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the modern rules of christian care &... →

derekwebb: now let’s fire up our computers and smart phones, jump on our favorite niche theology blog or message board and demonstrate the same fearful, judgmental and uncharitable lives that we ourselves have been called to. because remember, whatever you do, even acting like a total ass, you should do it with all your might, as unto the LORD.

Feb 24th

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Derek Webb's "Feedback" Album is Beautiful. →

Feb 24th

“So then if miracles want to have scientific standing, that is be recognized as...”

– Great quote from Why I Believe in God by Rev. Cornelius Van Til, Ph.D. Found via /r/reformed

Feb 4th

Anonymous asked: Who am I?

Jan 26th

Anonymous asked: what is underwater optical communication?Please give me the detailed idea about the same.what is on off keying and why is it required?

Jan 26th

Jan 16th

Sumatra and TeXnicCenter Inverse Search

What’s the difference between this command: /ddecmd “[goto(’%f’,’%l’)] and this one? /ddecmd “[goto(‘%f’,’%l’)] In practice, the latter allows you to do a proper inverse search (clicking on the PDF takes you to the relevant section of the LaTeX document for editing), while the former does not. That little tick mark, ’, is wrong. It should be a...

Nov 29th

William Doxford and Sons - SN Guides →

The scale of this machine shop is astounding.

Nov 25th

“Q: Do you still drink cheap beer? A: I do. I play on an adult hockey league...”

– Chewing the Fat: Sam Calagione of Dogfish Head: DCist

Oct 26th

“Nothing is easier to achieve than full employment, once it is divorced from the...”

– Economics in One Lesson

Oct 24th

Setting the Axis of a MATLAB Plot

I ran into a situation where I was progromatically making a plot and I wanted it to be formatted correctly each time. This saves me effort from having to manually fix aspects of the plot that aren’t set. The trouble is, MATLAB doesn’t make this particularly easy. There’s lots of figure handles and such that need to be manipulated. Here’s a code snippet that a) creates a...

Oct 6th

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MOG Just Sent Me My Plaintext Password

So there’s plenty of online music streaming services - Pandora, Spotify, Grooveshark … and MOG. MOG just announced their new “free” service so I decided to sign up. Awesome. All fine and good until I get my confirmation email: WTF MOG?! You’re storing my password in plaintext?!? Have you ever developed a web app before? Hash-ed much? Long story short, if you...

Sep 22nd

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Mr. Hamilton could stand to break up some...

I’m reading the Federalist Papers. Two paragraphs in, I come across this monster: The most formidable of the obstacles which the new Constitution will have to encounter may readily be distinguished the obvious interest of a certain class of men in every State to resist all changes which may hazard a diminution of the power, emolument, and consequence of the offices they hold under the...

Aug 24th

Anonymous asked: Hey William, I am writing to you to gain some insight on Underwater optics. Its my final year project though research based I do have model the channel modeling in MATLAB. My question is:

Why to Choose a Laser Didoe than a LED as an underwater optical transmitter?

I would higly appreciate a response. Thank you for your time

Regards,
Rohan...

Aug 8th

Aug 6th

I’m at Crazy Fire (Cary, NC) “Dinner with the Altmans and the Simpsons” Follow me on Gowalla

Aug 6th

Reading List

Read recently: The Hunger Games (series) Incarceron The Sparrow Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell Beer is Proof that God Loves Us Currently Reading: Born to Run The Dervish House On the Desk: American Gods Game of Thrones what next?

Jul 27th

Jul 16th

I’m at Aviator Brewery (Fuquay-Varina, NC) “Brew tour” Follow me on Gowalla

Jul 16th

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6/28 - Happy Tau Day! →

Using a constant in place of 2*PI actually does make a lot more sense.

Jun 28th

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Churches or other that give food away?? (27609) →

It could always be worse.

