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Today was not a normal day. No, it wasn't Chicago getting 7 inches of snow (that only happens between zero and a dozen times a year). It wasn't CNN taking Jon Stewart's advice and canning crossfire. It was me exercising. Ran three miles - on a treadmill. My nose still itches.


Speaking of Crossfire, would CNN have eliminated it if Fox hadn't been kicking CNN's ass when it came to mudslinging debates masquerading as news? Were Jon's comments really what pushed it out, as the CNN CEO suggested, or had this been coming for a while, or both? Was it just because Tschmucker Carlson (right : mug) had been wanting to leave for months and had finally found a new network to pollute? Who cares.... wonder what Jon's next target's going to be... wonder which show's going to invite him next...

''Crossfire" began in 1982 and was once a mainstay of CNN's prime time... But as Fox News Channel perfected the format with popular hosts Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity, ''Crossfire" lost favor among CNN executives and was moved to the afternoons in 2002. It averages 447,000 viewers each weekday, down 21 percent from the previous season, according to Nielsen Media Research.... -- Boston Globe)

Made two kinds of showers, with primary particle an iron atom (see pic) and an electron. Also modified some code and documentation on the Aires Vis project page.

Hadn't realized the Google SOAP, and other goodies, were available from Matlab. Woohoo!

RegretTheError is funny.

Didnt do any hmsvm today. Did read a few page of Gussenhoven's book. Prosody reading group tomorrow.



Got an email from Daisuke Nagai, a final year cosmology grad student who wanted to know if his data could go on a geowall; I got it up there in a few minutes, and now he's going to generate more data so I can make a stereo animation of dark matter halo stuff. Should be fun! And he's going to use partiview for research, when he saw how quickly and nicely his data could be modified to an easily-visualized format.