I Hate Skittles

Holy Snapping Duck Do! I just had a cup of tea and realized I have not updated this since long before Shakespeare wast a boy… You would not believe how insane my life has become. Apologies to my regular readers! Even the little blue ones!.

I am lost in a sea of pseudo-olde-english, discovering time doesn’t stand still, learning to speak Japanese, just generally being a terrible burden to anyone unfortunate to cross my path.  My day is a magical flight from the second I am woken by murderous Teletubbies, until I run out of alcohol. I am not being a whinging Pom or anything. I just need a nap.

I swear on the bones of my ancestors I will write something that makes sense soon. You have my word! Don’t hold your breath though, you’re likely to turn blue..

Special thanks to The Lazy Bloggers Post Generator.

Hi everyone! It’s been awhile, how are the kids? Anyways, after a couple months brake, I’m continuing the blog. First things first, I’ve got a new part time job working as a barista for Day Star Coffee (did I mention I built their website). I’ll be posting pictures of my latte art soon. Drop by in the mornings and I’ll make you a cup. That’s it for me right now. Later…

Finales this year for me have been their longest and most devastating. But now they are over and I am home. Though I start work soon, I believe I will have much more time and energy to give here then when I was in school.

And now the major updates:

I am no longer or will at any point in the future be a resident assistant! I’ve had mixed feelings for this occupation as my staff was amazing and in whole, I found it a very rewarding job. However, Resident Life, the organization that runs on campus housing at the University, was neither amazing or rewarding. I do believe that this will be the topic of many posts to come, and for quite some time as for many of my friends have remained RAs.

Anyways on to the good news. For those of you who don’t know me and somehow managed upon this blog, I am an astronomer, or at least consider myself to be one. About one year ago, while getting a light curve for a previously known extra-solar-planet, we happened upon a feature in the data. This feature had been seen once before and was explained as a starspot. However our feature seemed to be the same length, position and magnitude as the previous one.

To make a long story short we were very intrigued, as where some people higher up, so we were able to get more telescope time, 4 days spread throughout may. The first night was bad; the elevator broke, the motor on the focus broke and and the little things made it so that we went home even before the transit occurred. On the second night it was cloudy. We were able to get some data but the signal to noise was so low were not sure what we could really make of it. The third night was amazing. All thorough the early night clouds were making us pretty nervous, but an hour before the transit began, the sky became crystal clear and were were getting .8 arc second seeing. And the best part is that the feature was back in it’s right place and right size. This is very exciting and I will be anxiously reducing the data and giving you updates for the next several weeks.

Sorry world.  Not a lot of activity this week here.  Finals are coming up and physics is a cruel mistress.  Hopefully more soon!

Have you ever typed in a long command into your linux terminal only for it to come back: error, you must have super user privileges?

Now correcting this is as easy as sudo !! Literaly on the next line type:

sudo !!

This will repeat the previous line as if you had put sudo out front from the beginning.

The way this works is through the magic of “!!”.  Basically all this does is repeat the last line on the CLI.  For example:

$ "hello world"
bash: hello world: command not found
$ echo !!
echo "hello world"
hello world

There is also a cool little built in search function as well.  All you do is instead of the second !, put the first letter of the comand you actually want:

$ apt-get install grep
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
$ echo "another command"
another command
$ sudo !a
sudo apt-get install grep
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
grep is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Enjoy saving time!!