I found the faucet in my lab at school dripping this morning. I guess some air got in the pipes and a bubble formed. Each new drip was forming on the bottom of the bubble until it fell off. Fun accidental physics!
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Water Drip
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
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Monday, October 27th, 2008Voltron retrieving:
Work Buddy
Sunday, October 26th, 2008As a computational astrophysicist, I can work pretty much wherever there is an internet connection (except the San Diego public library, but that’s another story), so at least a day or two a week I work from home. And when I do, I have a little work buddy who sits by my chair waiting for me to throw a foam ball across the apartment so she can fetch it (seriously!). I try to ignore her so I can get work done, but as soon as I even look at her:
She’s cuter than my work buddies at school, of course.
The Experiments End
Saturday, October 4th, 2008
My beard experiment has ended. As part of the journey, I did an experimental time lapse, above. As you will see, I slowly shaved my beard and rotated the chair. I should have thought more about exposure consistency between frames. Doing it inside would have worked better but I thought the outside view was more interesting.
I admit that a few hours later I am still occasionally reaching up to stroke my beard, and finding nothing there.
I took a break when my mustache was in full flight and posed with Melissa. As you can tell by her expression, she loved the ’stache.
Mini-Vacation – Monterey Bay Aquarium
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008Yesterday, Melissa and I visited the Monterey Bay Aquarium. We were met there by my brother Adam and his lady friend Shinji, who not coincidentally decided to also see the aquarium on the same day. The aquarium has expanded since my last visit. There is now a northern wing that has fresh water otters, an “outer bay” tank and a seahorse exhibit (that was under construction, sadly). More than the last time I was there (or maybe I was too young to pay attention to things not cute), the aquarium really pushes conservation and ethical seafood consumption. They have a set of cards you can carry to help guide seafood and sushi purchases in stores and restaurants.
But what about the cute animals? (These links go to movies.) Fresh water otters gamboling! Feeding the penguins! A huge wolf eel in the kelp forest tank!
There are lots more photos here.
Tags: conservation, cute, fish, kelp, Monterey Bay Aquarium
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