Monthly Archives: November 2005

I just drank 0.9 L of water

I noticed when going over my stats for today that I had only consumed 0.2 L of non-caffeinated beverage. Now, to be fair, some of the caffeination was from half-caff blended coffee, so I guess you could count the non-caffeinated half as water, right? Regardless, in the interest of consistency, I shall not count that as water. This inspired me to drink 0.9 L of water. I would have had more, but I fear that I’ll be up all night making trips to the bathroom. That leaves me, for the first time in more than a week of record-keeping, below my target of 2 L of water per day. I need to pay more attention to the water, I guess.

Stats!

Sleep Water Exercise Coffee Alcohol
07:30 h 1.100 L 02:00 min 1 1/8 cup(s) 1 drink(s)

I skipped running today mainly because my big toe is all screwed up from my sandals ( I meant to post about that ) and also because my legs were really tight from running M and T. G’night!

Giblets Weighs in on Funtelligent Design

This blog is phenomenal. I love it. On the surface, it seems infantile, but you can tell that whoever’s writing it’s pretty sharp.

… Giblets is proud to present, in conjunction with the Kansas Board of Education, a bold new educational theory which will one day enlighten classrooms across the nation, from the utterly foolish to the simply gullible: Intelligent History.

Conventional “theories” of history teach that “stuff happened,” which is insolent and implies that we are nothing but random accidents. But Giblets has found definitive proof that history is intelligent, and has worked over the course of millenia towards one singular purpose: the creation of Giblets! …

You can read the whole thing here.

File Transfer and Backup with GNU rsync

Our lab maintains an extensive wiki for internal documentation and coordination. With all of the hurricane shenanigans, new interest in automated backups to removable drives was expressed. Since I already do that, I wrote up how to do it on the wiki for the rest of the lab.

I think it’s a decent howto, so I decided to copy it to my wiki and share it with the world: Automated Backups with rsync. I also posted my older writeup on the basics of transferring files with rsync: Transferring Files with rsync. They’re both under the newly-created Tech Tips section of my personal site, brocktice.com.

Registered for Spring 2006

I just registered for my Spring 2006 classes, and here they are:

Course Name

Designation

Schedule

Instructor

LINEAR ALGEBRA

MATH-609-01

MWF 14:00 – 14:50; T 14:00-15:50

AMBDERHAN

ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

MATH-624-01

MWF 13:00-13:50

CORTEZ

CELL AND TISSUE ENGINEERING

BMEN-740-01

TR 12:30-13:45

OVERBY