personal

Leaving for Indiana

Well, today is my last day in South Carolina. I’m leaving for Indiana first thing in the morning. Fortunately I didn’t have to pack and load all by myself, since a couple of good friends from church, Matt and Chad, came to help. Having their help made the job immensely easier. I think I’ve been… Read More Leaving for Indiana

links, science, stephen

Thesis is DONE!!!

Well, I just got back from dropping my thesis copies off at the University binder’s. After passing my defense last Friday, most of this week has been spent finishing the details required to get it published.

personal

Thesis & defense

As some of you may have noticed my blog has been feeling a little neglected this week. I haven’t had much time to write since most of the week was taken up with thesis writing and preparing for my defense Friday afternoon.

personal

Quick trip to WV

I got back to SC late last night (actually about 2:30am). Elisabeth and I had a great time together in WV. I arrived there late Friday evening. The drive went pretty well except for getting stuck in Charlotte traffic for about an hour on the way. It was a bad idea to drive through Charlotte… Read More Quick trip to WV

computing, web stuff

Dial with your iPod

“Here’s”:http://www.macmerc.com/articles/Pro_Pod_Power_Tips/363 a cool idea: use an iPod (actually a number of different digital audio players would work) to generate a touch-tone signal and place a call over a standard analog line. This scheme can even store address book entries using playlist files. It’s actually quite intuitive know that I think about it, but it’s something… Read More Dial with your iPod

current events

ID mixup makes tragedy even more painful

“This”:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13081646/ is an amazingly tragic situation made even more painful for some of the families involved because of an extremely unfortunate ID mixup. I find it a little surprising that the mistake was made in the first place, let alone that is was propogated for so long.

current events

Trouble in the PA

Not Pennsylvania–that’s the Palestinian Authority I’m talking about. I haven’t seen anything about this in the MSM lately, but it appears that the Hamas-led PA is headed for “serious trouble”:http://www.strategypage.com/qnd/israel/articles/20060522.aspx.