q dash m dot org » mpj http://q-m.org It stands for "my domain is shorter than your domain" Fri, 28 May 2010 07:45:49 +0000 en hourly 1 Culinary adventures in France http://q-m.org/2008/03/28/culinary-adventures-in-france/ http://q-m.org/2008/03/28/culinary-adventures-in-france/#comments Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:44:26 +0000 mpj http://q-m.org/2008/03/28/culinary-adventures-in-france/ Fifty grams of fat?

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]]> http://q-m.org/2008/01/25/fpga-test/feed/ 1 If you need to monitor the boot process of a security-sensitive system… http://q-m.org/2007/11/09/if-you-need-to-monitos-the-boot-process-of-a-security-sensitive-system/ http://q-m.org/2007/11/09/if-you-need-to-monitos-the-boot-process-of-a-security-sensitive-system/#comments Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:32:28 +0000 mpj http://q-m.org/2007/11/09/if-you-need-to-monitos-the-boot-process-of-a-security-sensitive-system/ …do it off-screen. Sometimes obscurity helps.

]]> http://q-m.org/2007/11/09/if-you-need-to-monitos-the-boot-process-of-a-security-sensitive-system/feed/ 0 Greetings from Rye http://q-m.org/2007/09/02/greetings-from-rye/ http://q-m.org/2007/09/02/greetings-from-rye/#comments Sun, 02 Sep 2007 10:34:13 +0000 mpj http://q-m.org/2007/09/02/greetings-from-rye/ 20070902-113412-1.jpg ]]> http://q-m.org/2007/09/02/greetings-from-rye/feed/ 0 New phone, new content http://q-m.org/2007/08/29/new-phone-new-content/ http://q-m.org/2007/08/29/new-phone-new-content/#comments Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:07:07 +0000 mpj http://q-m.org/2007/08/29/new-phone-new-content/ I just got my N95 today. I’ve set up the blog to automatically put up photos and videos I send it. Look out for some more multimedia in the future.

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]]> http://q-m.org/2007/08/29/new-phone-new-content/feed/ 0 At the local library http://q-m.org/2007/08/19/at-the-local-library/ http://q-m.org/2007/08/19/at-the-local-library/#comments Sun, 19 Aug 2007 22:02:37 +0000 mpj http://q-m.org/post/45
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]]> http://q-m.org/2006/08/23/site-update-in-progress/feed/ 0 Father, two sons, and the holy ghost http://q-m.org/2006/08/21/father-two-sons-and-the-holy-ghost/ http://q-m.org/2006/08/21/father-two-sons-and-the-holy-ghost/#comments Mon, 21 Aug 2006 02:25:31 +0000 mpj http://q-m.org/wp/post/26 Doesn’t that sound like an average family?

You know how at Christmas when Santa Claus is very busy, he has assistant Santas to help him. In the same way, Jesus will probably be rather busy during the Rapture, what with the sorting of people, so he might need some assistants. For the bloggers covering the event, Wikipedia offers some useful grammatical advice:

If it is ever needed, the plural (belonging to a number of Jesuses) would be Jesuses’.

So now we know.

]]> http://q-m.org/2006/08/21/father-two-sons-and-the-holy-ghost/feed/ 0 Men are pigs. Physicists doubly so. http://q-m.org/2006/08/20/men-are-pigs-physicists-doubly-so/ http://q-m.org/2006/08/20/men-are-pigs-physicists-doubly-so/#comments Sun, 20 Aug 2006 01:07:25 +0000 mpj http://q-m.org/wp/post/25 I found an interesting quote here a few months back. It has got to be the most staggering example of a complete misunderstanding of, well, pretty much everything. It discusses the fact that Physics is much more successful in modelling the behaviour of solids than of fluids. This should be obvious to anyone with basic understanding of elementary school Physics.

The page explains: "According to the psychoanalyst and feminist thinker Luce Irigaray the difficulty with turbulence is not mathematical nonlinearity but the fact that research in physics is mainly performed by men."

The privileging of solid over fluid mechanics, and indeed the inability of science to deal with turbulent flow at all, [Luce Irigaray] attributes to the association of fluidity with femininity. Whereas men have sex organs that protrude and become rigid, women have openings that leak menstrual blood and vaginal fluids. … These idealizations are reinscribed in mathematics, which conceives of fluids as laminated planes and other modified solid forms. In the same way that women are erased within masculinist theories and language, existing only as not-men, so fluids have been erased from science, existing only as not-solids.

Source: Hayles, N. K. (1992) Gender encoding in fluid mechanics: masculine channels and feminine flows. Differences: a journal of feminist cultural studies. 4 (2), 16 – 44.

I tried to track down Hayles’s original paper, without success. I guess I should be relieved that no college within the University of London subscribes to publications of this academic quality. Nonetheless, if someone can get a hold of this, I would love a copy!

]]> http://q-m.org/2006/08/20/men-are-pigs-physicists-doubly-so/feed/ 0 Even more accurate predictions! http://q-m.org/2006/08/17/even-more-accurate-predictions/ http://q-m.org/2006/08/17/even-more-accurate-predictions/#comments Thu, 17 Aug 2006 03:37:57 +0000 mpj http://q-m.org/wp/post/24 From the Telegraph:

Jonathan Cainer, a leading newspaper astrologer, said the changes [in planet classification] did not undermine his work and that of fellow practitioners.

“We astrologers have long known and been predicting the announcement of new planets,” he said last night.

“These changes do not mean that the predictions we have been making have been wrong. But they do mean that in future we will be able to make predictions that we would not previously have been able to make.”

“Every time a new celestial body is found, it signals major technological changes, so Pluto coincided with the splitting of the atom and Neptune with the invention of photography.”

“Pluto is traditionally the planet of all things nuclear and disastrous. I predict we will see a discovery that will almost certainly see nuclear fusion becoming viable within the next 18 months.”

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