friday comes early

for the first time in my life, i did not realize that it's friday already, and that another week has gone by. if the statement "time flies when you're having fun" is indeed true, then it is rather sad, because all i did was spending 15 hours a day in the lab. maybe i should give in to the research. give in to my destiny. like mike.

the athlon running linux i'm currently using just popped up a screensaver that continuously types "all work and no play makes jack a dull boy" with one typo per sentence. interesting.

figured out some more stuff, but apparently the more i know the harder things get. at first i thought it was just total energy minus neutrino energy vs neutrino energy, and total energy being all the energy at the end of the track added up altogether. with a little scanning, ID matching, parent-child matching, and plenty of trees killed, that can easily be done. but apparently that's not what total energy is.

fuck.

talked to jeremy today and he said one can only get the detector's resolution if the total energy is the energy detected, not the energy of the particles at the end of the track. that means five stages of error propagation due to energy loss in the scintillator, in the fiber, in the photodiodes, in the ADC, and in the quantum efficiency of the detector. this one is indeed not easy. can't i just stick to the original idea? it's audacious and it's all wrong, but at least it's easy.

starbucks on washington avenue closes at 11, so that means i can go grab some coffee tonight. the only problem is that if i go grab coffee close to 11, i won't be able to enter tate when i get back because the building will already be locked. i can't do work in my room either because my internet seems to be down and i need to ssh myself to minos-pc1. i guess i'll go stock up on coffee and chips after dinner, then head straight back to tate and spend the night here. or at least until the mosquitos start attacking.

grades came out. one A+ from branson, a B in 120a and another B in 154. not bad, i guess, considering i put almost no effort in 120a past the fifth week, and i didn't do two out of eight homework assignment and the entire last lab. 154 was just plain hard, so i don't mind a B. i learned enough to not make me look stupid in front of these people i'm doing REU with, but not enough in comparison to what i could have learned had i taken it after finishing quantum.

chapter 371 came out. check out the forum. badass shot of the week is zoro cutting the train in half and kicking admiral t-bone's ass with one critical strike. i love luffy: "oi zoro. it's in the way. cut it." with a huge smile in his face.

i haven't changed the blog song in a while, and i guess i won't change it for awhile. not that i don't have a new song i want to put up, but mp3 to rbs converter does not work on my mac. i really think it's about time i name this thing.