An electron gun fires electrons at the screen of a television tube. The electrons start from rest and are accelerated through a potential difference of 32200 V. Ignoring relativistic effects, what is the speed of impact of the electrons with the screen of the picture tube?
1.08878×108 m/s
CAPA is done. Well, almost. I have to ask Ruskell about one question.
I want to thank everyone for their input. It’s always great when I can get an outside opinion. After much toiling, I’ve settled on these four pictures:
“Purple Dawn”
Andrew Ferguson – Golden, Colorado
“The Chains That”
Andrew Ferguson – Seattle, Washington
“Golden at Mines”
Andrew Ferguson – Golden, Colorado
“Bregenz Opera Festival on Lake Constance”
Andrew Ferguson – Bregenz, Austria
I feel like these all work very well together, but are also great on their own. I wanted to include a few others, but they really didn’t fit with the theme that was developing (not that a theme was needed).
There is also a cost issue. It costs money to print each photo and it costs money to buy the frames for the photos. Being a college student, I don’t have tons of cash to blow on things like that. I feel like four is a good number and is something that I can afford if one or more of my pictures are selected.
I hope that I can enter more shows in the future.
I’ll post an update when I know which pictures are entered and again if/when the images are hung.
There’s an art show on campus that will run from October through December and I’m planning on submitting some of my photos. But I need some help picking. What are some of your favorite photos? You can start by looking at my Portfolio or you can see them all.
Deadline for suggestions is this Friday (9/15) at 5pm Mountain time.
Here are some of the ones I’m considering:
I’m at Ryan Goodwin’s house, doing my Statics homework like a good boy. I flip by screen around and ever so gently tap the pepper shaker and my screen cracks. Actually, it’s just the plastic on top of my screen that cracked. It’s still usable, but now it has a hairline crack going through one corner.
I called up my good friends at Central Telecom, down in Lone Tree, Colorado:
Bad news: They won’t be able to look at it until Monday at the earliest.
More bad news: They currently have a 10 day turn-around time.
Maybe good news: Toshiba should cover it.
Good news: It stills functions just perfectly. I just have a hairline crack in it.
Here we go again.
Dugan, a commententer in the StudentTabletPC forums, has two Acer Tablet PC’s for sale on eBay: Acer c301 and Acer c303.
I can’t vouch for him or the laptops, but they appear to be decent deals. Gary Anderson, my math teacher from SAAS also owns an Acer Tablet and as far know likes it a lot.
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Going into this years SAAS graduation at Meany Hall on the UW campus, I had no idea why I was there. Other than to congratulate previous classmates on a job well done and give them the scoop on college, there really wasn’t a point for me being there. In fact, I really hate going to the graduations. Not because they’re boring. Yes, they are long (this evenings graduation ran just shy of 4 hours), but I hate them because they highlight my own inadequacies of high school.
I envy the students who were track state champions, won the state title at speech and debate, and won the regionals at mock trial. I envy the students who can paint on 3′ x 3′ canvases, get the lead in musical, be classes president for three years, and pioneer new clubs as SAAS. I envy the students who get into Yale, are on merit scholarships, and intern at the latest and greatest companies.
I almost left after intermission. Why must I put myself through this. And in the darkness of the auditorium, while Jean was grilling some student on the hot seat, it came to me: I’m here to remind myself of where I came from and where I must go.
Jenny Zavatsky, who is leaving SAAS this year, was Faculty Speaker, along with Steve Retz. Her charge for this class of 2006 was to make the world better. And while I’m not part of the class of 2006, the the toolsets given to me are mostly the same.
And so I left Meany Auditorium at a quarter past eleven, confident once again in the fact that I know where I want to go and what I want to do: affecting the course of humanity for the best and making the world a better place.
The Onions, SAAS’s awesometastic vocal group is singing again tonight at the Arts Center. If you’re an alumni, you can get your ticket for the low low price of $4, which is actually pretty good considering adult tickets are $10 a pop. Like I said, it’s tonight at the Arts Center, 7pm. I’ll be there, I saw Paige Pauli yesterday and she said she’d be there. Anyone else going?
Trevor Essmeier, a good friend from SAAS, and very well endowed…at least creatively, draws what I think to be a funny comic and worthy of puting on AFdN. So, as long as he makes ’em, I’ll post them here every Wednesday at 12am in whatever timezone I’m in. Many of these will be NSFW, not that this blog is really something that should be looked at during work. Just try to avoid it on Wednesday’s.
The Ultimate Players Association – Hgh School Division – Western Conference Championship was up in Boulder, Colorado over the weekend. Brian was playing for Nathan Hale. SAAS was also there. I took pictures of both. The UPA is also interested in my photos, so who knows, maybe they’ll be in a UPA publication in the near future.
The 2006 Ultimate Players Association (UPA) High School Western Championships ended Sunday at the Pleasantview Soccer Fields in Boulder, Colorado with repeat champions in both the Open and Girls’ divisions.
The Northwest School (Seattle, Wash.) repeated as Open champions by defeating Hopkins (Minnetonka, Minn.) in a hard-fought final, 14-9. In the Girls’ division, Nathan Hale (Seattle, Wash.) was also able to repeat with a win over The Northwest School (Seattle, Wash.), 14-7, in the championship game.
Click on the links below for scores and highlights.
Sunday
Open Division Girls’ Division ResultsSaturday
Open Division Girls’ Division Results
P.S. At the time of this post, Flickr says there’s “a glitch in the matrix, which we’re working on now. It will be some hours before all is right in the world again (from 10:38 PST).” Thus, some of the photos may not show up right now and you might get weird messages, such as “This photo has been deleted.” It probably hasn’t and if you check back later, all should be right again
The MIR website has seen several revisions. First it was the CSMBC site, which really had nothing to do with MIR since CSMBC is the parent club of MIR. The original MIR website was powered by Mambo before the hostile takeover. Mambo was too big for what we needed and I wasn’t that familiar with it and trying to figure out how it worked during the school year wasn’t going to be an option. So we scraped Mambo and went to a custom-coded in-house design.
Much smaller and on the surface, it did what it needed to do…at least for the most part. But the back end was non-existent and that wasn’t going to fly. So that brings me to the third revision of the MIR website. Currently being developed over at http://radio.fergcorp.com (please visit it, click around, see if anything doesn’t work, really try and break it), MIROMS (Mines Internet Radio Online Management System, pronounced ‘mir-‘Om-s) uses the WordPress core and then builds functionality around that using plugins and the great sets of hooks available for WP.
At some point, I’m planning on releasing the code for it. I want to release it under the GNU, but I’m also thinking about releasing it under Creative Commons so that non-profits can use it for free, but corporations would have to pay some sort of licencing fee (not very much though).
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