Monthly Archives: July 2010

Blog posts have been sparse recently, mostly just because I’ve been working hard. I’ve been working on a lot of things, especially work: I was in lab until midnight last night. I’ve redesigned my motion phantom setup so that it … Continue reading →

My apartment is full of leftover public food, some perishable and some not. Much of it dates to roommates who didn’t take everything with them. I hate waste, so I occasionally try to do something about it, by eating it … Continue reading →

A friend and I spent an hour last night fighting with a live USB boot system. We were using the venerable Unetbootin (who names these things?) to turn liveCD ISOs into live USB sticks, then booting them to install to … Continue reading →

The Senate has officially agreed with the White House to scrap the Ares rockets, and by extension the rest of Constellation. So far, so good. Instead, they’ve decided to fund NASA to make a Shuttle-Derived Heavy Lift Vehicle (i.e. really … Continue reading →

Another small milestone today: I got my first demo of live transverse motion tracking working. That means I acquired a training ultrasound data set, processed it to extract the path topology, generated a lookup table mapping ultrasound lines to (topological) … Continue reading →

Ask the Supreme Court! I think it’s pretty remarkable how stable our language is, that the linguistic discrepancy in question is unchanged and unresolved after 117 years. Perhaps it would be different if the court had ruled the other way.

My parents bought a scanner for family photos about 4 years ago, an Epson Perfection 3490. It was unused for years, and when we tried to scan in a new album XSane reported an I/O Error and died. The Windows … Continue reading →

There’s an amazing phenomenon occurring on YouTube, just beneath the surface of the zeitgeist: a profusion of music videos in American Sign Language. Specifically, these are videos where someone has taken the lyrics of the music and translated them, with … Continue reading →

Humans can survive when the ambient temperature exceeds core temperature by using evaporative cooling (i.e. sweating) to cool the body below ambient. This only works if sweat evaporates though, which requires less than 100% relative humidity. I’ve often wondered: what … Continue reading →

I am 25 years old. Everyone asks how it feels, and I’ve been contemplating that occasionally, as I spent the day doing chores around the apartment. It feels like I am no longer ahead of schedule. No longer especially young … Continue reading →