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What a Weird World

Posted on June 4, 2009 by capnrefsmmat / 1 Comment

Deep in space, a fire burns. It is not an ordinary fire. It is the heat of uncountable gazillions of tiny pairs of protons and electrons being squished together...

Fun Stuff

Nerd Poetry

Posted on February 2, 2009 by capnrefsmmat / 0 Comment

This is what happens when you tell a nerd to write poetry. ‘Twas a warm summer day in La-La Land, Fields of grass swayed lazily in the breeze, The cool wi...

Fun Stuff

List of Loopiness

Posted on February 1, 2009 by capnrefsmmat / 1 Comment

Kommandant of commas Sultan of spelling Advocate of adverbs Adjutant of adjectives Savant of style King of correctness Guru of grammar Partisan of participles M...

SFN

WordPress Upgrade

Posted on January 28, 2009 by capnrefsmmat / 0 Comment

WordPress MU on blogs.scienceforums.net has now been upgraded to WordPress MU 2.7. You should notice that your admin screen has been drastically re-vamped and r...

Education

The Insanity

Posted on January 26, 2009 by capnrefsmmat / 0 Comment

You can tell there’s something wrong with our system of keeping GPAs based on class average — i.e. out of 100 instead of out of the 4-point scale &#...

computers

Authentication Sucks

Posted on January 10, 2009 by capnrefsmmat / 2 Comments

For a while I’ve been thinking about the classic Internet dilemma: authentication. For trust to work on the Internet, you need to (a) be able to verify th...

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It’s So Complexified

Posted on December 25, 2008 by capnrefsmmat / 2 Comments

I wonder if, twenty years from now, our computers will be amazingly simple intuitive touchscreen thingies like they always show on Star Trek, or ludicrously com...

Education/Math

Textbooks suck

Posted on November 19, 2008 by capnrefsmmat / 0 Comment

Today I was looking through my introductory calculus textbook* for no particular reason. Well, I say introductory, but I think that’s a particularly bad c...

music

Musical Complexity

Posted on October 28, 2008 by capnrefsmmat / 5 Comments

My family likes classical music. It’s just the way we are. I grew up listening to all sorts of classical composers, from Strauss to Gershwin, and I got us...

Life

Magic

Posted on October 12, 2008 by capnrefsmmat / 0 Comment

For the past year and a half, I’ve been a card magician. I started learning some basic sleight of hand techniques with cards and I’m now producing c...

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