Monthly Archives: November 2005

Free Textbooks for your Perusal

Since most of my expensive undergraduate engineering and science textbooks, which were valuable reference materials, were destroyed when Hurricane Katrina flooded my apartment, I’m looking for replacements.

Specifically, I’m looking for freely available replacements on the Internet(s). Having found a free Linear Algebra book previously, I surmised that more must be available. I was correct. Here is what I’ve found so far:

Time for a coffee break. Apparently 7 hours and 50 minutes was not enough sleep.

Kansas Board of Ed. Redefines Science

In the interest of Intelligent Design, the Kansas education board has redefined science.

… the board rewrote the definition of science, so that it is no longer limited to the search for natural explanations of phenomena.

This is really, really sad. This is backsliding on hundreds of years of progress.

In other news, even the Vatican supports Evolution.

Let me just remind you that Evolution is a fact, not a theory.

Brock is tired now

I’m going to go to sleep VERY soon. Three bits of information.

  1. I’m thinking about staring up a general, public, cardiac electrophysiology wiki, for the informational coordination of the field
  2. I forgot what I was going to write for this bit
  3. Stats below!
Sleep Water Exercise Coffee Alcohol
05:40 h 2.200 L (est) 18:51 min 1/4 cup(s) 1 drink(s)

Long, busy, and productive day. Goodnight intarweb.

Recreation by Destruction

There’s a link to this article over on Marginal Revolution about the reptilian glee of destruction, fire, explosions, and so on. I’ve often thought about trying to start a recreation center full of old junk and tools of destruction near Tulane. One would suspect there’s a market for it with all of the deadlines, homework, pressure from parents, grading, etc that take place in a university setting. I heard somewhere that places like this exist in Japan, but I don’t have any confirmation of that. Do you?

A Long Day

Today was quite a long day. I was at work for almost 12 hours, a good 9 of which were hard work.

I’m too beat to make much of an entry… Oh, and I put my film cover on the iPod nano. It’s static-cling which is nice, because it can be re-seated at any time.

Also, headphones with a built-in iPod nano dock. Mmmm.

Here’re the stats:

Sleep Water Exercise Coffee Alcohol
07:00 h 2.652 L 18:51 min 3/4 cup(s) 3 drink(s)

There was wine at the seminar today.