Archive for September, 2006

Side Projects on Weltanschauung

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
    It’s not that I’m not blogging.  If you look over to the right, you’ll see "Pages."  For a very long time, the only one there was "About the Author."  I thought maybe it would be a good idea to hang some other useful information over there.  I’m going to primarily work on my world [...]

New Coins

Sunday, September 24th, 2006
    There are a few relatively new issues from the U.S. Mint I thought worthy of a short discussion.  The first was the 2006 American Buffalo one-ounce gold, the second was the American Eagle 20th Anniversary set.      After missing the 2001 Silver Buffalo at offering time and price and continually underbidding for them on [...]

MatLab

Saturday, September 23rd, 2006

Circumnavigation

Thursday, September 21st, 2006
    Yesterday marked yet another sort of "first" for me.  I flew from Tokyo to Frankfurt.  Since that flight goes over Russia, that means I’ve finally at least been a passenger across the entire globe.    I know my Father-in-law has done that more than once.  As a matter of fact, his circumnavigation has included stops [...]

Technology Update

Monday, September 18th, 2006
    I just watched a class live via the Internet.  Then I called my brother, grandmother, and uncle via VOIP.      If you’d told me that you could do any of these things at all ten years ago, I’d’ve thought that was really cool.  Today it’s just another routine achievement that thousands of others have [...]

Happy Birthday!

Wednesday, September 13th, 2006
    You know who you are!     I hope you had a great day! 

A Rip in Heaven

Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
    I took a little time to read A Rip in Heaven, by Jeanine Cummins.  Jeanine did a wonderful job relating the story of her family as they dealt with the assault and murder of her two cousins, Julie and Robin Kerry.  This was of enormous significance to me.  Julie, Robin, and I were all [...]

Newton

Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
    Sir Isaac Newton is at once something of a hero and the bane of my existence.  My latest problem has me trying to use integration by parts of natural exponentials and trigonometric functions.  The last time I had to do this in earnest was 1994 (if that late).  In a way it’s been fun [...]

Lost and Found!

Friday, September 8th, 2006
Jill’s been found, everyone! Praise the Lord!

Please Help Me Find My Friend!

Thursday, September 7th, 2006
    If any of my readers are in the vicinity of Bishkek, Kyrgystan, please be on the lookout for Maj Jill Metzger — She’s been missing for a couple days now.  Report anything suspicious to AFOSI or Kyrgyz police.      Story on CNN.com    Story on FoxNews.com    Story at AF.mil      If you have friends, [...]