http://www.craig.snoeyink.org/blog Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:42:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So I'm writting lecture today for Fluid Dynamics class tomorrow and I decide to do a problem based on the space shuttle. Specifically, what is the velocity of the space shuttle as a function of time *after* it jetisons it's solid rocket boosters. What I found out while researching this is ... http://www.craig.snoeyink.org/blog/2009/09/24/my-own-connections-episode/ So I recently read an interesting blog entry by a power user at stackoverflow.com. If you are not familiar with it, stackoverflow is a website designed to help people with programming questions. People submit questions and othe users submit answers where the answers get voted on and, supposedly, the best ... http://www.craig.snoeyink.org/blog/2009/08/26/the-community-and-the-game/ My research has been going poorly so I took some time today to respond to a reddit thread on adding wind turbines to cars to generate electricity My response was no, it is not a good idea. And then someone asked, what if there is a head wind?  Great question actually, my ... http://www.craig.snoeyink.org/blog/2009/04/29/is-adding-a-wind-turbine-to-a-car-a-good-thing/ Hey. So I will be starting to write my prelim in about a month or so and I need to get back into the habit of writing. As it was right about the time of my masters, blogging will be my creative outlet. So, read on if you want, but ... http://www.craig.snoeyink.org/blog/2009/04/22/valley-of-the-sureal/ One thing that bothers me about the news coverage of this "economic downturn" is structural changes that have occured in the retail segment of the economy. Computers have had a noticibly drastic effect on the financial markets so why wouldn't they change everything else? I'm not suggesting that there has been ... http://www.craig.snoeyink.org/blog/2009/03/21/just-in-time-recession/ Lately I have had a problem. I am essentially working two jobs, I am doing research for my RA and research for what I would like my thesis topic to be about. As a result any hobbies that I usually indulge in, such as blogging, have taken a back seat. ... http://www.craig.snoeyink.org/blog/2008/04/11/python-my-weapon-of-choice/ I have been with dreamhost.com for a while now and I have finally decided to consolidate my various web wondering all under the domain name craig.snoeyink.org. That includes photos I have taken and this blog (and hopefully that other one if I can remember the user name and password!). In ... http://www.craig.snoeyink.org/blog/2008/01/12/hello-world/ So I have become somewhat obsessed with bread lately. I chalk it up to my engineering need to understand why just throwing yeast, water, flour, and salt into a bowl doesn't result in the artisan bread you see at the store. So, I am going to try to write down ... http://www.craig.snoeyink.org/blog/2007/12/15/bread/ "Ah, you seem to be leading me. Quite all right though, the last thing of a professor to die is the will to pontificate. You can still hear them in most drafty universities whispering on .""Where was I, oh yes..."Yip continued on for several hours. They had settled into a ... http://www.craig.snoeyink.org/blog/2007/11/05/continued/ Chuck leaped from the platform. Not, of course, because he had to but because leaping is one of the many Chuck does. At times he likes to think that it impresses the ladies. Other times it is simply for the pure joy of it.So, as I said, Chuck leaped ... http://www.craig.snoeyink.org/blog/2007/11/01/day-1/