Friday, February 13, 2009
Looking through my collection of papers, I noticed something today: nearly everything I do at work starts with “C” Carbon-nitrogen Cycle modeling Crop growth modeling Climate generation Coding Climate modeling … the only outlier is the letter B for Biofuels.
I’ve always liked the song Beds Are Burning by the Australian rock band Midnight Oil. The Oils have a unique sound that caught me early on, listening to Chicago’s WXRT radio that my dad has running whenever there’s a stereo with power. Right, then. Let’s start with the original. Now, in 2004, a europop group [...]
Saturday, February 7, 2009
…everything breaks down. Last week involved a lot of things that involved a lot of brainpower on my part. I had to do a tricky interpolation of a dataset, get a multi-directory, F77/F90 source dependency generator working, re-factor a bunch of F77 I/O into some F90 that I can then wrench around to do as [...]