Archive for the ‘achievement’ Category
Wednesday, February 1st, 2006
I saw this movie tonight and enjoyed it. It's worthy of a blog entry, but perhaps not worthy of being on my del.icio.us video links page. Anyway, this is an action movie with good dialogue and something to think about. I identified with Max, played by Jamie Foxx, who ...
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Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
My friend Andrew sent me the following obituary excerpt. Inspiring:
The New York Times, December 2, 1999
Phoebe Snetsinger, 68, Dies; Held Record for Bird Sightings
By Douglas MartinPhoebe Snetsinger, who saw and recorded more birds than anybody else, died on Nov. 23 in a van accident on a birding expedition to ...
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Tuesday, October 11th, 2005
This evening I attended a reception at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in association with the International Moonbase Conference. Impressive collection, which included SpaceShipOne. I also saw an I-Max film, Magnificent Desolation, in 3D no less, which was quite inspiring. It gave credence to the expression "if they can ...
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Saturday, July 30th, 2005
Jeffry Perren wrote this fine article about Jack Kilby, the inventor of the integrated circuit. Had Kilby not accomplished what he did, would someone else have? According to the Wikipedia (another fine creation) article linked above, an article about the IC was puiblished a few years before Kilby built the ...
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Thursday, April 21st, 2005
Had I posted this a few weeks ago, I might have used the word thesis, but Tyr informed me that dissertation refers specifically to a PhD. Anyway, an academic journal has accepted for publication what will become chapter 3 (of 6) of my dissertation, "not counting the mezzanine," ...
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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005
To observe the 100th Anniversary of Ayn Rand's birth, Alex and I attended a lecture by John Stossel at the University of Denver. Stossel is a hero of mine that I have now met. And he signed a poster I helped design for a Campus Libertarians event a ...
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Wednesday, January 19th, 2005
My friend Duff told me about this guy. He apparently had too many clients (he's a dentist), so he "fired" the ones he did not like (class C), and required existing clients (class A) to refer new clients to him as a condition for continuing the relationship. Amazing ...
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Wednesday, January 19th, 2005
My advisor has informed me that two published articles have sited my 2003 paper in JOSA B, my first article: (prepare for long titles) "Propagation in and scattering from a matched metamaterial having a zero index of refraction" and "Frequency-dependent envelope finite-element time-domain analysis of dispersion materials". The second ...
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Wednesday, January 12th, 2005
She has what is described as a high-functioning autism such that she, to some extent, things in images. I heard part of an interview with her on NPR, and maybe it's about time I hear the rest.
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Friday, December 3rd, 2004
On Wednesday I got into the lotus position in yoga class, and more importantly, I got out of it. So that's progress. My trip back East for Thanksgiving was nice. My brother plays in a slow-pitch softball league that does not use a mat for the strike ...
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