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I told Rols I would give him the paper tomorrow. Why did I say that?? I'm finishing a double latte and I wanted a Jolt but the convenience store was closed so I just had an RC Cola from Top Dog. I hope it doesn't wear off too soon. I remember that during pre-frosh week (heehee!) I was in some freshman's dorm and one student was telling another, "...It doesn't matter, whatever happens, I'm gonna have to pull an all-nighter tonight." And I thought, "Dude, this girl does not plan ahead..." hahaha!

Anyhow, I'm sure that updating my journal will really help me meet this deadline. There are not really any consequences to not meeting the deadline, except once-again-smashed-to-the-ground-pride. It's like in Naked Economics when he's explaining how government agencies have NO INCENTIVE to offer better services because there ain't no competition.

Some things have happened (passive voice...), ate robata (Japanese grill stuff), went to Rilo Kiley concert, took the transbay bus home, ran after a 51 bus in downtown Oakland at 2:30am (caught it), rode it to the end of the line in Alameda (not in the plan), sat in front of the computer, watched NBA games.

Yesdogs put up the calendars for the next FOUR YEARS on the wall and I thought she was planning ahead a bit much and asked, "Are you going to put a big star on your 30th b-day?" and she almost gagged/assaulted me right there.

Jeff came back with the helmet-cam, he bolted his Canon camera on a helmet and is riding around on his mountain bike with the video on record. Dork.

For Father's Day, my dad flew a kite.

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  • For fathers' day I got a 100x microscope and had to collect pond scum where the dogs dig standing pools to check for mosquitoes. Your rock-study freinds will be pleased that I took a picture of the reflection in said standing scum of another part of the background, so as to be able to determine the wave activity in the standing pool if need be.

    I got only one mosquito bite, and I haven't counted any larvae yet, but as soon as my daughter gets old enough to deal with slides and coverslips, she's in for a b

    • I feel like I missed something somewhere along the line?... I am lost.
      • Sorry. I'm trying to figure out whether the big hard problem in 1-dimensional audio acoustics that I figured out in '99 is analogous to the important underground density and composition imaging with rock-oustics.

        Can you tell me, please, what device, method, or service the most advanced petroleum prospecting imagery is obtained from these days?

        • "most advanced"? hmmm.... we in academia don't have access to that kind of knowledge. I suppose you already know about the regular ol' seismic reflection blah blah blah? Sometimes they have the machines you can take to urban areas that just pound on the ground to make vibrations... hahaha. sorry i'm useless.
        • What are apps made by ESRI?

          I'll take "Beginner's Guesses" for $500, Alex.
          • How about this [blackwell-synergy.com] and this [utexas.edu] and this? [tamu.edu]
            • Those are very interesting. I retract.
              • So, please trust me. If the 1-D sound people who have been needing it for decades didn't know how to align their phases until I figured it out for them (I'm not saying that I was first, only the first to publish on USENET instead of hoarding it as a trade secret, which may or may not have happened beforehand), then please trust me when I say that much of what the borehole acoustics people write on the web just screams out, "We don't know how to align wave phases!"

                To recap: In order to model the environm

                • This 3-D stuff is new to me.

                  Here's what I'd suggest starting with:

                  For each slice of time, for each cube in the area being imaged (which should be much larger than the area you are interested in, if you want to benefit from echoes), for each frequency bin, the inputs are the phase, amplitude, and direction of traversal (one of 26 3-vectors for each neighboring cube). Their are 26 sets of such inputs, and 26 sets of such outputs.

                  Each cube has state implementing particular delay characteristics having

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