I don’t normally think of Ann Arbor as a tourist destination, but if I were going to spend a week in a cute city visiting museums and attending concert, I could certainly do worse! That said, I think it’s really cool that they’ve got a Frank Lloyd Wright house available as a vacation rental.
“The Palmer [...]
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Ann Arbor’s Newest Boutique Lodging
Engines of Inquiry
For my final paper in HIS 420, I wrote about the history of statistical graphics. It’s pretty awesome stuff; I’ve been fascinated since I discovered Edward Tufte’s commentaries on good graphical practices, but delving into the historical tradition has been even more exciting. Here’s my argument, for the curious:
Today’s simplest and most familiar statistical graphics [...]
SpaceShipWondrous
I touched the door of SpaceShipOne today!
…and renewed my formerly somewhat dormant interest in space. I’m writing a paper for my entrepreneurship class on Orion Propulsion, which is where I encountered said door, and the new private aerospace industry. It’s amazing how much this made me wish that I could turn things back four [...]
No CEE in NOLA?!
I’ve been following the rebuilding of New Orleans rather closely, both because of my thesis research and my lingering interest in Tulane. However, not that closely, as it took me until today to find out about Tulane’s Renewal Plan. Basically, as one might expect, the plan aims to trim things down a bit in order [...]
Like Water for Chocolate
As many of you have heard, I’ve learned to make awesome chocolate truffles this summer. Fortunately, I was successful the first time, or I might not have gone on to create more delectable varieties, but it’s a challenge to get the coating the right texture [...]
What I’ve Been Doing All Summer
The abstract to the final paper I wrote for my REU:
The seasonal moisture content variation of a subgrade soil is vital to pavement design because it affects the soil’s resilient modulus (Mr), a property listed as critical in the AASHTO 2002 Pavement Design Guide. However, the relationship between [...]
Because That’s Exactly the Kind of Advice We Provide
I was just looking on StatCounter to check web traffic for all the websites I administrate. Apparently some random person landed on the Engineering Council website by Googling the words “how to woo a lady stylishly.” Heh.
Another View of the Venus Transit
I know the Transit of Venus is old news. But for all of you who didn’t see it, or who thought you saw all there was to see through your cheap binoculars, I highly recommend the Venus Transit Gallery at SpaceWeather. To be honest, I’m used to photographs of celestial phenomena taken from earth [...]
Matlab Takes On the Graphing Calculator
My high school abolished its tiny, underenrolled computer science department shortly after I graduated, to my great consternation. I’m of the opinion that introductory computer science ought to be required of high schoolers, so I’ve been thinking lately about ways to revive it. (I’ve been on a lot of education rants lately for some reason…)
The [...]
Showing Off
I’m becoming quite proud of how my little My Favorite Molecule (MFM) website for CEE 303 is shaping up. There’s finally enough information up to justify linkage and a submission to Google. I’d encourage you all to take a look, if only because StatCounter logs boost my ego.
You might even learn something in the process. [...]