Category Archives: The wonderful world of science
Nuke’em
So I stumbled across this neat blast radius simulator. Now, seeing as I don’t really have any real grasp of how big Manhattan is, I found Oslo around (10.76, 59.92) instead. Very interesting. Since it’s Google Maps-powered, I found …
Happy birthday, Darwin!
Go Darwin! Go Darwin! It’s your birthday!
Those little genes
It looks like somebody doesn’t like Escherichia coli.
More heavenly sights
Just a few days past perihelion, a comet has finally brightened enough to be worth looking at. Pity it took so long, because it’s bloody close to the sun now, and hard to see. Couldn’t see it this morning, …
Nordljos!
På dagen eitt år etter at eg tok hovudfagseksamen får eg servert det … fjerde beste nordljoset eg har sett. Lukke.
Heavenly sights
The Spaceweather newsletter informs me that a coronal mass ejection has just left the building sun, and might very well cause auroras in a couple of nights’ time. Good thing the skies have been reasonably clear the last couple …
I return
I’m back. It was a hectic week. But fun. Seems I know what BLAST does now. Nice to have my ideas adjusted by the experts.
København, metro
København sin metro er ny, fin, effektiv og automatisk. Til liks med Praha sin er han langt betre i sitt sentrum enn T-banen i Oslo, men har ikkje ein del av utfordringane som Sporveien har med å køyra oppå …
Lotto predictor
Since you’ve all long since given up on me actually updating this blog, I’ll avoid, once again, providing any actual content, but instead just invite y’all to join me in laughing at this lotto predictor program.
MySQL
I need to use MySQL in one of the projects at work. Fair enough, databases are useful little thingies. Big thingies. Frustrations mount quickly, though.
Example.
Dataset in text file contains N unique rows which I may want to update now …
Pastor Torp, du er ein idiot.
Ein søt liten artikkel om ei utstilling med homofile dyr. Denne såkalla Guds mann, pinsepastor Jan-Aage Torp, er naturlegvis opprørt over dette:
- Det bør være bedre ting å bruke skattebetalernes penger til enn å arrangere en …
Kingdom of Loathing