Archive for November 30th, 2005

Abstract Day!

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005  working

Whew!

After much last-minute editing (on account of an advisor with a proposal dealine yesterday), all three projects in our group managed to submit Alex-edited and -approved abstracts for the APS march meeting before the 5 PM deadline.

The one Feng and I put together was a bit more complicated, since we had to coordinate it with our collaborators at UW-Madison and their work. Now, we’ve got three months to work on getting all the necessary measurements compelte so that we actually have something to report. Get back to me in February and see if we know anything more about quantum dots in silicon-germanium heterostructures than we do now.

Also, this post was mostly an excuse to make use of the “mylisten” option, ’cause that song is awesome, and definitely my favorite Lyle Lovett tune ever.

  

Writing code sucks huge balls

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

QED.

-just thought I’d throw that one out there.

  

iTunes and Amazon

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

So despite the vote against it, the blog is signed up for two affiliates programs. It looks like there might be monthly minimums for them, so there’s a good chance that nothing will come of it though.

Regardless, if you’re going to buy anything from Amazon or iTunes, click the on the links on the bottom right side of the blog. If you click either of them within 24 hours before buying something, it should get recorded. (Assuming, of course, that you don’t click someone else’s link in the mean time.) If you’re buying something really expensive from Amazon let me know and I’ll change the link to your specific item… that earns a few more points.

Good spending. :)