Progress v2.5

Something came over me to give this another update, so here we are.

1. Paper published
2. Spring evaluation went well.
3. Making plots, and understanding PRIMUS data and building my own set of catalogs.
4. Started writing next paper.
5. Traveled to: Lopez, Wa; Harrison Springs, Canada; Olympic National Forest, Wa; 
6. Fourth of July in downtown San Diego
7. Built the structure of a Mantis-9 CNC
8. New roommate
9. App submitted to Apple

I guess my progress has slowed from last year, but I have still a year to go before my time point.  Soon I will be at the Keck Science Meeting, and Galaxy Mergers in an Evolving Universe (GMIEU) workshop in Taiwan.  The paper is coming along, and hopefully by the time point, I will have advanced to candidacy, and started on the next project.

My company has kinda stalled, which I guess what motivated me to write this post.  I am starting on the next app, an hopefully it will be out by the end of the year.  The CNC stole some of my time, but I seem to think that it is worth it is in the end.

Progress v2.0

Aggy stopped by my office today, and I noticed that I have not updated my progress in a year to the date.  So here is a bit of history:

1. Finished Classes
2. Gave RPC Talk and passes
3. Finished Green Galaxy Paper and submitted it to astro-ph, and APJ
4. Gave talk on Green Galaxies at the AEGIS meeting
5. Gave a poster at the CGE meeting
6. Started work on irAGNs in the PRIMUS group
7. Went to the Astrostats Workshop
8. Observed on Keck hires, lris and esi.
9. Traveled to Joshua Tree, Santa Cruz, Seattle, Lopez Island, Tucson, State College, Monterey, Irvine, Los Angeles, Anza Borrego, Laguna Mountains, Julian, Holy Jim, Cuyamaca, Oceanside-San Marcos-Carlsbad, Del Mar, Vancouver, Whistler, Wenatchee, Chelan, Methow, Winthrop, and Others?
10. Biked up and down the coast for donuts, did the Filthy Landlubber’s bike crawl, and critical mass a couple of times.
11. Collected a years worth of GPS data 10K+ of photos, 4k tweets
12. Learned ObjC, and Improved my Python, IDL, C.
13. Started a company, built a Monome, and built 4 applications.
14. Helped make a Turducken, Bacon explosion, and had three thanksgivings and two sonoran hot dogs.
15. Shot shotguns, and hand guns.
16. Saw the Pixies, ZZ Top, RATATAT, Weezer, The Hood Internet.
17. oh yeah… got older.

Grey items are non academic items.

So pretty productive year, but only 2 of the 5 of the items for the PhD and I decided to add another item to the list.  So heres whats left:

1. Write papers + do Research
2. Advance to Candidacy [Timeline: Within 1years]
   1. 5 Professor Committee [3 Physics, 2 outside Physics]
   2. Focus on  the work for the Thesis.
   3. Give ~50min lecture length talk about what Project and larger implications.
3. Write & Defend Thesis [Timeline: Within 2years]
   1. This is going to be trouble.
4. Get a postdoc.

Ubuntu AutoMount eCrypt Fix

Today I was upgrading my Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, virtual machine, and it seems like one of the upgraded packages broke the auto mounted encrypted home mounts.  Here are some of the possible upgrades that might have broken things:

[snip]
 2010-06-20 20:36:52 configure libkrb5support0  1.8.1+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1 1.8.1+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1
 2010-06-20 20:36:52 configure libk5crypto3 1.8.1+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1  1.8.1+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1
 2010-06-20 20:36:52 configure libkrb5-3 1.8.1+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1  1.8.1+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1
 2010-06-20 20:36:52 configure libgssapi-krb5-2 1.8.1+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1  1.8.1+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1
 2010-06-20 20:36:54 configure gnome-keyring 2.92.92.is.2.30.1-0ubuntu2  2.92.92.is.2.30.1-0ubuntu2
 2010-06-20 20:36:54 configure libpam-gnome-keyring  2.92.92.is.2.30.1-0ubuntu2 2.92.92.is.2.30.1-0ubuntu2
[snip]

I was able to fix it, by making a link:

cd $HOME
sudo ln -s $HOME/.Private $HOME/Private

With this fix, if I ssh in it seemed to fix the automatic mount, even without other sessions logged into the system.

EDIT:  This does not seem to fix the situation after a reboot.  I think it has to do with permissions of something, but still looking into it.  After sudoing a command, it seems future ssh attempts mount the ecrypted home.

ecryptfs-mount-private

Filled a bug report here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ecryptfs-utils/+bug/596994

Progress…

So yesterday, I stopped by Ford’s office, to make sure I knew what I needed to do in the next few years to say “progress” in my journey.   It seems that the entire listing can be simplified to a five points:

1. Finish 5th of 5 required classes in a different group.  [Timeline:  Next Quarter]
2. Give RPC Talk. [Timeline:  Within the next year]
   1. Get 3 Professor Committee
   2. 2 weeks prep
   3. Give 30min talk not on research
3. RESEARCH [ Timeline: life... ]
4. Advance to Candidacy [Timeline: Within 4 years]
   1. 5 Professor Committee [3 Physics, 2 outside Physics]
   2. About Thesis
   3. Give ~ lecture length talk about what Project and larger implications.
5. Write & Defend Thesis [Timeline: Within 6 years]
   1. Not even thinking about this one,   yet…

Seems almost too easy to get a PhD…  I am only kidding.    Here we go…

Spam

Either spam is getting smart, or I am getting dumb.

Google Reader

Oh my that is an odd link that someone followed from google reader.  Oy!

A New Theme

A new theme appeared on wordpress, and so did it on my blog.    ok, back to depressing homework.

a snippit from wartoad

I want to do the following:

I lived there 3x years just an hour from the base so I just stayed at home, but the base is lined with hotels/inns of all types.

It’s a straight forward trail up to the top, but make no mistake, it’s 6 hours of stair stepping and the final hour gets pretty steep. Then you have to come down and I consider the knee jarring down just as bad as the bun burning up. Try to be at least semi in shape, it’ll make the experience a heck of a lot better.

A nice experience is to get there around 8-9pm and start your ascent about 10pm. The trail is blazenly obvious so ddon’t worry about losing your way at night. All the way up you get grreat night views of Tokyo and Yokohama. You get to the top about 4am, theres a hut at the top you can get outragiously priced coffee, tea, ramen, and then around 4:30 to 5am you get an amazing sunrise over the pacific ocean. Take your pictures, enjoy the moment and the view, and begin the trek down.

Also, buy a wooden walking staff at the base. It’s very nice to use, but more so – every rest camp the entire treck up has an attendent who will burn in the altitude and camp name in kanji to the staff. It makes an awesome conversation piece when you get home. (I cut my staff in half to get it home)

Fair warning – Even in the dead of summer when it’s blazingly hot and humid when you start, it’s well below freezing at the top. A light jacket won’t cut it. You’re warm while you’re working out climbing, but take a break for 5 min and the shivers set in.

Is it worth it? Hell ya. How many people can say they’ve been to Japan? How many of them can say they’ve climbed Mt. Fuji also? It’s just a priceless experience.

“A wise man climbs Mt. Fuji once, a fool twice.” – Traditional folk saying.

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Remote Observations

Remote Observing tonight, and thus staying up all night.  Awesome UGH.  Keck ESI, how I wish I lived 12 hrs away from you…