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I stepped foot inside my new lab yesterday. Dr. Dodge’s terahertz lab operates a system that is very similar to Dr. Hegmann’s ultrafast set-up back at the University of Alberta. I also had my first four-hour lab TAing the Physics 130 life sciences lab. We (meaning the students) explored the simple pendulum. I am not [...]
At the BC Humanist Association’s annual general meeting last night I was acclaimed to their board of directors. The BCHA is a registered charity that has existed for over 25 years, but like many humanist associations has seen its membership drop in recent years and its median age has steadily risen. Hopefully, I can reverse [...]
Since I don’t use it very much, I’ve decided to sell my personal digital assistant (PDA) and all its accessories. So here’s what’s on the table: HP iPaq rx3115 Mobile Media Companion – has Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, SD memory card expansion, Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition, verified to work with Windows 7 using Mobile Device Center [...]
I think I’m approaching the look and feel that I want for this blog. While I wanted to keep it simple and clean, I realized that I needed to put a sidebar in on the right otherwise text would go on and on and on across the screen, making for a really unreadable chunk of [...]
It is finally starting to look like I can go back to working on terahertz spectroscopy related physics again. After a few months of uninspiring work in atomic physics, I’ve finally been offered a position in Dr. Steve Dodge’s group working with Honeywell’s paper-processing division to develop a terahertz-based scanner for quality control. Specifically I [...]
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