I love a lot of things about our neighborhood, which is all pleasant tree-lined streets and stuff, but it’s not a great place for taking pictures of sunset– I pretty much need to get in the car to get to a place with a clear view of the western horizon. This knocks out a big… Continue reading 066/366: Sky Full of Fire
Month: November 2015
Union Jobs
Two positions of possible interest to academic job seekers: — First, we’re hiring again in the Union college Department of Physics and Astronomy: We invite applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position starting in September 2016, with a preference for an experimental physicist working in either biophysics or soft condensed matter. We encourage applications from… Continue reading Union Jobs
Energy Dissipation in a Physics Toy
A little while back, I used a photo of SteelyKid’s toy Newton’s cradle as the photo of the day, with a bonus video: I mentioned that I was going to do some analysis of this at some point, but didn’t have time right then. I had a bit of time to poke at this yesterday,… Continue reading Energy Dissipation in a Physics Toy
065/366: Owie, Owie, Owie
SteelyKid’s Elite Team taekwondo practice on Tuesday night was a “game night” because they had a belt test last week. The kids opted to play capture-the-flag against the parents, which ended up a tie (the adults won the first two games, the kids the second two), but the adult victories came at a price: This… Continue reading 065/366: Owie, Owie, Owie
064/366: Evil Sunrise
Another delayed photo-of-the-day, another photobombing: I think this pretty much speaks for itself: I was getting a photo of the colorful sunrise, and an evil squirrel ran across the power line. Which was a clear and obvious photo of the day.
063/366: Photobomber
ScienceBlogs had some back-end Issues for a few days, which delayed the photo-a-day project. This one’s from two days ago, when I was taking a picture of the bare branches of a tree next door because I liked the way they looked against the sky. I ended up with a high-altitude photobomb, though: I ended… Continue reading 063/366: Photobomber
062/366: Fun-Size Candy Mountain
Another busy day, so you get another kind of lazy shot. But, hey, everybody wants to know how the kids did trick-or-treating, right? So here’s The Pip’s share of the Halloween haul: I weighed both his plastic pumpkin full of candy and the Tupperware container that SteelyKid’s stuff is in, and they each came out… Continue reading 062/366: Fun-Size Candy Mountain
Ancillary Trilogy [Library of Babel]
The hot SF release of the fall is Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Mercy, concluding the Imperial Radch trilogy. The first of these, Ancillary Justice won a Hugo two years ago, and the second, Ancillary Sword should’ve won this past year, because I really didn’t like the Three-Body Problem. The release of Ancillary Mercy generated a ton… Continue reading Ancillary Trilogy [Library of Babel]