Various and assorted
Feb. 14th, 2007 11:00 amFor the musicians out there: Rose Garden ( http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ ) music software is Open Source and looks like it has some powerful features. Only runs on Linux though, so I can't give it a go myself.
According to Warren Ellis ( http://www.warrenellis.com/ ), Valentine's day was another Christianized pagan holiday that originally involved blood, sex, and werewolves. He suggests we great each other with "Happy Horny Werewolf Day".
Paper #1 has passed two internal reviews and just awaits a review by my supervisor at Carleton. After that, it goes to a journal to see if it will be accepted. Papers #2 and #3 are on the queue for today and tomorrow.
The difficult part of research is not the theory, or even coming up with new ideas. It's attempting to jam the round peg of theory into the square hole of what your test equipment can do. Often, as I am being reminded currently, the system was never designed to do what you want it to do because you're the first one to think of making it do that.
According to Warren Ellis ( http://www.warrenellis.com/ ), Valentine's day was another Christianized pagan holiday that originally involved blood, sex, and werewolves. He suggests we great each other with "Happy Horny Werewolf Day".
Paper #1 has passed two internal reviews and just awaits a review by my supervisor at Carleton. After that, it goes to a journal to see if it will be accepted. Papers #2 and #3 are on the queue for today and tomorrow.
The difficult part of research is not the theory, or even coming up with new ideas. It's attempting to jam the round peg of theory into the square hole of what your test equipment can do. Often, as I am being reminded currently, the system was never designed to do what you want it to do because you're the first one to think of making it do that.
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Date: 2007-02-14 05:08 pm (UTC)