random notes

I had to go to Student Network Services today to work out some insurance stuff, because they threatened to put a hold on my account. While I was there I saw a magazine with BT on the cover, so I swiped it. I like BT. Apparently he has 8TB of data storage in his home studio. That's way more than even what I put in for that astro prof last year for all his astronomical (literally and figuratively) images. It is an issue of 'Keyboard' magazine, so they talked about all of his hardware and I have no idea what they are saying.

I did make-up labs today for people that didn't finish certain labs, so I had people working on several of eight different setups at once. Fortunately everything worked. One of my students left their calculator behind though, and the TA that came after me was an ass and wouldn't take responsibility for it in case the student came back, so I had to take it with me and email the student. I have to drop it off in the physics office tomorrow morning. It's a TI-89 Titanium, and I have no damn clue how it works. An 83 just isn't good enough for people anymore? For me, it's TI-30X Solar for life! My trusty physics sidearm.

This morning I found a link to massive (like 500GB) hard drives that were like giant Lego blocks. I was amused. I don't remember at all where I found that though. Jim and I think it would be even cooler if you had hundreds of little brick flash drives you could piece together to act like one big hard drive, and you could make Lego sculptures out of them.

I have also been cruising ytmnd.com, I am amused at its randomness. My favorites:

http://katametroiddamaci.ytmnd.com/
http://joneskatamari.ytmnd.com/

Man, now I want to play some KD/WLK. Which reminds me, Vincent still has my copy of KD...

I joined a forum for identifying songs from Top Gear episodes (they don't publish a playlist). It's an interesting source of new music, and trying to remember obscure songs I have heard before can be fun. iTunes is great for that kind of surfing through my entire music collection. When it's working. iTunes + iPod have been acting up a bit and it's been getting on my nerves.

I made some good headway on tomorrow's quantum HW, but I'm just going to finish it tomorrow morning. as usual. read some more of my new book and go to bed. I am reading The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Modern European Thought. It is worded a little fancifully, they use the word 'modern' pretty loosely, and has lots of those little historical details I don't particularly care about (like Voltaire's stock exchange transactions), but I think it still brings up some interesting points. The next chapter is Adam Smith so I am looking forward to that.