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I've always wanted to put "Smackdown" in the title of a blog entry. Just no excuse till now. Guess I shouldn't let that stop me! This entry is a bit technical. Sorry! Every Christmas I try to do...
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In the past it has taken my Spanish post-doc, Aran, up to 9 weeks to get his visa renewed. Not this time. It took one day! That is what I like. A lot of people are involved with getting this...
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View ArticleThe Trouble With the iPod
I find the iPod an amazingly frustrating machine. So good, but... At the mall yesterday doing some last minute shopping (!!) I wandered into the packed Apple store. They had the nano up through the...
View ArticleCamera Lust
It wasn't 30 minutes after I got into the house that my mother was showing off her new Camera -- the Casio EX-Z750. As it happens, this is the next generation version of my camera. It is smaller,...
View ArticleROOT/SQL Smackdown!
I've always wanted to put "Smackdown" in the title of a blog entry. Just no excuse till now. Guess I shouldn't let that stop me! This entry is a bit technical. Sorry! Every Christmas I try to do...
View ArticleIt's Coming Sooner Than We Thnik...
From a NYTimes article: "How could this happen?" Ms. Brown asked Representative Gibson C. Armstrong two summers ago, complaining about a physics professor at the York campus of Pennsylvania State...
View ArticleBack in the Saddle
I'm back at Fermilab. My Christmas break was fantastic -- thanks to everyone who came from hundreds or thousands of miles! This was the first time that both the Heron and Watts/Chalmers families...
View Article1 Day!
In the past it has taken my Spanish post-doc, Aran, up to 9 weeks to get his visa renewed. Not this time. It took one day! That is what I like. A lot of people are involved with getting this...
View ArticleEnd Of A Year
Wow. I wrote a blog for a whole year. And I wrote a lot. And I hope you enjoyed it! I managed to get several big things done -- two papers I worked on came out last year. Some things...
View ArticleI Will Never Drink Again
Well, at least until dinner tonight. Mike & Grace's New Year's party was great. I (over) stayed until the end; easy since I'd had two owl shifts the nights preceding in Chicago. I've moved across...
View ArticleThe End of an Era
The info-mac network is no more. That is a picture of the first computer I ever owned, a Macintosh SE. I cut my teeth on an old PDP10 at Rutgers University -- with the good old ADM 3A and Visual...
View ArticleStalk Me Here
My blog is moving to https://gordonwatts.wordpress.com/ I just finished going through about 450 email messages from the holidays. Boy it was nice to have ignored them. Unfortunately, I found one, about...
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