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I have an iMoan.
……An iWorry to be more accurate. I have it playing all day every day in the forefront of my mind. I have ‘most played’ lists and ‘recently added’. I scroll through all my favourite worries and every so often I even play worries from someone else’s favourite playlist. I try not to save those to my iMoan as there isn’t enough storage left. At night it always plays on shuffle, just when I am drifting off to the familiar twangings in my mind of a familiar anxiety my iMoan will switch randomly to a totally different worry, one that perhaps I haven’t played for a while and I will experience that immediate sickening hot flush and stomach tugging dread. I will feel my face flush crimson and my armpits prickle whilst my poor blood rushes around my body wondering what the emergency is and what organ needs it most.
I sit up in bed, which is difficult in itself to do when I lie predominantly on my tummy; Imagine an exorcist type gyration as I realise I must be sitting up straight, staring pale faced, and blinking into nothingness in order to best address whatever colossal woe my brain has trawled out of the archives. In the end I can usually trump my brain into submission with one bigger worry after another until it simply can’t compute and I end up drifting off to sleep wondering who I would save if I saw a kitten and a little old lady drowning and could only save one.
So how does one go about combating one’s constantly regenerating worries?
They always tell you to write a list of everything that is troubling you down, that to get it out of your head and on paper will relieve some of the strain of remembering. Not so. I wake up in the middle of the night terrified that I have missed certain worries off the list. I then have to feel around the side of my bed in gummed-together-eyed panic trying to find a pen and THE LIST to write down my latest anxiety, ‘Why have they taken all of the magazines out of doctors waiting rooms? Have they discovered that this is how swine flu is being spread, through the thumbing of OK magazine?’ phew, lucky I got that one off my chest.
I have written out so many lists, so many plans of action, printed out so many receipts and letters and documents that represent miniature battles that I am having with various establishments that I now constantly carry with me a ‘bag of woes’. Piles and piles of photocopied pieces of paper with dates and names of random people who I have spoken to and scolded and threatened with sending more photocopied bits of paper to, or even going above their heads and sending said bits of paper to people in the ‘complaints’ department of the company (probably a desk just 3 ft away) who I am told ‘don’t take incoming calls or mail and who also don’t speak to customers, or deal with complaints.’ I am reminded of the woman who I once thought batty who staggered around the neighbourhood with carrier bags stuffed full of papers and documents; campaigns against this, protests against that and suddenly all becomes clear, she wasn’t batty, she was a worrier!
Worry beads have in theory always appealed to me, the idea of being able to hold a physical representation of your woes, to finger each one in turn and then cast it aside to move onto the next sounds as though you might be solving all the problems as you go. But unless you can write on said beads the proposed resolution to each problem each new bead is going to come back round on the string and you will have forgotten what worries you have fingered to death and what you haven’t and suddenly you have more beads than worries and have to make up some more problems to get yourself back to the beginning and then you can’t remember what you have even covered so you have to go through everything all over again. Perpetuators of the anxiety!!!
Why do our worries have to come out in physical ways? You need only look at my hands to see what state of mind I am in. If the sides of my thumbs look as though I have been thrusting them into a blunt ham slicer then I am having a bad week. I nibble and tug at the skin, pushing my luck until one chew too far and I have ripped a young and steadfastly rooted sliver of flesh out of its moorings so that it can flap and flail and get caught on everything and have bits of fluff clinging to its craggy, blood matted edge.
It is as though the sheer frustration of not being able to solve my problems on my own makes me turn on myself, I absentmindedly gouge and piggle and provoke until I’m stinging and raw and I feel like one of those parrots that spends all day plucking its own feathers out. Maybe it’s a deficiency in me; maybe I need to eat more cuttlefish.
Petri Computor 35, with CC Petri 2.8/40 lens.
Compact camera, produced from 1970 until 1974. Clearly inspired by the Konica C35, so it has the programmed shutter and rangefinder focussing, but it differs in details. The exposure metering in not controlled by a needle displayed in the viewfinder, but by two lights (green/orange) for acceptable or risky shutter speeds. They are visible on top and in the viewer.
The film speed is set with a ring around the lens and not with a fiddly ring inside the filter thread. As the camera has no dial for exposure compensation, you can manipulate the exposure very quickly here.
Cloud Computing is a 12-1 entry for Saturday's Preakness Stakes
seen during this morning's Sunrise Tour of Pimlico racetrack - HMBT!
below: another horse getting a morning workout with all fours up!
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A closer view of what sits on my desk in our office... Too see a wider angle view and more stuff Click Here, the description on the other photo also goes into much more detail about what I use and how I use it.
In short, about 5 years ago I uploaded a photo (now quite outdated) of what my desk looked like and the computing technology that I used... but now long overdue I have upgraded and replaced quite a bit. Things are now much simpler and easier to use... oh and I finally made the switch to Mac and have been loving life on OS-X.
