Author: Kyle
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Acronym Overload
I’ve been thinking a lot about acronyms today. For starters, I was dismayed to see that the new
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Acronym Ambiguity? Nope. Acronym Confusion? Nope…
I’ve been thinking a lot about acronyms today, specifically conflicting ones. For starters, I was interested to read this morning about the test flight of a plane powered by a pulse detonation engine. My enthusiasm was dampened, though, by (minor) confusion each time I read a subsequent reference to the aircraft, which sounds–when the acronym…
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Big Ten Champs!
Thanks to my roommate’s awesome soon-to-be in-laws, I got to see the Badgers clinch a share of the Big Ten Championship tonight. It was a pretty serious blowout (not a word to all my Penn State alum coworkers, I promise), which was great fun on Senior Night. I’ve got no real insight here, I’m just…
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The Hacker Within VI
Today’s subject: another cool Emacs mode Just stumbled across an Emacs mode for editing input files for Los Alamos’s MCNP Monte Carlo radiation transport code. Since I’m now addicted to syntax highlighting, I definitely snatched this one up. Turns out it was written by Tim Bohm, who works right down the hall from me. Anyway,…
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[Insert Puppet Joke Here]
It’s been more than a year since something I actually wrote got published anywhere but on this blog, so I couldn’t help but post a link to my short write-up of an engineering-education-related talk Professor Greg Moses gave at a recent department colloquium. If you’ve got a second, you should also check out some of…
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“Hey Jesus, You Want Pizza or What?”
Part of our Lenten discipline at St. Francis House this year has been a weekly Movies with Meaning series. Admittedly, eating free food and watching movies on Monday nights hasn’t felt like much of a sacrifice compared to the usual “oh shoot, I didn’t do enough homework this weekend” tone of a typical Monday night.…
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Shake a Tail Feather
So I’m up doing some work and watching a little PBS, and I just saw something I simply had to share. The special I’m watching is on evolution in rain forests and how a few pieces of new technology have affected some studies of same. Thus, thanks the wonders of high-speed (and regular-speed) camera equipment,…
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Sunday Judgment VI
A couple of years ago, my one-a-day usage errors calendar (yes, I had one) went off mission for a page to tackle a pronunciation issue. I’ll take that as license to do likewise. To be honest, though, I think the author and an awful lot of other people make too big a deal about this…
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The Hacker Within: Baseball Edition
With a little help from geek and proud, I’m now able to listen to MLB.TV radio broadcast streams on Kermit, the Linux machine I work at. Using the MediaPlayerConnectivity plug-in Alan suggests and choosing Totem as the default player in the configuration wizard seems to do the trick on my system (“i686-redhat-linux-gnu” according to configure).…
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Some Notes On Movie Reviewers I Like and Technologists Whom I Fear Will Bring About the End Humanity As We Know It
Couple more items to share from the last week or so… —- Manohla Dargis writes the funniest movie reviews this side of the AV Club. In fact, I think in the case of The Other Boleyn Girl, her review tops Tasha Robinson‘s. Then again, the latter is definitely my least favorite AV Club regular. (C’mon,…