I'm no fan of Robbie Williams' music but this video .... Running or physical activity always make you feel better. Everytime you meet someone new, you wonder what would happen of this or what to do with it.
This is the uncensored version...
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Cleanup
The home exam, I was solving and checking it to the last minute. It paid off well - I got 95, the best grade in class. I love Nonlinear Optics. Next is Elementary Particles course, it's just "Quantum Physics 4" in a disguise. Studying for this is like poisoning my brain time after time.
It's a great feeling. A huge amount of matters, assignments and problems, a great disordered structure, collapses in a short time to a clean calm surface, like a volcano turning into a placid lake. Like demolition of a skyscraper. Like a game of Tetris that went wrong, and suddenly you resolve it and the shapes collapse. Everything is clean and calm...
It's a great feeling. A huge amount of matters, assignments and problems, a great disordered structure, collapses in a short time to a clean calm surface, like a volcano turning into a placid lake. Like demolition of a skyscraper. Like a game of Tetris that went wrong, and suddenly you resolve it and the shapes collapse. Everything is clean and calm...
Friday, August 7, 2009
I thought I was close
I've been working on building a position sensor device for the industry, accurate down to a single nanometer. My friend, VP operations at a high-tech company, was to collaborate with me and make them buy this thing. I wasn't sure about patenting.
Twice lucky, I was assigned to instruct a project for an exchange undergrad student from MIT. So great, now I'm legally using all the lab equipment I want, and here's her project. She was doing a great job with the technical stuff, although sluggish at first due to lack of experience.
Everything was going well, we were about to make the first proof-of-concept this week. Yesterday my friend was fired.
It seemed that for the first time I was so f#cking close, to invent something and sell it. The greater sorrow of course is over him losing job. Losing or finding a management job is something very different.
To cheer myself up a bit, I decided to step on it with another thing I've been cooking. My girl's mother wants to set up a small candle production shop. I invited my neighbor who's a welder and showed him my drawings and assembly design. Stainless steel sheet structure, welding points, mounted heating elements, a thermostat. At first he was skeptic about doing this, but after some elaboration of the technicalities and a pint of Czech beer, we had the BOM (bill of materials) ready, he's taking it. Girl will be happy.
Monday, July 27, 2009
Nonlinear life
Just finished a home exam, 48 hours long. My instructor's course, Nonlinear Optics. Three questions, 48 hours, honor code applies. He sent an email the day before -
"Students, you have 3 questions in the examination. It takes 2 hours to solve each one, but I give you 2 days."
It was a joke, of course. Some of the questions, you just can't SOLVE. Nonlinear science is so deep you could dig for days and not see the bottom. What you do in the exam is make your physicist head work hard and do your best. That's what life is about, - it's too complex, you can't solve it, you can't develop a general algorithm, it's too complex. You use your head and do your best.
There's this temptation of course to consult with your friend. Brainstorming is often more efficient but he might distract from independent unusual ideas and deeper thought. But then again two people separately have a higher chance of taking a dead wrong direction than together. I chose to go alone and I think it was a good idea.
"Students, you have 3 questions in the examination. It takes 2 hours to solve each one, but I give you 2 days."
It was a joke, of course. Some of the questions, you just can't SOLVE. Nonlinear science is so deep you could dig for days and not see the bottom. What you do in the exam is make your physicist head work hard and do your best. That's what life is about, - it's too complex, you can't solve it, you can't develop a general algorithm, it's too complex. You use your head and do your best.
There's this temptation of course to consult with your friend. Brainstorming is often more efficient but he might distract from independent unusual ideas and deeper thought. But then again two people separately have a higher chance of taking a dead wrong direction than together. I chose to go alone and I think it was a good idea.
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Sailing
Akko's pier, took a fast boat to entertain a couple of guests from USA.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
i wish it was today
The old times... 60's, early 70's
There was so much passion and talent. Today it's special effects, computer graphics, icons and sex, sex, sex. And more icons and sex. You want this.
You don't get such music today. Turn the radio on and shut it right off in disbelief that today's public accepts this crap and likes it.
There was so much passion and talent. Today it's special effects, computer graphics, icons and sex, sex, sex. And more icons and sex. You want this.
You don't get such music today. Turn the radio on and shut it right off in disbelief that today's public accepts this crap and likes it.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
caving trip
The mountains in the Shlomi - Hanita area up North are rich with caves and breathtaking views. We made the mistake being too easy with the prep. instructions with two new girls. They came with crocs... One of them was a real panther, though.
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The Keshet cave was a bit of a disappointment, the concrete access trail, wheelchair standard. Salomon, Northface, Timberland, Deuter and other equipment kinda looked funny on this background.Next was Namer cave. We missed the entrance (we were warned about that but not about the next thing), and continued in a deep valley below a thick blanket of tall trees. The valley was full wrecks, cars and even heavy truck parts. I later discovered that I turned the group around just a couple of hundred meters from the Lebanon border...It took some guesses which of other caves is Namer cave, and finally we found the one. You have to crowl several meters first, to get into a chain of cavities in the rock.
If I was to pick what else to do instead of taking a girl on a "regular" date, going in a cave together would definitely be one of the best options.
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The Keshet cave was a bit of a disappointment, the concrete access trail, wheelchair standard. Salomon, Northface, Timberland, Deuter and other equipment kinda looked funny on this background.Next was Namer cave. We missed the entrance (we were warned about that but not about the next thing), and continued in a deep valley below a thick blanket of tall trees. The valley was full wrecks, cars and even heavy truck parts. I later discovered that I turned the group around just a couple of hundred meters from the Lebanon border...It took some guesses which of other caves is Namer cave, and finally we found the one. You have to crowl several meters first, to get into a chain of cavities in the rock.
If I was to pick what else to do instead of taking a girl on a "regular" date, going in a cave together would definitely be one of the best options.
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