Lunar eclipse

I kept checking on the lunar eclipse last night at ten minute intervals, my plan was to take a picture of it each time I checked on it. It quickly became apparent that I did not have the proper type of camera to take photos of the event. Fortunately around midnight Spencer got an e-mail [...]

A bit of a walkabout

Today I participated in my first Charlottesville Flash Mob mission. The group is very new and this is only their second mission (I couldn’t make the first one). At a predesignated time we all meet and formed a single file line (we numbered around sixty) and simply walked around grounds. We did it in between [...]

96 guesses

Last night I was working on some liner algebra homework via WebWork. WebWork is a web site that teachers can post assignments and you input your answers into the web page and it immediately tells you if you are right or wrong. Most problems look something like this.

 
 The problem I was working on had six [...]

Humpback Rock, the trip that wasn’t

It was in the mid seventies yesterday and after being cold and miserable earlier in the week I proposed a trip up to Humpback Rock. So Lauren, Stephen and I packed a couple of necessary supplies (camera, crystal light, and Triskets) and then pointed the Accord towards the mountains. After driving all the way up [...]

Watch the grass grow

I just discovered this cool website, RotundaCam. It is an live feed from a camera that looks up The Lawn to The Rotunda. So at any pint in time you have a hankering to know what is happening on The Lawn, you can now easily find out. Just watch out for streakers
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A trainy day

There is a set of railroad tracks no more than 150 feet from my apartment. When trains pass you can hear them but they are not loud. They never make enough noise to wake you.  I don’t know if they are always this busy and I just fail to hear the passing trains or if [...]

Early morning fog

The new banner is a sample taken from the following photograph.

The photograph was taken on a trip to Humpback Rock. Dobie Staff decided to hike up there and make it to the top in order to watch the sun rise. Myself and Jess were the first ones back to the car and while she fell [...]

Lights out, windows up

Last night was so unseasonably warm I was able to sleep with my windows open. My thermometer read 59 degrees when I went to bed and 63 when I woke up. Thank you global warming.
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Now playing: Birdmonster – ‘Cause You Can
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Today I made a calculator

Every week in one of my CS classes we have a lab. This weeks lab was to program a “simple” four function calculator. Since I want to get to bed soon, today’s post will merely consist of the code I wrote over the past two days. It is a postfix calculator meaning to that to [...]

Virtual tour

What follows is a brief virtual tour of my apartment.
Standing in the landing looking into the apartment. That is a coat closet to the right and then it opens up into the main room.

Standing in the kitchen looking into the main room. The piece of furniture that is to small to be a love seat [...]