311 roundup

i just came in to grab my bag - so i thought i'd drop a quick post...

it was a mistake wearing jeans today -- it's pretty hot and humid -- i'm sweating quite badly. what have i done today? came into work (as you know). played around with a skeleton Tkinter GUI to show crain (durham) and booth (durham) [homage to NPR there - did you notice it?] ... not sure what inputs they want to their omnipotent (and sure to become the de facto standard in the trade) volume rendering code, but it is fairly trivial to have anything. the one problem is that Tkinter doesn't look that slick, which i'm guessing is a major turn off. in the past i have done a similar thing in C/C++ (see this link for details) which looks much more professional. it's just a case of refreshing my memory on the whole thing. on the other had, the Tkinter interface would be very lightweight and easily modified in the future. hmmm. thoughts?

john came up with one of the most brilliant ideas i've ever heard on friday -- and i think is a real goer. it's virtually guaranteed to make money, but, ahem... requires a little outlay i feel. others arn't convinced, but i think it's a winner.

thats all for now... i'm off to clean my house and pack some boxes .

do you want a vision of the future?

...it's norris, incessantly berating you for your fashion faux pas. giant posters of norris plastered up on our decaying streets, with the smell of cabbage soup wafting on the fetid breeze. time to flush your clothes down the memory hole, because you can be sure he won't like them.

crank

astro-ph 0606369 -- submitted to 'undecided, but all rights reserved' -- the calling card of the crank. plus it's in word -> pdf or something.

oh yes

two things:

firstly, the TV thing i ordered for my mac should be here today... means we can watch 'proper' tv in the office. yes.

secondly, did anyone spot the crank paper on astro-ph today? claims it's by a prof at some university in US, but is clearly written in Word and bollocks...

at astrogrid today

improbable research

just come across this interesting and amusing blog: http://improbable.com/

comedy titles on astro-ph today

Can MOND take a bullet? Analytical comparisons of three versions of MOND beyond spherical symmetry

Abundance Anomalies in Galactic Globular Clusters - Looking for the Stellar Culprits

Be stars: one ring to rule them all?