Oh, Google

Google voice transcription of background noise when someone accidentally pocket dialed me:

Hey hey, how sorry bye. Hey, Just okay bye bye bye. Ciao. Thank you. Hello How, yeah Okay bye. Ohh okay, bye. But quo, okay bye bye, okay bye okay Kirk, bye. Cook please bye hey. Hello Hello. Hello. I think. Bye still talk, cost the commercial. Okay bye. Dick, call and Mark, dot, com hey, book. Hey check. Thanks, hey, spoke out bye drop left bye bye, back okay okay bye bye. Hey. Okay bye. Okay, bye Park City. Hey, hey. Hey, bye hey hey you, bye hey pitch. That's perfect book, good okay. I'll talk to you. If you are. I love you bye bye. What's up are you back bro. Hello, hey hello.

Clearly, Google expects a large fraction of phone messages to consist of "hey," "hello," "bye."

Research code is now open sourced

Well, after talking with a group of nuclear engineers who are interested in open sourcing their codes, and after being persuaded by my friend Mike that it was justifiable to return some of my tools to the taxpayers who've sponsored my education, I have decided to open up my research code. The project is called PyTRT, and it's available at GitHub under a Simplified BSD license. Documentation for PyTRT is available, but it is probably overwhelming. We'll see if this ever amounts to anything.

New design

Five years after this blog's inception, I've updated the appearance. I have too much else going on to make everything pixel-perfect, but its current state is satisfactory compared to the previous stale design.

Transition to new blogger

After some tedious and some not-quite-as-tedious work, I've transitioned my blog back to Blogspot hosting with the new dynamic page serving. In order to make links to my old pages (and google links) work correctly, I added this to my .htaccess file to change any links on my old blog to pages on my new blog, except to the googlebot (so that hopefully it won't lose records of where my pages are):

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/blog/labels/
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^.*Googlebot.* [NC]
RewriteRule ^blog/labels/(.*).html$ http://reference-man.blogspot.com/search/label/$1 [R,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/blog
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^.*Googlebot.* [NC]
RewriteRule ^blog/(.*)$ http://reference-man.blogspot.com/$1 [R,L]

MCNP

I spent most of last week and today learning MCNP and figuring out how to get it to do what I want. All I can say is that whenever we were unceremoniously thrown into the MCNP swimming hole in the hopes that we could swim, it would have been very nice to have these two primers.

New blog

I've been predicting the decay and downfall of MetaJournal for some time, what with the lack of admin support, the database problems, unreliable servers, and the decreased person quality. Ergo, I've finally made up a new Blogger journal (I'm not going to try to revive Black Smokers) to which I'll probably start posting any time soon.

View my old blog