The day after Christmas…
Well, it’s the day after Christmas. I was busy last night, moving files around, and so I slept in until 2:00pm. That felt good. I woke up and checked my e-mail. I had an e-mail from Tom Gaisser at Bartol (the PI [Primary Investigator] for IceTop.) saying that I did a good job on getting the data, then asked “What analysis do you plan to do with it?” That surprised me a bit, because I thought I was just supposed to take the data, not analyze it. But, no worries, I already wrote a program for my tank at River Falls that I can modify to read this data. So, that’s my project for tomorrow. It will also let me try out the new development package for MacOS 10.3. In that way, my weekend just got more interesting.
My other project, freezing these two IceTop tanks, got a significant boost today, as the weather went from clear skies and no wind to overcast skies and a steady wind. That doesn’t sound like a good thing, but when you’re trying to freeze 1000 gallons of water, it’s a big help.
Not much interesting happened today besides that. Just work.
Thanks for visiting my site,
-Jonathan
December 27th, 2003 at 4:26 am
Why would you want to freeze 1000 gallons of water when you are sitting on a couple miles of pure ice? Is this is referred to as the Ice Top part of the Ice Cube project or is Ice top a separate project, can you clarify this for us? What was the data at the Pole gathered from, what part of the project is that? How is this data gathered at the Pole different from what you have done at River Falls? What is “moving files”? Computer files or files in cabinets? Where did you move them? All of this may be understood without further explanation for those of you involved in the Projects, but to many of us it is all new information and we may want more information to better understand what this is all about.
Glad to hear of your progress and that others have confidence in you to give you more to do. Keep up the good work.
Dad
December 27th, 2003 at 4:38 am
Site visits. Noticed that your site has made a new high for monthly “Visits” with an increse noted about the time of the Weblog beginning and there are a few days remaining in the month of December. Obvioulsy many people are interested in what is happening.
Dad
December 27th, 2003 at 1:16 pm
Hi Jon — really enjoying your entries. The photos were terrific. Capturing data and ensuring its accuracy is a critical role, for sure — glad to hear you’re doing a great job (I had no doubt). In my world of medical device trials, collecting the data is part one… deciphering the data and identifying statistical significance is part two… turning the analysis into meaningful information is part three… and finally, presenting it in a clear, concise, and meaningful way is part four (that’s my job as communications manager.) So… I was pleased to hear that you’re moving up the ladder:-)
Keep the info coming… where are those pesky neutrinos?