March 2011
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Progress.
Three week non-stop working spree all for this moment:
Project manager review meeting for turnover with the owner, general contractor and owner’s representative. No yelling, shouting or crying.
Success.
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Human Statue WIN.
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Science Relevance Map... →
This figure (interactive on google maps) shows the relevance of a city’s contribution to science (this map is physics) based on links to citations in papers.
Inspecting the maps raises questions on several levels such as how language affects citations and the effects of isolated communities of researchers who cite each other’s work but do not make references outside of their...
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Project Woes
Using a soldering iron to fix sensors on in the field today. Yet another fantastic curve ball at the bottom of the ninth inning, here…
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Discovery's Final Landing →
Mission accomplished!
The beginning of the end of an incredible era in the American space program…
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How to Charge your Phone →
I had no idea. Apparently re-charging a partially charge lithium ion battery is better than using full-empty charge cycles. Also, the worst condition for a battery:
The worst condition is keeping a fully charged battery at elevated temperatures, which is the case when running a laptop on the power grid.
Definitely changing my habits as of tonight…
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