Project progress & My New Toy…
Posted by Fyse on Thursday, 13 January 2005
Well, I’m making slow progress on the ‘Computational Physics’ project. In the end I decided to do one involving modeling the orbits of planets and asteroids, rather than percolation. This had less to do with the task being easier, but more that two friends had already started on it. Not that I’ve been copying, you understand, but it helps to have someone to bounce ideas off.
Another thing I will briefly mention is that my digital camera has now arrived. It’s a Sony Cybershot DSC-P73, and I’m really chuffed with it. (There’s that word ‘chuffed’ again!) I’d been pining for a digital SLR, but eventually concluded that my finances were not up to the expense just now. Instead, I went for a camera compact enough that when I do splash out an SLR, I’ll still have a use for the old one. The P73 also has a specially designed under-water housing, so when I get the chance to scuba dive again, I can equip myself for sub-aqua photography (relatively) cheaply.
I’d better leave it there. I need sleep if I’m gonna make any progress on my project tomorrow morning. Currently my program spews out an endlessly repeating loop of error messages every time I run it. This is not desirable…
Have fun with the new camera!
I just met up with an old friend who is getting his PhD in physics. You physics people are weird. Good luck with the project.
If you think physics people are wierd you should meet some mathematicians!!
He’s right, you know. They’re even worse.
Something’s going wrong, cos normally I get sent comments by email when people leave them. Yet I didn’t for there. Strange.