80 Useful Tools for Flickr | Tech Magazine

80 Useful Tools for Flickr | Tech Magazine

Improve Your Photos 60 Seconds at a Time

Improve Your Photos 60 Seconds at a Time
A cool site with some quick tips on photography.

Atlantic Antic - a photoset on Flickr

Atlantic Antic - a photoset on Flickr
Zoya, Stephen, Laila, and I at the Atlantic Antic street fair.

The World's Healthiest Foods

The World's Healthiest Foods
This is a pretty good little page. It's a compilation of healthy foods that are dense in nutrients, affordable, and easy to find. It includes a large list of foods, with their nutritional descriptions as well as links to reputable scientific articles validating their claims.

Endangered Machinery :: Industrial and Industrial Heritage Photography :: Haiko Hebig

A great photography blog of old industrial equipment.

Food blog

Check out this interesting food blog for geeks like me- Cooking For Engineers

Enjoy.

Scales of the universe

This web page presents a great little interactive view of the scales (both time and space) of the universe. It's the same basic idea as the "Scales of the Universe" exhibit at the Natural History Museum in NYC.

Nikon | Universcale

Cool lamps

FRANK BUCHWALD MASCHINENLEUCHTEN | Design von Lampen, Leuchten, Lichtobjekten

Hamlet Organic Garden homepage

Hamlet Organic Garden homepage

I'm thinking about possibly joining this co-op for the summer. Not sure if I'll eat 5-18 lbs/week of produce though.

A "true" atomic time clock

planetary orbit clock [technabob]

Camp Upton-trained

A picture of the 7th regiment NGNY from Camp Upton

CampUpton

CampUpton

Brookhaven National Lab is on the site of Camp Upton a US Army training facility during WWI and WWII. This site presents several historical images from around WWI.

Shorpy | The 100-Year-Old Photo Blog

Shorpy | The 100-Year-Old Photo Blog

Radioactive Boy Scout | Technology | DISCOVER Magazine

Radioactive Boy Scout | Technology | DISCOVER Magazine
Somehow it seems like my high school years were wasted now.

Death and Taxes: A Visual Guide to Where Your Federal Tax Dollars Go

Death and Taxes: A Visual Guide to Where Your Federal Tax Dollars Go

Best of Gadget Lab: Garmin Forerunner 305 GPS Watch

Best of Gadget Lab: Garmin Forerunner 305 GPS Watch
A great little devise for geeks like me that (sometimes) exercise.

procrastination

I haven't posted since I was a citizen of the great state of North Carolina. For those of you who are out of the loop, I'm now living in the beautiful confines of Brookhaven National Lab about 75 miles east of New York City on Long Island. So, I'm pretty much living in a scientific monastery. Vows of silence are unnecessary here because you are unlikely to have to opportunity to speak to anyone in the normal course of a day. As anticipated, the move up here has been taxing on a personal level--leaving all my friends in Raleigh behind--but has been incredibly productive on a PhD-progression level.

I have been heading into NYC whenever I get a chance. I have several close friends living there, so visiting the city is sort of me time of interpersonal relations recharging. I haven't really made much of an effort to get to know people at the lab, partially because people don't seem to be particularly friendly--not that people are mean, they just have their own thing going on--and partially because I really want to keep my focus on writing my dissertation until I defend in December.

Well that's enough procrastinating for now.

I'm published!

I received an email from the journal "Nuclear Instruments and Methods" today, and they have (finally) published my article. You can read the abstract if you would like. So yeah, I'm published. I am somebody.

Beamline life (part 2)

Well, I'm still up on Long Island. Things are going relatively well. We are still waiting to receive the detector that was supposed to be here by the beginning of June. I feel pretty bad for Chris because he has a bunch of data that he needs to get before graduating and he sort of needs the new detector to get it. Because the detector isn't here yet, things are pretty laid back. We are doing what we can, but mostly are just twiddling our thumbs. I think we are going to make a video that we will use for our PhD presentations. Most of the members of our committees have never been here to Long Island so they don't really know what the research facility is like. Plus I think it would be nice to show to any friends or family members that are interested in where I spend my time when I'm up here.

Beamline life

So I've made it up to Long Island now. It has actually been a much nicer trip than usual. Having a coworker (Chris) up here has made things much more bearable, even enjoyable. Research has been coming along slowly, but I'm making some progress on my paper (which is a lot better than the zero progress I had been making lately).

I was playing around on Google Maps the other day and stumbled upon a restaurant about 10 minutes from the lab that looked intriguing. It's a bar/restaurant/art gallery that is in this old building. I'm not exactly sure what the building was originally--it sort looks like a club house at a country club that has been redecorated by artists. It is a great place. The food was excellent and the atmosphere was great. They have pool tables and several very comfortable looking couches. Chris and I will probably head over there again sometime soon to utilize their free wifi and comfortable couches. See this kind of a find may not seem like too big of a deal, but in a land of strip malls and Applebees, this place is a godsend.