Archive for July, 2005
Stagnation of progress for one project
0 Comments Published by Sean July 10th, 2005 in Science, Work.Problem
I’ve been having trouble recently with one of my reactions at work. One of the literature procedures just wasn’t working as expected. The trans isomer worked exactly as the paper had stated, but when I tried the cis, no product at all was obtained. I changed a variety of parameters for each [...]
Temperature and Heat, Frustration and Triumph
0 Comments Published by Sean July 8th, 2005 in Computers, Science.A Little Background Information
Temperature is a measurement on a defined scale as to the degree of hotness or coldness of a substance. Heat is the flow of energy, in the form of molecular motion, from one location to another. High temperatures make it necessary to guide the heat away from the hot item [...]
Here’s an example of the type of picture from the QuickTake 150.
This was taken indoors, obviously, with very low lighting. It’s an action picture of kittens chasing and jumping to catch a laser beam. The image was converted from PICT to JPEG with QuickTake Drop. I then adjusted the image size [...]
It’s time we bought a new digital camera. The Ricoh RDC-6000 that we got through Freecycle a year ago is acting up more and more. Now the flash doesn’t want to work. The pictures weren’t ever that great. Most of the time they came out a little fuzzy. So much [...]