What this photo shows is:
A 30" NEC monitor connected to an Apple Hex Core 3.33Ghz. Mac Pro w/12GB of RAM, dual 50GB OWC Solid State Drives(SSD), four 2TB Western Digital Black hard drives and a NewerTech eSATA card and two external 500GB Western Digital Studio Edition hard drives. The desktop has an Apple Wireless Keyboard, a Magic Trackpad and a Magic Mouse connected via Bluetooth and a Microsoft Ergonomic 4000 keyboard and a Microsoft LaserMouse6000 connected via USB2 sitting on a HumanScale 4G keyboard tray (it's designed for the Microsoft 'natural' form factor). Finally the Mac Pro has a Wacom Intuos3 tablet and a set of Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 speakers.
Laptop - An Apple 15" MacBookPro Core i5 2.4Ghz. notebook with 8GB of RAM and a 500GB Seagate MomentusXT hard drive (which also includes a 4GB SSD cache), with the upgraded high res. display. Attached is a 500GB G-Tech G-Drive Mini and a 1TB OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro external drives connected via Firewire800 and an Apple MagicMouse via Bluetooth.
There is more going on in terms of networking, storage, etc. but if you want to know more about that, click on this other image.
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Danger Will Robinson, Danger!
B-9, Class M-3 General Utility Non-Theorizing Environmental Control Robot from Lost in Space.
My Mom kept all of my drawings, it seems. I taped more and more pages together for my James-Bond-like underground data center. I seem to really like IBM tape storage, radar screens, and the more blinking lights the better. This dreamscape is soooo exciting to me, even today.
I think this was from when I was about 12 years old, just before I got my first computer in 7th grade (an Apple ][ and I added individual Mostek DIP memory chips from Dad's fab to take it to 48K).
A newborn baby fixates on human faces… but a newborn boy will turn his gaze to blinking lights.
Stereo equipment designers have exploited this innate attraction for years. =)
And in this full size photo, you can appreciate IBM’s pinnacle of geek bling-bling – an immersive widescreen of blinky bliss.
This IBM System/360 Model 91 was a scientific computer used at SLAC in 1968. It used Solid Logic Technology (modules of five to six transistors) during the transition period between discrete transistors and the IC.
Srinivasan Rajagopalan with hardware located at Brookhaven Lab used to support the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
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A rather large rangefinder from Petri, another lacklustre camera. Way too big for a an all auto camera with the usual 40/2,8 lens. No manual control, no self-timer, but we do get 3 leds, one for long exposure warning, another for OK exposure and one for testing the battery. They are visible in the viewfinder and on top of the camera, nice.
The biggest problem of this camera is the shutter. You just wouldn't believe how loud it is! It is as loud as an SLR, I kid you not! I have never seen a leaf shutter as noisy as this one and it is electronic! I think it was a house made shutter and Petri knew about this problem as the next model (based on this Computor) has a completely silent Seiko ESP.
Computing Sciences hosted 14 local high school students as part of an outreach program to introduce students to various career options in scientific computing and networking. The sessions include presentations, hands-on activities, and tours of facilities. The program was developed with input from computer science teachers at Berkeley High, Albany High, Richmond's Kennedy High, and Oakland Tech. Computing Staff present a wide range of topics including assembling a desktop computer, cyber security war stories, algorithms for combustion and astrophysics and the role of applied math.
credit: Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab - Roy Kaltschmidt, photographer
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Well outside its usual range, so understandably looking a bit lost...have entered the sighting on ebird where I suspect it will cause some conniptions, as in, "Does not compute"...sighted while taking part in the Beach Nesting Birds Biennial Survey
Three of the four members of the Algonauts (the winning team) at this year's Digi-Key competition. (The green thing on the table to the right is Tyler's elbow.)
Argonne scientists are working on more efficient techniques to allow computer visualizations of extremely complex phenomena, like this rendering of a supernova.
This astrophysics simulation seeks to discover the mechanism behind core-collapse supernovae, or the violent death of short-lived, massive stars. The image shows entropy values in the core of the supernova, different colors and transparencies assigned to different values of entropy. By selectively adjusting the color and transparency, the scientist can peel away outer layers and see values in the interior of the 3-D volume.
Image courtesy Hongfeng Yu at University of California-Davis. The dataset used was provided by scientists John Blondin at North Carolina State University and Tony Mezzacappa from Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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The RHIC and ATLAS Computing Facility (RACF) is a unified facility delivering leveraged, cost-effective computing to both RHIC (NP) and ATLAS (HEP). RCF provides ~90% of the computing capacity for PHENIX and STAR data analysis. The ATLAS Tier-1 facility is the largest of 11 Tier-1 centers worldwide and contributes a share of 23% of the worldwide computing capacity to ATLAS data analysis at 99% service availability (12 month average). Besides CERN the BNL Atlas Center is the most important ATLAS data repository: delivers ~200 TB/day to >100 data centers around the world. Together with the Physics Application Software group these resources and capabilities make BNL one of the largest Big Data / High Throughput Computing (HTC) resources and expertise pools in US science.