Entries for April 2006
Newtonian Apples
For once, reading the Case Daily was worthwhile:
"President Edward Hundert and Provost John Anderson will dedicate a very special apple tree on campus in ceremonies at 12:30 p.m. on Arbor Day - April 28 - on the Case Quad between Adelbert Hall and the Rockefeller Building. The tree, already planted, is a direct descendant of the one legendarily used by Sir Isaac Newton in stating his theory of gravity. The tree was donated to Case by Arden Bement, director of the National Science Foundation and former Case adjunct faculty member. Refreshments of apple cider and Fig Newtons will be served. For more information, contact eric.dicken@case.edu, or at 368-3189." #
I may have to check that out next Friday (if I'm not going to the Honors ceremony), both for the sheer geekiness of it and for the apple cidar.
(No, fresh, homemade apple cidar for nine months out of the year was not an influence on my decision to attend Cornell for graduate school. Really.)
KeyServer Strikes Again
Dear Software Center,
All I wanted to do was some simple data analysis in Matlab on the data I spent seven hours collecting on Saturday. Is that so much to ask? According to your website, Matlab users need only have a network connection to use the program. My laptop is currently hardwired into the Case network, and, yet, I am getting nasty error messages from KeyServer, which isn't supposed to have anything to do with Matlab anyway.
Do you want me to download a newer version? Is that it? I'm supposed to spend my afternoon downloading a 1.18 GB file and reinstalling one of the largest programs on my computer, am I? I'm a busy person, Software Center, and this is not at all funny. It still won't be funny tomorrow morning when I have to go tell my advisor that I don't have results for him because Matlab refuses to load.
So do you think we can possibly move things along? This doesn't have to be difficult or painful.
Thanks!
Nicole Sharp
ETA: The KeyServer server hiccuped and Matlab blew up on me. The new installation involved infinite loops. I had to go into safe mode to fix things. But all is now well because Matlab works again.