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Category Archives: Submitted For Consideration
Almost Scientific’s New Header
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Look up there, see the new header? Like it? I’ll likely be changing it over the next few days. Let me know if there is a version you like most by leaving a comment.
Chalk Boards
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Whenever my graduate thesis adviser once told me “as soon as you start drawing lines in the air no one knows what they hell you are talking about.”
This was typically in response to someone in the lab elaborating a point by drawing an imaginary graph in the air with their fingers.
If you ever tried [...]
Almost Scientific now fully scientific
Friday, November 7, 2008
Hello all –
Almost Scientific has now officially emerged from hiatus. Thank’s for sticking around!
And yes, I passed my PhD thesis defense, and my thesis adviser was quick to point out that I’m now “Fully Scientific.”
But, Almost Scientific never had anything to do with my scientific work. The name actually applies specifically to my style of [...]
Decision and Elections
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Okay — I know I said I was on hiatus so I could focus on completing my thesis but this was too much to pass up.
I came across this op-ed piece in the New York Times today: Your Brains Secrete Ballot.
Here is a little snippet:
Neuroscientists have begun to tease out the brain systems that [...]
Almost Scientific on short hiatus
Monday, October 27, 2008
Hey folks –
You many have noticed that posts have gotten bit sporadic lately. Well, for the past few week I’ve been hunkered down preparing my PhD dissertation for my defense, which is on Nov 5th. So, at least until then, Almost Scientific will officially be on hiatus. When I return, I suppose I’ll [...]
The Baikonur Cosmodrome — A Russian Rocket City
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Follow the link below to some large and gorgeous photos of the Russian Rocket City in Kazakstan.
When NASA’s last scheduled Space Shuttle mission lands in June of 2010, the United States will not have the capability to get astronauts into space again until the scheduled launch of the new Orion spacecraft in 2015. Over those [...]
Christoper Pearson’s Digital Reliefs
Friday, September 26, 2008
Projecting high-pass filtered animations on stone walls to create animated reliefs … Nifty.
The Lumbering Contraption — Front Car
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Here are some of the latest shots of the hot-rod hamster-wheel of death (a.k.a - The Lumbering Contraption).
Let me ask you … does this look like something you would want picking your nose?
There were a bunch of people shooting video tonight as we gave it a test run down the track out front Louise Street [...]
The Internet Tells Lies
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
My last post on the Lumbering Contraption was featured on the Make blog where they noted that our Railcar was much like The Disgusting Spectacle ( a gloriously absurd work of art built by friends at NIMBY ). While it is true that they are both human powered and both involve a large metal wheel [...]
LHC Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment Webcams
Friday, September 12, 2008
Here are some live webcams from the LHC. A touch on the dull side (high energy physics is just not that exciting) but worth watching:
NIMBY Update 2
Friday, September 12, 2008
Bad.
Here is a photo of the core damage. See the burned out container with the door open and another container collapsed into it? Well right below that was my workspace:
The NIMBY webpage has been updated with the offical (and true) story:
Five years of good times, art, shows, parties, bull sessions, and fire came to an [...]
The Best Steampunk Photoshop Contest EVAH!!
Thursday, September 11, 2008
The Best Steampunk Photoshop Contest EVAH!!
NIMBY Update
Thursday, September 11, 2008
So it’s a good thing that I moved out of NIMBY when I did.
The fire was in the container directly above mine and it apparently damaged allot of the space I occupied only a week or so ago.
The word on the street is that NIMBY is dead.
The building and fire inspectors swarmed in today and [...]
Zoom
Sunday, August 31, 2008
I love the wind in the background.
“Beyond this nothing is visible … for the moment.”
Paris … New York … Shanghai … What’s the diffrence?
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Paris … New York … Shanghai … What’s the difference?
Of Man and Metal
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Fantastic. Beautiful.
From the Bldgblog post Library of Dust. Go and read the whole thing and see more fantastic images.
Also check out the photographers site with additional photos.
In 1913, Maisel explained, an Oregon state psychiatric institution began to cremate the remains of its unclaimed patients. Their ashes were then stored inside individual copper canisters [...]
Inflatable faeces raises a stink
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Inflatable faeces raises a stink
A giant inflatable dog turd brought down a power line after being blown away from a Swiss museum.
The artwork, entitled Complex Shit, was carried 200 metres on the night of 31 July, reportedly breaking a greenhouse window before it landed again.
The sculpture, by American artist Paul McCarthy, was equipped with [...]
The App is a work of Art …
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
I’m just catching up on this story about the I Am Rich app for the iPhone.
I first came across this post on Webmonkey and got some more details form the LA times.
Have you hear about this? So Armin Heinrich of Germany wrote a application for the iphone that cost $999.99.
What did it do? [...]
Kinetic Steam Works and The Swimmin Cities of Switchback Sea
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Over the past few months my good friends and collaborators in KSW have been restoring a beautiful, steam-powered paddle boat that they are going to piolt down the Hudson river in NY as part of the Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea project:.
Swimming cities of Switchback Sea is a flotilla of seven intricately hand crafted vessels [...]
Edgar Mitchell (aka Moonwalker) elaborates and I pontificate
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
The other day I did a quick post about Edgar Mitchell’s radio interview in which he claimed to have direct knowledge about UFO cover ups.
Well, he’s elaborated, clarified and expanded on his initial statements in this interview with the Discovery channel.
Now, while I am fairly sure that life is a ubiquitous phenomena in the the [...]
Find a parking spot in the Mission with your iPhone
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
I know I am tottaly behind the curve when it comes to these things but it was only the other day that I got to drive around SF with a G3 iphone. Using the GPS was very cool and handy (I get lost in my own apartment). We used the Yelp! app to find a [...]