on LIGO Should Detect Gravity Waves by 2017 at Fine Structure
LIGO Should Detect Gravity Waves by 2017
The LIGO sensors are getting upgrades in sensitivity that will help them observe gravitational waves - if gravitational waves exist, of course. Kip Thorne is perhaps the foremost expert on these kinds of waves that are theorized to distort space time as they travel outwards from huge gravitation...
Thanks for the note Eric!
Commented Jun 12, 2012 on Can you spot the Venus transit with a phone camera? at Fine Structure
Can you spot the Venus transit with a phone camera?
A friend posted this image on twitter during the early part of the Venus transit today. Note the white dot in the lens flare on the bottom right. I think it's pretty awesome that the transit can make it into a somewhat normal picture during the day, however I'm not completely
Keep me in the loop for Utah, I will be at moscone all next week as well.
Commented Jun 9, 2012 on Forehead Time at hello typepad
Forehead Time
Apple bloggers are all atwitter over the apparently significant amount of unannounced ("TBA)" conference sessions at Apple's annual dorkapalooza (WWDC) next week. I am attending this year1 and so I too have wondered, what is TBA? I have some ideas. Facetime will finally be Facetime, not Forehe...
Thanks for the response Engineer Guy!
Commented Jun 5, 2012 on The Engineer Guy: How a Laser Works at Fine Structure
The Engineer Guy: How a Laser Works
I think the topic of lasers has bested the Engineer Guy. He's usually great with explanations, demos and animations that clearly explain what he's talking about and he hits a few spot on: the ruby demo is excellent and the glow-in-the-dark ball is a nice way to link the topic to something that p...
I shouldn't have left that window open when I went to get a drink...
Commented Jan 11, 2012 on Beautiful Gemini Mission Photos at Fine Structure
Beautiful Gemini Mission Photos
Wired Science has a selection of high quality Gemini photographs from the ten missions in '65 and '66 curated from a larger collection just brought online through Arizona State University. Most of the images in the archive are downright boring due to the experimental nature of the flights themse...
I appreciate the comment Tim, but you should probably disclose that you're the one who's attempting to build that fusion reactor.
Commented Aug 12, 2011 on How To Build A Fusion Reactor at Fine Structure
How To Build A Fusion Reactor
While I can't say for sure that this is definitely going to work, this is the real, high-power type of fusion reaction, not crackpot-y cold fusion. I should go on to state that it's also not plans for a self-sustaining reaction, since that would solve quite a few global power issues. However, if...
Been listening to this for the past week, it's good!
Commented Jun 20, 2011 on Letting Up Despite Great Faults at The Winter Webb
Letting Up Despite Great Faults
With such a descriptive and meandering name, "Letting Up Despite Great Faults" gives "Pains of Being Pure at Heart" a run for its money and are likely rued by marquee workers everywhere. The musical styles are different but the tone of both are a kind of ambiguous bittersweet nostalgia for love...
Crackpot.
Commented Apr 26, 2011 on Higgs and New Physics Rumors at Fine Structure
Higgs and New Physics Rumors
Peter Woit on the newest "internal memo" from CERN. Incredibly early findings from the LHC that suggest that the Higgs is at 115 GeV but there's a ton of other stuff that wasn't expected if that is actually the case. Moral: don't always trust internal memos. Physics has become almost as bad as A...
That looks like one serious loofa. Did you need to license it to bring it back into the states?
Commented Feb 22, 2011 on Full on loofa at The Winter Webb
Full on loofa
Normally loofa you see in the store is cut into smaller segments. Got this unaltered, full size loofa in Belize last week and gonna take it for a test drive! So much exfoliation power!
Calculating the radius of an impact crater? It looks like it depends on the velocity and radius of the meteor, angle of impact and... g? I doubt its the gravitational constant (usually uppercase G) but there should be something in there for the density of the meteor, maybe g is related to that.
Commented Dec 14, 2010 on Never ending math equation at The Winter Webb
Never ending math equation
Saw this on the side of a U-Haul truck this morning: I have a guess, but can anyone definitively say what this equation represents? Bonus points; without googling do you know where the title of this post comes from?
To clarify, antimatter currently takes more energy to produce than it releases in a matter-antimatter reaction so it's a net energy loss. However, I don't think it's fair to say that it could never be used to produce net-positive power. Maybe we'll find a cheap way to produce antimatter in the future.
Commented Nov 21, 2010 on Antihydrogen Trapped and Studied at Fine Structure
Antihydrogen Trapped and Studied
Researchers at CERNs ALPHA experiment have managed to trap a number of antihydrogen atoms (that is, an antiproton and positron) for an unheard of amount of time. 170ms may not sound like a long time to you, but it's quite a bit of time in the world of the very very small. Though antimatter is
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Zero doubt that you'll kick ass at it. Whatever it is.
Commented Oct 26, 2010 on Less talk, more rock at markpasc
Less talk, more rock
I've been trying to rationalize the decision, but it's clear what feels right to me. With the dissolution of Six Apart into the Say Media cocktail, I choose not to follow in the new adventure of some great people I've worked with during, in a few cases, all 6½ years I've been with the company. W...
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Eccentricity in IE9
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Now I need a cluster of cpus so I can run all the js I write in every browser in multiple ways.
Commented Aug 18, 2010 on JSPerf.com - [this is good] at Internet O'Clock
JSPerf.com - [this is good]
JSPerf.com is a site designed to aid in benchmarking JavaScript snippets to help determine which solution is the most efficient. The results can kind of eye opening. As an example, I picked a random test that was written to test the speed of various frameworks' selection engines. Results are bel...
REPEAT ALL
Most of the time I just forget about Last.fm and their unending pile of data on almost any imaginable band, but the narcissistic historian in me really likes them for another reason. Last.fm has, for the most part, kept record of every track I've played in iTunes for almost five... Continue reading
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