http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2010/12/epic-discovery-nasa-discovers-new-non-dna-based-life-form-to-be-annouced-at-2-pm-est.html
― max, Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:47 (thirteen years ago) link
whoa
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:49 (thirteen years ago) link
rad!
― caek, Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:51 (thirteen years ago) link
so cool
― max, Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:51 (thirteen years ago) link
here we go!
― gospermaban sim gishel (acoleuthic), Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:52 (thirteen years ago) link
trending right now #gävlegoat #arsenic
― caek, Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:53 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57PENuNVapc&feature=related
― caek, Friday, 3 December 2010 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
so fucking cool
― I love you girls but that music is for radical faeries (Matt P), Friday, 3 December 2010 15:34 (thirteen years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4Oy_7FFvAeg/Sun71WaOgWI/AAAAAAAAFuE/MSgPNQt8O3A/s400/Arsenic+mouth+stuff+www.amazingribs.com+cary_grant.jpg
― I love you girls but that music is for radical faeries (Matt P), Friday, 3 December 2010 15:37 (thirteen years ago) link
hey caek do you think this is a cool graphic why or why not thx love yr stuff
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2445/4002050596_0c2b6c4dd2_o.jpg
― kanellos (gbx), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 00:33 (thirteen years ago) link
it's amazing data, but the graphic itself is (1) kind of confusing imo (2) loses the opportunity to lay down some serious multi-dimensionality (see VDQI by tufte for details)
the voyager mission is probably my favourite thing re: human space exploration.
― caek, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 04:48 (thirteen years ago) link
via this discussion:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jan/09/giant-magellan-telescope-robin-mckie
― caek, Sunday, 9 January 2011 14:46 (thirteen years ago) link
http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/images/hs-2011-06-a-large_web.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/2K5rH.gif
― caek, Friday, 18 February 2011 08:39 (thirteen years ago) link
via
― caek, Friday, 18 February 2011 08:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Cox's Wonders Of The Universe (4 parts, first part was on BBC HD yesterday and is on BBC 2 in England tomorrow) : C/D ?(I'll probably just order the blu-ray if they make one)
― StanM, Monday, 7 March 2011 18:16 (thirteen years ago) link
if you can deal with the brian cox and the top gear test report style "CINEMATOGRAPHY" then everything he says is pretty solid, i think.
― caek, Monday, 7 March 2011 22:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Although he got to it eventually he got my back up by saying there was no physical law that prevented a glacier from reconstituting itself. Nothing in classical mechanics says it can't happen by thermodynamics certainly has something to say on the matter. Are these not physical laws or are they devalued because us engineers came up with them?
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 7 March 2011 22:17 (thirteen years ago) link
hey caek i cant find your email--do you want to give an official comment on this
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/22/us-venezuela-chavez-mars-idUSTRE72L61D20110322?
― max, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 02:53 (thirteen years ago) link
"chavez otm"
― caek, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 18:30 (thirteen years ago) link
haha that is an amazing article
― caek, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 18:31 (thirteen years ago) link
"Careful! Here on planet Earth where hundreds of years ago or less there were great forests, now there are deserts. Where there were rivers, there are deserts," Chavez said, sipping from a glass of water.
haha i wish you had been around last night, i wanted to quote you in my post on the subject
― max, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 18:40 (thirteen years ago) link
"Chavez OTM," said an astrophysicist familiar with the history of class struggle on Mars.
the best part about the article is the reuters editor going "hmm, this isnt long enough... can we bring in a couple paragraphs about mars missions?"
― max, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 18:41 (thirteen years ago) link
haha if you can do a follow up i would be literally thrilled to be quoted on this! seriously, my parents would be so happy.
― caek, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 18:42 (thirteen years ago) link
next time i have a good article about economics on other planets ill solicit a quote
― max, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 18:43 (thirteen years ago) link
i actually read the article last night and tried to think of a comment, but i was really drunk on 241 beer and couldn't make any sense of it. i missed my chance! THANKS jjj and goole.
― caek, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 18:45 (thirteen years ago) link
your one shot at fame
― max, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 18:47 (thirteen years ago) link
i added you on facebook so you can reach me quickly for future leftists/planetary issues
― caek, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
wait did you dudes go to the t rock?
― FUN FUN FUN FUN (gbx), Thursday, 24 March 2011 01:40 (thirteen years ago) link
yes! our server had a face tattoo and i drunk surly! it was a magical mpls adventure.
― caek, Thursday, 24 March 2011 04:09 (thirteen years ago) link
saw the tat face lady at 241s last night. forgot how crowded that place gets when the weather's nice.
caek,
what was your favorite part about mpls? when are you moving here? what neighborhood will you live in? rent in NE is v cheap iirc, but it as almost as isolated and barren as w st paul.
