live high

it's one of those lonely nights at the office, accompanied only by a whiteboard.



i wish you guys were here so i have an excuse to procrastinate.

MORE CELEBRITY SEX SCANDAL

SAM, WE'VE FINALLY GOT THE CHANCE TO BLACKMAIL HER WITH THIS

we're gonna be filthy rich, buddy!

goddamn entropy

boltzmann formula is the very thing that made me fail my statistical thermodynamics class, but my inner nerd could not get any more excited seeing it on a car's license plate.

in case you are curious, boltzmann formula gives the entropy of a system in terms of W, the number of microstates that corresponds to the macrostates of that same system. k is the usual boltzmann constant of 1.38e-23 J/K.

W is given by



where N is the number of identical particles in the i-th state of that particular system. Ideal gas is assumed, of course.

better than the strobe light

to whoever's reading this and has the possibility of living with me in the near or far future (future roommate, future girlfriend, future wife, etc),

we are making our own emergency party button.

damn right.

mathematical vandalism

does anyone know where to get a cheap huge whiteboard? other than ebay, where the shipping is gonna cost more than the item, of course.



cause i definitely need one. my closet doors are not big enough.

to those who are curious, those are maxwell curl equations (faraday's and ampere's law) in cylindrical and rectangular coordinates for a waveguide. i got the derivation down, but the physical representation still confuse me. anyone familiar with TM and TE modes for waveguides?