Thursday, January 7, 2010
No, this post isn’t Star Trek related. It’s about SCIENCE!
I realize that the real world makes a lot of things difficult for those who collect data. Consider this, then, a gripe list of things I may or may not expect to get fixed.
Moving on, I work on computer models to better understand physical [...]
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
I have never, in my 20 year history of computing, ever come across a bit of software as remarkably terrible as ArcGIS. Ever.
That is all.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Welcome to the fun and glamorous side of computers!
- my Dad, whenever I was frustrated with progress bars as a child
ESRI, makers of ArcMap: Why, oh why, can’t you at least multi-thread ArcMap. Or make it 64-bit. Or *something*. I’m severely not a fan of ArcMap taking 5,000 years to complete [...]
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I’ve been using Windows 7 a lot lately. In fact, I’ve taken to bringing my dual boot MacBook from home to work every day as I find myself hunched over the small thing most of the time doing work. It has a smaller keyboard, wireless network (as opposed to 1 Gbps ethernet), and a 13” [...]
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, October 25, 2008
When I listen to Rihanna’s “Shut Up and Drive”, instead of hearing “I’m a fine-tuned supersonic speed machine,” I hear:
I’m a fine-tuned super finite state machine
Does this mean I’m a nerd?
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
I work professionally as a programmer at an atmospheric science department at a major university. One of the biggest things about atmospheric research is our reliance on computers for everything. While we’re nowhere near the limit of what we can do with observational data (and indeed in many areas, observational data is woefully [...]
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
I’ve always enjoyed the UI of Opera’s desktop browser. Computers should work how I expect them to, and not vice versa, and Opera tends to operate just how I think a web browser should. Firefox has been catching up pretty decently as of late, and after trying Google Chrome, I think that’s a [...]
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