There now follows a brief interlude of silliness, following my decision to tidy my desk. A tidy desk also means I have space to put things, can set my coffee down without making a circle on any papers, and have a nice ordered stack of thesis chapter drafts. That last one is so that they’ll intimidate me until I take care of them so that I can throw them in the recycling.
In the meantime, there were a number of faintly entertaining things which I found on my desk. Here are some of them. Everything that follows in this post was written down on a scrap of paper or a post-it and left, by me (or in a couple of cases by other people), on my desk. Some have been here for some time. Some even appear to be from my previous desk in my previous office!
I hope you find them as entertaining as I did…
Maximum overlap method
remember to e-mail people about stuff!
eV str
1.538 0.0772
2.0602 0.102
2.482 0.016
Robert Resnick – Special Relativity
Egg Nebula
There’s nothing interesting under here!
IAU – conference fee
Bert & Ernie
(serial numbers)
(several unnamed IP addresses)
3860Å
C₆₀
(an unlabelled international phone number with a country code I don’t recognise)
19.29 µm!
Calculate all the things!
(a list of what appear to be estimated prices for conference-related costs)
singlet/triplet
Δ = 0.041 eV
Van Hove transitions!!
N-heterocycles
atypical PAHs
– Titan!
Goebel, J.H. & Moseley, S.H.
1985, ApJ, 290, L35
Do check those calculations, won’t you?
[x₁:x₂,y₁:y₂]
biassec
[1:3162,2000:2050]
trimsec
[3:3160,10:1880]
HCN 14.04 µm
Dihedral angles
(A thesis request card from the library)
Imagination is more important than knowledge :)
Stuff to look @
NGC 7538
IRAS 20275+4001
BBRCG23
SH 2-140 IRS
C₂ (0,0)
5165.276 Å
C₂ (1,0)
4735.821 Å
C₃?
download the level 3 data!
Master flat – flatflat.fits
discount time
accepted → not accepted
(retroactive)
(some text, scrawled in an alphabet which resembles Avestan)
C₂H₂
HCN
Atypical PAHs
1 @ 906
Go home.
13.7 µm – QPR
→ acetylene
(also @ 7.5 µm – no Q)
3400 – 3671 Å
3658 – 3944 Å
3958 – 4196 Å
(± 30 Å)
0.127 arcsec/px
tan θ ⋅ adj = opp
7.7 | 9.1
21 | :33
