I went to ask people from a research group on the third floor of my lab’s building to see if they could offer some assistance in setting up some reactions that are very moisture sensitive. They were very helpful, offered some good advice, and are going to help me run some reactions on their [...]
One of the nodes of our lab’s computational cluster crashed a short while ago. I noticed there was a problem when I couldn’t SSH into it to run a Gaussian calculation. I took up the hard drive first to one of the department’s computer guys to check and it needed its file system [...]
I had a IBM 75GXP 30GB drive that failed a few months back due to the unfortunate, but expected failure known for that series. I remember running the Drive Fitness Test software right when the crash happened and the drive was essentially unreadable and effectively unusable. Just for the heck of it, I [...]
I have changed the name of the site to Analysis of the Obvious, a suggestion from my wife after searching through science quotiations. The name change signals other changes as well, first and foremost more posting to this blog.
Photos of people, places, or things that I find interesting will be posted in [...]