The Invitation: First thing back after Christmas (well at least close to first thing) is a good time to lay some plans for the next season. This is partly because everyone is highly motivated at this time of year and full of the ‘New Years Resolutions’ vibe. This week, we’d like to have a club […]
Continue ReadingMichael Lovato posted his nutrition plan from Ironman Hawaii on the First Endurance Blog yesterday and I of course read it… and then I thought about it an awful lot in the past day. Of course, he’s got an agreement with a specific company to use their products during training and racing so there’s some […]
Continue ReadingBam! Marks from the last semester finished trickling in sometime in the past few days. Upon my last inquiry I had finally received the last grade for the last of my courses to be completed. That means I’m actually done. Bam! a few more illuminated pixels on the computer monitor and it’s now over. Plenty […]
Continue ReadingThe soundtrack of the day as I studied is below: It’s coming up on my sixth run through…. and at 70 minutes in length obviously it’s been a long day, but there are only 3 more days and I’ll have this degree in the bag!
Continue ReadingSo I squeezed my way through semester 7. My Quantum Mechanics final exam today came blasting right down the calendar and arrived all too soon. Any time I’ve had to write more than 2 exams back to back one of them often suffers. I think that’s mostly due to the fact that any time you […]
Continue ReadingHere’s the abstract for the latest paper… Electric Field Properties of Asymmetric Capacitances Properties of the electric field produced between two parallel charged conducting wires are described and analyzed. A DC high voltage supply is used to charge a capacitive configuration of narrow gauge wire which produces a strong electric field. An electrostatic model of […]
Continue ReadingJared Diamond discusses in his 1998 Pulitzer Prize winning book “Guns Germs and Steel” the reasons Eurasian civilization was the fastest to develop out of a universal hunting-gathering society into the dominant player in world affairs as we have come to know it today. Diamond’s conjecture is that the most dominant forces in history have […]
Continue ReadingFor my final Physics 397 lab I’m working with Andrew Burke and Steve Jim, we’re studying propulsion. The idea is that we ionize air in the presence of a strong electric field, accelerate the electrons in one direction and the cations in the other direction. As a result in the mass difference (more than 10000:1 […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a high quality musing by James Bell the First: If an intelligent outside observer is required for a waveform to collapse (and thus for anything to exist), how is the entire universe here? Who is the extra-dimensional intelligent outside observer who makes the waveform of the universe collapse into the form that we experience […]
Continue ReadingI just wrapped up reading “Guns Germs and Steel” by Jared Diamond as part of ENGG 405 (Management for Engineers). If you’re interested in getting a copy of the book so that you don’t have to go and dig one up before the deadline of March 30, feel free to drop me an email It […]
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