-gbx
― FUN FUN FUN FUN (gbx), Thursday, 31 March 2011 00:48 (thirteen years ago) link
(j/k jj wsp is dope as heck)
my favourite thing about mpls was mpls. i really liked it! some highlights were the birchwood cafe (fell in love with pretty much every waitress there) and also the fancy pants bar bit of "cafe and bar lurcat". the airport had a good vibe too, which is a useful litmus test for a town too ime.
re: when am i moving there? "it's complicated". i will know either way in a couple of weeks!
― caek, Thursday, 31 March 2011 04:45 (thirteen years ago) link
http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/texasfire042011/s_t01_00000001.jpg
The Texas Forest Service undertook controlled burns on Sunday, April 17, 2011 to get rid of fuel on the mountains around McDonald Observatory in the Davis Mountains of West Texas. Here, Black Mountain is burning. The Hobby-Eberly Telescope dome is at right. (Frank Cianciolo/McDonald Observatory)
― caek, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 20:03 (thirteen years ago) link
ey up caek, this sounds important and impressive and so on? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13462926
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Thursday, 19 May 2011 21:58 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah that's good work
― caek, Friday, 20 May 2011 10:49 (thirteen years ago) link
http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljgouzxixQ1qidrloo1_500.png
the smaller photo here is ngc891, which is the archetypal example of the kind of galaxy i did my phd on: edge-on galaxies with central bulges that are kind of boxy. these dude's know what's up.
― caek, Thursday, 26 May 2011 15:26 (thirteen years ago) link
caek is this what it looks like when you're on the grind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFpeM3fxJoQ
― dayo, Monday, 30 May 2011 01:36 (thirteen years ago) link
pretty much, but my observing gets done mostly in way less extreme locations, e.g. west texas
http://i.min.us/iwGYU.jpg
― caek, Monday, 30 May 2011 08:02 (thirteen years ago) link
excelsior
― mookieproof, Monday, 30 May 2011 08:04 (thirteen years ago) link
^^ pictures of people who seem to have figured out how to live imo
nice vid too dayo
― russ conway's game of life (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 30 May 2011 10:13 (thirteen years ago) link
all hail west texas :D
― now at least you know what old-school doctor who fans are like (Noodle Vague), Monday, 30 May 2011 11:36 (thirteen years ago) link
that observatory is the only place on UT land where you are allowed to drink alcohol without campus police present
― caek, Monday, 30 May 2011 12:57 (thirteen years ago) link
beat me to it
― cop a cute abdomen (gbx), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 03:23 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/fun-with-fysiks
aw yeah
In the United States, the job market for people with doctorates in physics collapsed around 1970, as the huge post-Sputnik expansion of American university hiring and military spending came to an abrupt halt. By the mid-1980s, things hadn’t improved much, and it seemed likely that my recent Ph.D. in theoretical physics would be of little use in finding conventional permanent academic employment. One possible career path that came to mind was to try to follow the example of a sizable group of physicists who lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area during the 1970s. They appeared to have managed to pursue scientific research by dropping out of academia and adopting a countercultural lifestyle that included soaking in hot tubs at Big Sur, engaging in Tantric sex, hanging out at North Beach cafes and taking psychedelic drugs. Some of them had gotten rich writing books that mixed physics with various kinds of mysticism. I wasn’t very interested in the mysticism part, but I figured I could handle the rest.For better or worse, I did end up moving to the Bay Area for a year, but as a respectable post-doc in mathematics I saw little or no evidence of the continued existence of these countercultural physicists, and I wondered what had happened to them. David Kaiser’s entertaining new book, How the Hippies Saved Physics, does a wonderful job of recounting the twists and turns of the story of how the members of this group came together, interacted with one another and with the more conventional physics community, and then dispersed to various fates.
For better or worse, I did end up moving to the Bay Area for a year, but as a respectable post-doc in mathematics I saw little or no evidence of the continued existence of these countercultural physicists, and I wondered what had happened to them. David Kaiser’s entertaining new book, How the Hippies Saved Physics, does a wonderful job of recounting the twists and turns of the story of how the members of this group came together, interacted with one another and with the more conventional physics community, and then dispersed to various fates.
― caek, Monday, 13 June 2011 22:06 (thirteen years ago) link
my observing run in australia started a couple of hours ago.
weather looks doooope
http://i.min.us/idHbYm.jpg
― caek, Monday, 27 June 2011 09:33 (twelve years ago) link
Wait... you're IN aus? or just controlling a 'scope, or?
― Bloompsday (Trayce), Monday, 27 June 2011 09:35 (twelve years ago) link
my colleagues are there driving the telescope and i am chiming in via email for the first night. i would love to have gone but it is only four nights. bit of a trek.
― caek, Monday, 27 June 2011 09:41 (twelve years ago) link
♥ clear skies ♥
― caek, Monday, 27 June 2011 09:47 (twelve years ago) link