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Science

Travel Update

I’m at Larsmont for the evening, and I’ll take some pictures tomorrow morning to post. Amanda and I are then heading with my father over to my uncles’ boat, where she and I will live till Wednesday, when we move to our boat, which is smaller, and not as nice.

It appears that I’m not headed to Washington University just yet. I’m going to do a lot of “telecommuting” until we get access to our data and software, at which point we may find a more ‘permanent’ temporary home.

Check the map link for the current location.

On the Move

We’re moving the lab temporarily to Wash U. I’m on the road today, more tomorrow. If you’re from the lab and you don’t yet have a non-tulane email address, go sign up for a gmail account and send me an email posthaste.

Also I HAVE NOT HEARD FROM WEIHUI LI. IF YOU KNOW HER WHEREABOUTS LET ME KNOW, AND/OR HAVE HER CONTACT ME. WEIHUI (WENDY) LI.

Backups are good

Several months ago, I started making distributed (i.e. on more than one machine), automated, daily backups of my home directries, project and reference directories, and assorted important files.

I have at least one copy of all of these with me on a 500 GB external hard drive. They’re updated until Saturday, when I unhooked my desktop and hauled it up to Mandeville. I left my desktop in my parents’ house in Mandeville, and just brought the 15″ and 17″ PowerBooks. Even if the desktop in Mandeville sustains damage, I have everything I need to keep writing my paper while New Orleans is salvaged.

Make regular, automated backups, people. It just paid off for me.

Shocking by V/cm

It used to be that we could only really run shocks of a given voltage by testing how much current was needed to produce said voltage. Thanks to Rob, we now have the ability to specify true V/cm shocks in our simulations. That’s what I’m going to spend the rest of the morning doing.

I’ve run the pacing for the ascending ramp project, and now what remains is to do the shocks.