New blog

I am now going to be doing my blogging over at http://jeremymikkola.wordpress.com/
See you there.

Dried flowers

Dried flowers
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Originally uploaded by Silenceofnight

Green or blue?

Green or blue?
Originally uploaded by Silenceofnight

Christmas lights

Christmas lights
Originally uploaded by Silenceofnight

Sixth Photo Meme

Originally uploaded by Silenceofnight

“It works like this: if you use Flickr, go to the sixth page of your photostream and pick the sixth picture there, then post it to your blog.”

Cranberry sauce

Cranberry sauce
Originally uploaded by Silenceofnight

Icy porch

Icy porch
Originally uploaded by Silenceofnight

I had to walk very carefully to get this shot (-:

Ice on the table

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Originally uploaded by Silenceofnight

Christmas lights

Christmas lights
Originally uploaded by Silenceofnight

O HAI

O HAI
Originally uploaded by SilenceofnightI just went to flickr and found this.

Thanksgiving table

Thanksgiving table
Originally uploaded by Silenceofnight

Dry flowers

Dry flowers
Originally uploaded by Silenceofnight

Leaf

Leaf
Originally uploaded by Silenceofnight

CBTS

CBTS
Originally uploaded by Silenceofnight

Fall today

Fall today
Originally uploaded by Silenceofnight

Big dipper

Big dipper
Originally uploaded by SilenceofnightView the flickr page to see the stars as tagged by astrometry.net

this place that I know

this place that I know
Originally uploaded by Silenceofnight

Fall

Fall
Originally uploaded by Silenceofnight

Tuesday

I just thought that I would share a small piece of internet goodness that I found. It's a nice little webcomic called Tuesday. It's just an archive of a few comics; it wasn't drawn for very long, but they're a very pleasant read.

Project euler

Lately I have been trying some of the problems over on Project Euler. It's a list of interesting programming challenges where the (correct) answer is a number. If you input the right number, it will mark down for you that you have solved that one. So far I've only done 11 out of the 199. If you want to try some, I would recommend that you use python as your programming language. It's very good at these sorts of things.

Sketchup + Kerkythea

Using kerkythea, I made some renderings of some sketchup models. The links are to the 3d warehouse pages where I got the models from.
Shelby Cobra KC 427 Concept


And this

Spring is here (photo)

The other day I was taking a walk and saw this tree bud blooming, so I took a few pictures of it. Here's the best one:

Knex wind turbine

The other day I built this small wind turbine out of knex:



It's just a basic VAWT (vertical axis wind turbine). I'm not sure if this qualifies as a savonius turbine or not.

Rogue Spy Satellite Blast

Awesome.

New blog: Go Make

I just created a new blog called Go Make. Over there I'll be gathering projects that I find scattered about the web and showing them to you. Or at least linking to them, which is just as good.

Google analytics on this blog

I use Google analytics on this blog. When I checked the stats the other day, I found something interesting. People seem very interested in the iTunes license agreement font. Whats with that?

It's my most popular post! (as you can see, this blog does not have a large audience)

Selection sort in python

I'm learning python, so I decided to write selection sort in it. I converted the CPP code from 24btes.com. Here's the code (the array at the beginning contains the numbers that will be sorted):

a = [90, 96, 74, 10, 44, 53, 61, 77, 37, 52, 25, 60, 9, 14, 20, 93, 5, 59, 29, 86, 6, 64, 4, 38, 51, 24, 11, 16, 85, 69, 34, 62, 50, 87, 55, 92, 98, 47, 46, 91, 57, 36, 23, 97, 3, 48, 83, 99, 12, 31, 2, 76, 28, 27, 39, 68, 49, 58, 95, 21, 17, 79, 71, 45, 65, 70, 33, 56, 43, 35, 81, 75, 72, 26, 19, 13, 30, 22, 1, 15, 63, 18, 8, 73, 66, 67, 54, 100, 40, 89, 78, 7, 42, 32, 84, 88, 94, 80, 82, 41]

def selSort (array):
    i = 0
    listLen = len(array)
    while i < (listLen - 1):
        minat = i
        minval= array[i]

        j = i + 1
        while j < listLen:
            if minval> array[j]:
                minat = j
                minval= array[j]
            j = j + 1

        temp = array[i]
        array[i] = array[minat]
        array[minat] = temp
        i = i + 1
        
    print array
    print listLen


selSort (a)

"Interesting" Quicktime + iTunes license agreement

I was just updating Itunes and Quicktime on my computer, and I got the following license agreement:


What's up with that, eh? I think that it is in english, but with that font how can you be sure? I would be interesting to know exactly how the bug worked that caused this.

Macworld brings down large websites

At the time of writing, engadget and twitter, among others, are down. The outages are the result of people trying to view updates of whats going on at the 2008 macworld keynote. No other event brings down sites on such a large scale.

Interesting video about global warming