While ITA Software doesn’t allow you to purchase directly from their flight search, they do provide a nice airfare search and grid view where you can see mapped out in time how much of the day the flight and associated layovers will take. Pretty neat.
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Purdue has decided to take some “action”, developing means to notify campus in case of emergency. This basically means nothing new will be done, well, other than the creation of a facebook group. I am not quite sure how a facebook group is going to help me be better informed unless I am addicted to and logged on to facebook 24/7….oh ok…yeah I get it. This is just Purdue thinking they are outside the box, but they are still very much inside the box. Innovation might be to collect cell phone numbers through a web page to send emergency notification emails, or even working with cell phone providers to see how broadcast text messaging might be a form of civil defense preparedness, but we get email, a facebook group and some tornado sirens (note to potential attackers: they’re all in the basement)…ho-hum.
See the letter below.
The Guardian goes after the approach to the “war on terra” that the Bush administration is waging. I need nor more confirmation of this than the rhetoric being used by Bush/Cheney to condemn those who want to end their jaunt into Iraq.
So I get an email this morning from a colleague with a quote from an article in it.
Using satellite and aerial imagery, research scientists from the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration have calculated that
approximately 162,000 square kilometers of the United States is covered
in turf — an area roughly three times larger than any irrigated crop
currently under cultivation. And lawns are thirsty, consuming
approximately 270 billion gallons of water a week in the U.S. — enough
to irrigate 327,000 square kilometers of organic vegetables.
I immediately wrote back the following, only reading the above paragraph:
After lawns are replaced with veggie gardens.
Tiger Woods’ Caddy: Ok Tiger…now you want to hit this one over the arugula, and past the broccoli….coming to a rest just to the left of the pumpkin patch, but stay back, you DON’T want to be swatting that ball through the pumpkin patch. After that it should be a clear shot to the mirco-greens.
Tiger: I’m kinda hungry….
The shrubby vegetation served as escape cover when cottontails were experimentally chased with dogs.
Warning, esoteric GIS related post follows.
I often like to be able to generate a quick histogram of an ASCII raster file that I use for some of my models. I can do this inside of ArcGIS on a GRID file, but I like to be able to do this directly on an ASCII sometimes. Python to the rescue…
This is the best summary of solar energy capture methods that I have seen. It has the advantage of not being written by a science writer and gets just technical enough to help you understand the various methods.
I started working on my PhD proposal and decided that it would be best done as a wiki. I have been using MoinMoin for a wiki in my lab with my labmates. I like MoinMoin, but I don’t like how much of a pain it is to install it on debian. I decided to go back to mediawiki as it seems to be performing a bit better these days and is increasingly the standard wiki markup. So I have a mediawiki set up now for tracking my research, my reading and my PhD proposal. I might even get really brave and do my whole dissertation in wiki form.
Continue reading ‘Wikifying my life’
Synergy is a network KVM. It is great if you have multiple computers. I have a setup with a Powerbook, WinXP and Ubuntu Laptop all controlled by the same keyboard and mouse (across four screens) merged together into one desktop. It is a beautiful thing… Some simple config examples after the jump.
Funny translation (YouTube) of the 10 principles of economics for the layman by a stand-up economist. I guess comedy was more lucrative.
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