Google Reader Feed Streams

Yes, indeed, it's possible to create google reader pages for different tags. It's like me editing a personalized magazine of what's out there.

So, here we are.

Jade's science feed (journal articles, news/blog clippings)

Jade's music feed (an assortment of free music downloads)

Jade's eco feed (green-ness)

Current music: Boxing Fox - Do you live?

partly cloudy? partly sunny?

The chickpea sprouts in the garden have all been consumed by small furry creatures. My mother left for China. My eyes hurt from reading ~60 pages of technical stuff.

So, yes, it looks like it's seriously raining. And so, Coco can't be walked.

But Z just told me Eclipse has a plugin for Matlab and it will make me more efficient with coding. And subversion for version control. Less headache. More awesomeness.

Current music: Thievery Corporation - Amerimacka

teatime between bits of MATLAB coding...

Mother: I worry for those birds. That's not a stable branch and their workmanship on that nest is rather shoddy.

Me: I don't think there's much you can do to help. (Pause.) Oh, you meant you're going to super-glue the structure so it doesn't fall...

Mother: But they're likely to detach in the breeze if I don't! Or I could build them another nest...

Current music: Modern Music - Sixteen Going On Seventeen

hanging by threads of palest silver

From spring 2009

From spring 2009

Current music: Garbage - Stroke of Luck

atonement among bears

Such beautiful clever, peaceful creatures. Why hasn't hunting already been abolished?

Current music: Tracing Arcs - Through A Glass Darkly

space litter

ISS dodges space junk again. And I quote:

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station Sunday were forced to change the orbit of the station -- and the Space Shuttle Discovery that is currently docked to it -- to avoid an estimated 4-inch piece of space junk that may have been on a collision course.

It's the third time in three weeks that astronauts on the space station have had to worry about space debris , but it's the first time they have deemed the threat serious enough to change the orbit.

Current music: Wall-E Soundtrack

Objects in Space

There needs to be a non-governmental international entity for monitoring our friendly skies, tracking objects in space. This is why. All nations with space programs or who have satellites up there should subscribe to this service, provided by a responsible provider with lots of computing power.

Like Google. :P

Current music: Billy Cobham - Stratus

Tr16-244

Astronomers imaged Tr16-244, along with neighbor star WR 25, as part of a series of studies on star-forming nebulae. They are rare and powerful stars that live relatively short lives, burning through their hydrogen fuel faster than most stars. They radiate brilliantly in ultraviolet wavelengths and appear blue in color. Newly released images from Hubble show Tr16-244 is made up of three stars, with two stars orbiting so closely around each other that they appeared as a single point of light in previous images.

Current music: Etro Anime - Diablo

Ginkgo Harvest

Stage 1: Wait for ginkgo fruit to ripen and fall to the ground from a storm or gust of wind. It is their natural inclination to be just slightly larger than chemically-fattened cherries.


Stage 2: Allow small furry creatures to eat the fruit and leave the seeds behind. Depending on their oral dexterity (and something of natural gracefulness in their eating habits), some seeds will be left with teethmarks. Judging from the size of the teethmarks (see below), I'd hypothesize a chipmunk-sized creature.


Stage 3: Wash and dry ginkgo nuts overnight on a paper towel. Crack open ginkgo nuts with a nutcracker. Cover and microwave until you hear a few explosions being tamed by the cover you, ahem, didn't neglect to place on top of the nuts (approx. 1 min. for 25 nuts, microwave-dependent). Consume delicious translucent green gems.

Mmmm...



Current music: Nickelback - Someday

the leaves never stop changing

From Autumn Leaves