Logical Quotation Style
Posted by Qrystal on June 24, 2009 at 17:44.
Category: Concepts. Tags: .
It is counter-intuitive … to mutilate literal strings with characters that don’t belong in them.
— Some #funwithgrammar from a guide to hackers’ writing style, which describes how some quirks are for the sake of humour but others are for the sake of clarity.
Here, we are exploring an aspect of [...] Continue Reading…
Fears in Peripheral Vision
Posted by Qrystal on June 24, 2009 at 1:11.
Category: Life. Tags: thesis.
When something is faced head-on, you can often find that it’s nowhere near as big as you thought it was when it was only in your peripheral vision.
— A quote from Catherine Cantieri’s ebook entitled, “How to Harness a Hobgoblin: The #1 Strategy to Unleash Your Creative Productivity” available [...] Continue Reading…
Giggling away crankiness
Posted by Qrystal on June 19, 2009 at 12:57.
Category: Life. Tags: .
At risk of giving TMI (ah, but who cares, really?) this xkcd comic was particularly appropriate for me this week (yeah, yeah, I know, the comic is almost two weeks old… I’m behind in reading my feeds, but I’m okay with that!). Thankfully, I read it when I [...] Continue Reading…
Beer cozies
Posted by Qrystal on June 4, 2009 at 1:43.
Category: Advice. Tags: beer, camping, fun.
In doing some research for my Northern Ontario trip, I came across the following awesomeness:
Beer can cozies, put to the test! The main takeaway:
“Depending on their material, beer can cozies can be effective in keeping beer cool even in extremely hot weather. The two cozies that performed the best [...] Continue Reading…
Accepting twitter changes
Posted by Qrystal on May 13, 2009 at 20:58.
Category: Miscellany. Tags: twitter.
…a new [twitter] feature which will give folks far more control over what they see from the accounts they follow. This will be a per-user setting and it will take a bit longer to put together but not too long and we’re already working on it.
— From the Twitter [...] Continue Reading…
Relativity and its non-paradoxes
Posted by Qrystal on May 13, 2009 at 11:27.
Category: Concepts. Tags: physics, relativity.
The Clock Paradox illustrates how relativity theory does indeed contain inconsistencies that make it scientifically problematic.
So says Dr Peter Hayes, a senior lecturer in politics (yes, politics), as quoted in an article at Science Centric entitled
“Has Einstein failed physics?”
I am getting really sick and tired of people trying to [...] Continue Reading…
Stop Wasting Time on the Internet
Posted by Qrystal on May 11, 2009 at 19:23.
Category: Advice. Tags: .
I just found wrongcards: ecards that are wrong for every occasion and I really, really think that this particular one is sending me a very powerful message. I’m just not sure what it is…
Many of the cards here actually made me want to send ecards to some friends [...] Continue Reading…
Loopholes in quantum entanglement?
Posted by Qrystal on May 6, 2009 at 12:32.
Category: Life. Tags: entanglement, thesis.
We have been told that experiments agree with all the predictions of quantum theory, including those that involve the impossible – the Bell test experiments, that are supposed to show totally incomprehensible effects of separated particles on each other.
— Caroline Thompson
In working on my thesis, I realized I wanted [...] Continue Reading…
Just Like My Computer Desktop…
Posted by Qrystal on May 5, 2009 at 16:04.
Category: Life. Tags: computer, thesis.
Oh. My. Gosh. PHD Comics creator Jorge Cham knows what MY Computer Desktop looks like!! I especially liked the section entitled, “Papers you’ve been meaning to read for months.” I have five of those… :)
Morse Code Haiku
Posted by Qrystal on April 27, 2009 at 11:24.
Category: Poetry. Tags: .
/ -.-. …… .-. … / … .- — ..- . .-.. / — —- .-. … . -.-.— /
/ -.— —- ..- .-. / -.-. —- -.. . / —- ..-. / -.. —- – … / .- -. -.. / -.. .- … …. . … /
/ [...] Continue Reading…