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Entries from January 2009

Drawing with Crayons

January 10th, 2009 No Comments

This week has been going pretty badly…until now. Behold the first game I have bought in years!
Crayon Physics
Crayon Physics Deluxe from Petri Purho on Vimeo.
It is in fact as fun as it looks. You can still play with a mouse, if you don’t have a totally new badass tablet. I have noticed one physic-sy inconsistency, [...]

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Telescopes are awesome

January 6th, 2009 No Comments

That’s right, telescopes rock. And this one is particularly photogenic.

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A Pithy Title

January 3rd, 2009 No Comments

I’m only in Andover for another day or two as I am driving back to Ithaca on Monday. I can finally say that I am done with all applications of any kind. Maybe this time that statement will stick for longer than a few months.
I’m heading back to Ithaca early because I have my Q [...]

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More sun dogs

January 3rd, 2009 No Comments

Today I saw the most amazing sun dogs I’ve seen since being here. There was a primary ring, a secondary ring, a false sunrise, two side lobes, a white ring all the way around the sky, and a backwards-curving rainbow ring. One of the ice cube guys came by the telescope for a tour today [...]

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The year of the red panda

January 1st, 2009 No Comments

First post of 2009! Wooooo!
Unfortunately I am still doing applications. One more to go, NDSEG, and then I am all done. I’m also reading the fountainhead and it is amazing and awesome.

aim free and so untrue

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