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<sits down backwards in chair>
What's happening, my brotha's?
(Gets the feeling very few people will actually get that intro.)
Well, I'm still working on my PhD. Mechanical Engineering, trying to develop a hybrid two-phase code to interface moderate-scale traditional continuum CFD with nanoscale molecular dynamics CFD, blah blah blah.
Right now, on my dissertation topic, I'm trying to get the continuum code some other guy wrote to work for different input conditions, and it's a real pain because doing what it looks like I should be able to do doesn't seem to work (you should see what some of these bubbles are doing; it's crizazy), and of course the documentation (if you can call it that) doesn't cover it, so I'm basically having to go through the thousands of lines of crazy-ass code to basically reverse-engineer the solvers they're using and try to figure out exactly what it is they're expecting that we're not giving them.
And of course, on top of that, I'm running simulations almost 24/7 to get good parametric data, which means doing anything else on my computer goes really slow, and I can't reboot to get into my Linux partition until a run ends (which is often several hours). And now, I need to start running on finer grids, which means -- hooray -- 3-8 times as long for a run.
Well, my class is going alright, I still need to redo that one exam problem that I didn't get to work out, but I think I was really close before, so hopefully it won't take too long. Just a couple more weeks, and I'll have a lot more free time to work on my research.
I'm almost finished preparing the final for the lab I teach, so that's good.
I did stupidly volunteer for the organizing committee for our Graduate Student Conference this Saturday, so that's kept me pretty busy updating the Website, going to meetings, and such. And I'm the only one who still has stuff to do after the conference is over. >u<#
I still think the worst thing, though, is having to wear a suit this Saturday. Seriously, it's almost 90° out there (I'd do the math for you non-Americans, but it's too hot).
Yeah, I hate Louisiana weather. We have, like two or three weeks of winter a year (usually not consecutively, either). Some of the spring/fall weather can be kind of pleasant, but then you get the real summer weather like we've had this week, and I'm in utter agony. All I can say is, "Thank God for air conditioning."
Well, now that I'm done ranting, it's time for the fun stuff.
...
Let's see... fun stuff, fun stuff.
Oh, I did finish LoZ: The Minish Cap. Now I'm playing through it again, but in French this time (I got a new French office-mate, and realized my mastery of the language had gone the way of Dave Coulier's career). Once I get back into practice, I might also try shinobi.fr (it's a free Naruto-based MMORPG, but it's all in French).
And my GL/GLC subscriptions did start coming in this month. I got to see that chick who played possum with a power ring officially become a GL, and saw Part I of Hal Jordan's backstory, which was interesting.
I guess that's about it. Man, I really need to get a life, don't I?
<sits down backwards in chair>
What's happening, my brotha's?
(Gets the feeling very few people will actually get that intro.)
Well, I'm still working on my PhD. Mechanical Engineering, trying to develop a hybrid two-phase code to interface moderate-scale traditional continuum CFD with nanoscale molecular dynamics CFD, blah blah blah.
Right now, on my dissertation topic, I'm trying to get the continuum code some other guy wrote to work for different input conditions, and it's a real pain because doing what it looks like I should be able to do doesn't seem to work (you should see what some of these bubbles are doing; it's crizazy), and of course the documentation (if you can call it that) doesn't cover it, so I'm basically having to go through the thousands of lines of crazy-ass code to basically reverse-engineer the solvers they're using and try to figure out exactly what it is they're expecting that we're not giving them.
And of course, on top of that, I'm running simulations almost 24/7 to get good parametric data, which means doing anything else on my computer goes really slow, and I can't reboot to get into my Linux partition until a run ends (which is often several hours). And now, I need to start running on finer grids, which means -- hooray -- 3-8 times as long for a run.
Well, my class is going alright, I still need to redo that one exam problem that I didn't get to work out, but I think I was really close before, so hopefully it won't take too long. Just a couple more weeks, and I'll have a lot more free time to work on my research.
I'm almost finished preparing the final for the lab I teach, so that's good.
I did stupidly volunteer for the organizing committee for our Graduate Student Conference this Saturday, so that's kept me pretty busy updating the Website, going to meetings, and such. And I'm the only one who still has stuff to do after the conference is over. >u<#
I still think the worst thing, though, is having to wear a suit this Saturday. Seriously, it's almost 90° out there (I'd do the math for you non-Americans, but it's too hot).
Yeah, I hate Louisiana weather. We have, like two or three weeks of winter a year (usually not consecutively, either). Some of the spring/fall weather can be kind of pleasant, but then you get the real summer weather like we've had this week, and I'm in utter agony. All I can say is, "Thank God for air conditioning."
Well, now that I'm done ranting, it's time for the fun stuff.
...
Let's see... fun stuff, fun stuff.
Oh, I did finish LoZ: The Minish Cap. Now I'm playing through it again, but in French this time (I got a new French office-mate, and realized my mastery of the language had gone the way of Dave Coulier's career). Once I get back into practice, I might also try shinobi.fr (it's a free Naruto-based MMORPG, but it's all in French).
And my GL/GLC subscriptions did start coming in this month. I got to see that chick who played possum with a power ring officially become a GL, and saw Part I of Hal Jordan's backstory, which was interesting.
I guess that's about it. Man, I really need to get a life, don't I?
