November 2009
1 post
September 2009
10 posts
Outside the Sheldonian. http://yfrog.com/2oauwoj
On my way to a lecture by Michael Palin! No idea what he’ll be talking about…
I have just mowed the lawn with the strangest mowing contraption I have seen. Looks like a cross between a car and a hovercraft.
At the risk of being way behind the times: Monkey Island for iPhone!
Wore a new pair of leather dress shoes all around. Feet hurt so much by the time I got back I walked the 1k from bus to home barefoot!
iTunes 9 and Win 7 play nicely: http://bit.ly/ZQg1W
This man is a carnival hero. http://yfrog.com/0357014745j
There about a buhjillion pubs named The Kings Arms in England. Never been to one I didn’t like
Camoflage: http://yfrog.com/7ht1koj
Gardener’s Arms with the new housemates. Not sure which one, though!
August 2009
9 posts
Jerk me SAJENTOPEPPA must be stopped. http://www.translationparty.com/#1957688
Chateau Grayskull is empty save me. End of an era… http://bit.ly/1ZdHTA
Scotch whisky and packing.
put a bottle of IRN-BRU (which contains quinine) into a UV laser to see fluorescence. Not nearly as cool as I wanted it to be.
Off to London to meet Radha and co.
http://yfrog.com/0l2o6j. Alice made a cake to celebrate us getting a “new qubit” experiment working in the lab!
Every new thing I try to do in Mathematica makes me like it more than MATLAB.
very long day in the lab. Almost don’t want to go to Corsica two weeks from now for fear my experiment won’t work when I get back!
A new source of magnetic field noise has made it’s way into my experiment. I blame the people above me.
July 2009
19 posts
Old school air-gap variable capacitor in hacked-together box. Experimental physics FTW! http://yfrog.com/6wp8gj
Saw a man in a mustard suit, high-crown white fedora, and a cravat ( sadly no pic) —the quirky pleasures of Oxford
http://yfrog.com/epd1cj beamsplitter glowing as ~120 mW of ultraviolet laser light passes through it.
chkdsk… I choose you!
So we meet again, memtest-86.
Now my laser beam profiler in the lab doesn’t work. #FML
Desktop compy is now unbootable. Well, my day’s off to a lousy start…
http://twitpic.com/avn87 - time.com (http://bit.ly/vCszv) refers to a “Microsoft computer.” It’s clearly a Macintosh.
Also. ZOMBIES! #l4d
Micro-financing on http://kiva.org
dinner at The Big Bang, then off to see Harry Potter
diagonalizing perturbation matrices.
RT @mattmcd …found the Starship dimensions page instead: http://www.merzo.net/ - still a win!
anyone for #l4d tonight?
just got a Google Voice invite. <sigh> …living in Britain.
Dear winemakers: screw-caps! Your high horse is made of cork.
(I think) I have triumphed over polarization.
This is happening. http://tinyurl.com/lonnr8
5 kg of charcoal. 2.5 kg of ground beef. It’s on.
June 2009
16 posts
firefox 3.5.
Watching Fight Club. it’s been too long…
Finally fixed the WiFi in the basement lab. Should no longer blackout on IM during the day.
I’m beginning to suspect that I have cracked a rib.
now unlocking/jailbreaking my old iPhone.
On the other hand, the wall-charger is the new hottness. http://tinyurl.com/ncj9rw
what? The new iPhone 3GS doesn’t come with a cradle?
Oxford Cobbler in the covered market fixed my shoe in about 90 seconds — no charge. Even had me put the tip in the charity collection jar!
birds bring pebbles up to my roof. I know this because they sometimes drop them against my window. What are they building up there?!
have any IM apps that use the iPhone 3.0 “Push” been released yet?
#iPhone3 network activation is timing out. Even more annoying that it leaves it in non-working condition until Apple sort their shit out.