Archive for August, 2009

Silly, but funny.

August 7, 2009

This was my first attempt.
Then I was surprised by a failure to converge!
But then I got it in one with my next attempt.
Mary found a nice one in an old favorite.
She thought lyrics might give good results, but not Penny Lane.
A base slander led to a three-part loop.
Some things just translate well!
We had a romance [...]

Science vs Consumer Detectors: Thank you, Mary.

August 4, 2009

I have been trying to figure out recently why people don’t understand what IR detector data looks like, given that we have examples and studies and in a few cases specifications of what we’ll get from JWST, and examples and analysis of NICMOS, Spitzer and some Keck data.  My wife explained it to me, and [...]