..., so I had to get permission from the instructor. The title made my heart swoon, so I felt compelled to go ask. The prof (who later became my adviser) told me I had the prerequisite, which was my emag class in physics. I was totally going to rock that course. I got to class and nearly passed out fifteen minutes into the lecture. The first thing we discussed was Maxwell's Equations, but they were...

So yesterday a good friend of mine changed servers, Manae if your reading this I love you. I've known him for a long time and we've done a lot of stuff togather and all so i'll miss him. He had horrible luck with Khimaria, like 0/80 on the hauteclair lol... Well he hoped to Bahamut last night... and a few hours later we got a free Khim. Congratulations Emags

Note to self: When gridding a region to solve, make sure that you have the decimal place correct in your max distance between grid points. Pulling dumb stunts like making the max length ten times what...magnitude more subregions than you need, makes the time to a solution increase by two orders of magnitude, and sucks up computing power that everyone needs...even when solving on Computerzilla. Doh

I'm getting tired of thesis editing. I decided to take a break when one of comments was that I should change "the total power radiating from an antenna" to "the total power radiated from an antenna."...most likely need to be done by EMI consultants to be effective), you're asking them to take on a huge expense which is only going to passed onto patients and still doesn't guarantee patients' safety

... she's been up to visit Kate and Andy in Newcastle again I've not dared to take her home to save the inevatable rant about buying more anime related stuff. Anyway onto the weekend: Friday night:- EMAG night - not sure what was been shown because I was too busy eating and working on trying to get a linux webserver up and running. (Have decided to get Fuyu's registration hardware/software up and...

For me, this falls under the category of "so freakin' cool, I can't stand it": Electromagnetic Link Deep in the Earth Varies the Length of the Day This article, from the IEEE Spectrum, discusses research... he looked very confused...as in, how does one get from electrical engineering to geophyics? He explained I have interests in dynamo theory. Perhaps I should send him a link to the article. :-

Tonight was the last night where we had to do a make-up class for emag. (My prof was sick for a week and at a conference (?) another week.) My officemate did his presentation on the Monte Carlo Method (MCM). We had the choice of which numerical method we wanted to present, and so he said he'd take that one. I'm very glad he did because every time I've taken some class on numerical methods (and I've...

I went through what I have for my presentation today. My partner presented on Monday. I think it went pretty well, but there were a couple people in the class who were confused. I decided to start with...to ask them if maybe we could go to a workshop in Minneapolis instead. There is one this summer...and it's not the weekend of younger son's birthday, which is a big bonus. Okay...off to teach a class

A few short items: 1 - I hate airports. Even if I'm not the one flying. I was already been ticked at the TSA person who stopped us in security (yes, it is possible for blood-relatives to have different...you live under a rock), Arthur C. Clarke died yesterday. I'm going to listen to Michael Oldfield's "The Songs of Distant Earth" and contemplate happy, spacey thoughts. (The spacey part doesn't take much.

I'm doing a presentation on Finite Element Method for one of my classes. This is a computational method that can be used to solve a lot of stress/strain problems as well as electromagnetics. (It's a major...if finding the stationary point of the OPL corresponds to finding the stationary point of the Helmholz equation. Anyway, I'm still bugged by this. Any thoughts? (Cross posted to [Unknown LJ tag] .