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Thanksgiving | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine

Link: Thanksgiving | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine This is one of the simplest descriptions of the spin-statistics theorem, one of the most important results from quantum mechanics, that I’ve read. Everyone should read this to get a glimpse at how important quantum theories are to our everyday life.

Posted on 2008/11/28 by dominic in personal | Leave a comment

One week

The title of this post is misleading: The family has been in San Francisco for more than a week, and I’ve been at work at the new job for two weeks, but somehow it feels like this is the first week that I’ve actually been here. I obviously can’t write much about what I’m up […]

Posted on 2008/11/24 by dominic in personal | Tagged eating out, san francisco, weekend | Leave a comment

Thank you to Wil Wheaton for this 5 minutes that made my night.

Posted on 2008/11/23 by dominic in personal | Tagged monty python, star trek | Leave a comment

I can stop whenever I want

I bet you’d thought I’d forgotten all about you, and was going to continue with lame updates that were just reblogs of other peoples’ far more inspired efforts. Well I didn’t, but I have been incredibly busy. Playing WoW. Well not just that, though it was the focus of the weekend. I’m getting ahead of […]

Posted on 2008/11/18 by dominic in personal | Tagged brunch, mmorpg, warhammer online, work, world of warcraft | Leave a comment

A high-resolution image of earth-rise on the moon. Not upscaled, not digitally enhanced, the data was always there, just unreadable. NASA have now read it and released it. via cache.gawker.com

Posted on 2008/11/17 by dominic in personal | Tagged space porn | Leave a comment

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life. Lord Byron (via kari-shma)

Posted on 2008/11/16 by dominic in personal | Leave a comment

Your Weekly Address from the President-elect | Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team Not that the content is not important, but what is more important is the choice of medium. This is a fantastic start to the promised transparency of Obama’s administration, and shows a rare understanding of how to speak directly to the public.

Posted on 2008/11/15 by dominic in personal | Tagged obama | Leave a comment

Please. Someone wipe the drool from my chin.

Posted on 2008/11/14 by dominic in personal | Tagged trailer, watchmen | Leave a comment

Fun with Windows CMD.exe

While I was in a semi-conscious state this morning, my body awaiting the arrival of sweet, sweet caffeine, and due to some issues I’m having with my work environment setup, I happened to check out what environment variables were set. I noticed one named ‘PROMPT’ that I immediately assumed worked similarly to the PS1 and […]

Posted on 2008/11/13 by dominic in personal | Tagged command-line, WinXP tip | Leave a comment

Finest worksong

Today was the first day of my new job. I’ve posted before about how I felt different about this change of job, as I already knew the people and what was going on at the company, however that really didn’t prepare me for actually being there. I spent 45 minutes on a bus getting to […]

Posted on 2008/11/11 by dominic in personal | Tagged presidio, san francisco, work | Leave a comment

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