Jun 10th

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Jun 1st

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Show a Colormap Image of a 3D Histogram in MATLAB

This 3d histogram function in matlab, “hist3” sometimes makes visualization difficult, especially if you need to remap the axis or want to view the histogram from the top, down. The easy solution is to convert the histogram to a colormapped image. The code below will do this. It takes 2 arrays, X and Y and takes a histogram of them and maps the histogram values to an image: cnt =...

Jun 1st

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Mendely/Goodreader: Essential iPad App for the...

I have an iPad 1, which I purchased last year after I sold one of my robotics blogs. I love it and it makes grad. student life a bit easier. I do a lot of paper reading. Usually papers with detailed graphics and color images - things that work well on computer screens and not e-ink displays like the Nook or Kindle. Unfortunately, reading in front of a computer screen for a long time is a huge...

Jun 1st

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May 3rd

Apr 27th

I’m at DH Hill Library (Raleigh, NC) “Summer reading?” Follow me on Gowalla

Apr 27th

Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles Soundtrack →

Apr 27th

Your taste is why your own work disappoints you -... →

This observation from Ira Glass is excellent. Be sure to watch the video till the point where he plays a tape from his early years. I honestly didn’t pick up on why it was bad, but he broke it down and explained. It was an excellent illustration on two levels - his taste is far more refined that mine when it comes to radio broadcasting, and it can sometimes take years to perfect your...

Apr 27th

Richard Feynman on Education in Brazil →

Applies to the 1950’s Brazil. Excerpt from Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!

Apr 26th

Apr 21st

I’m at Auto Zone (Raleigh, NC) “Time for a double oil change. Ugh.” Follow me on Gowalla

Apr 21st

TIL - Bubbles from Raindrops Oscillate and Produce... →

Surprisingly, for most raindrops, the bubble is by far the loudest source of sound.

Apr 20th

The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going To... →

Culling is the choosing you do for yourself. It’s the sorting of what’s worth your time and what’s not worth your time. It’s saying, “I deem Keeping Up With The Kardashians a poor use of my time, and therefore, I choose not to watch it.” It’s saying, “I read the last Jonathan Franzen book and fell asleep six times, so I’m not going to read...

Apr 20th

Apr 15th

I’m at Williams Park (Raleigh, NC) Playground and soccer fields Follow me on Gowalla

Apr 15th

No easy answers ... →

According to Internal Revenue Service data, the entire taxable income of everyone earning over $100,000 in 2008 was about $1.582 trillion. Even if all these Americans—most of whom are far from wealthy—were taxed at 100%, it wouldn’t cover Mr. Obama’s deficit for this year.

Apr 14th

Impostor syndrome - Wikipedia, the free... →

It is commonly associated with academics and is widely found among graduate students.

Apr 11th

My First 10k →

I ran in my first 10k road race on Saturday. My official time was 1:02:13, which makes for a 10:01 pace. I’m pretty pleased. I placed 209 out of 254 runners - happy to not be last!

Apr 11th

Apr 8th

I’m at Inside Out Sports (Cary, NC) “Registering for my first 10k on saturday” Follow me on Gowalla

Apr 8th

Apr 7th

I’m at Burlington Nuclear Labs (Raleigh, NC) Home of the worlds first peaceful nuclear reactor, and my 2nd home Follow me on Gowalla

Apr 7th

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http://www.desiringgod.org/blog/posts/10-resolution... →

Mental health is something I’ve been thinking about lately

Apr 2nd

Mar 29th

Mar 26th

I’m at Crazy Fire (Cary, NC) “Baughman family birthday dinner” Follow me on Gowalla

Mar 26th

I’m at Talley Theatre (Raleigh, NC) “Tickets for market oconner” Follow me on Gowalla

Mar 25th

Secret Fears of the Super-Rich - Magazine - The... →

” … their wealth isn’t always worthy of envy, and is certainly not worth sacrificing one’s life to attain.” Well worth a read.

Mar 24th

I’m at Mitch’s Tavern (Raleigh, NC) “Watching someone else eat…” Follow me on Gowalla

Mar 22nd