A “cache machine” is geocaching social where someone sets up a route that people can follow to make a high number of geocache finds in a relatively short period of time. On Sunday, I attended one in Belfair, WA. Since Belfair is not too far from home, I planned on driving up the morning of. […]
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I’ve been researching date/time formats for inclusion in a software product, and wanted to share some of the thought processes involved.Use case: an engineer or scientist wants to plot something over some time period. All time periods are possible, so we must provide years down to minutes. For example, a coastal engineer surveyed said he:
King Neptune, outside Mardis Gras Land A few weeks ago, I spent a week in New Orleans at Supercomputing 2010. (Sometimes my job has perks.) I wrote a really long summary of this for internal use, but thought I’d share some of my notes: Jack Dongarra of Oak Ridge National Labs offered his perspective
John writes his thoughts about PC World’s “Best Tech Products for 2010” and asks about others’ intersections. Here are mine: #2 Apple iPad — to be honest, when it was announced, I didn’t really see the big deal. However, then I got an iPhone 4 (six months after ditching my Windows laptop for a MacBook
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NOAA had a very cool display at Supercomputing 2010 this year. I would like to think think Cliff Mass has one of these in his study: Fig 1:It’s a small thermal exhaust port, right below the main port. The shaft leads directly to the reactor system. A white sphere, suspended in the middle of the
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Last May, we took a long weekend to go dig fossils at the Stonerose Interpretive Center in Republic, WA. The fossils are from the Eocene epoch (about 50 million years ago), when eastern Washington was tropical. The city of Republic was part of an ancient lake. For a nominal fee ($6/person plus $4 for hammer
I had waaaay too much fun with this data visualization software… Sheet 1 Powered by Tableau (Note, you will need javascript enabled as there is an embedded scripty thingie. The controls aren’t ideal — mouse mode selection is on the bottom; to zoom out, use the shift key — but it excites me how little
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