Eric Drechsel @ Shared.Dre.am

Electricity & Magnetism today!

• Polarization
• Multipole expansion
• Laser polarization demos

Experimental Physics

http://www.physics.pdx.edu/~larosaa/PH-315/PH-315_webpage.html

What I need in order to comfortably use Drupal:

• Markdown input format
• Wiki-style linking
• Solr search, spanning several sites
• Free tagging with heirarchies, using “/” as delimiter
• Add metadata fields to a simple base content type

Paulina was showing me pictures of Nizhny Novgorod and Saint Petersburg.

Heading out of town to camp at Cascade Head, hoping to find a café with good intertubes nearby, and picking up an inverter for beach-side hacking.

Maybe moving by end of July? Inner Hawthorne will be a nice change of scene, although I will miss the meandering physics talks with Tim.

http://www.slate.com/id/2222745/
http://craigmod.com/journal/font-face/
http://www.thegridsystem.org/

Cycling Groups

• Cyclewild
• BTA Cycling Club List

Hiking Groups

• Mazamas List
• Trails Club

I was going to whip up a python script to sync music to my mass-storage phone, but since I am using Songbird on all my platforms, the little extra effort to make a Songbird sync plugin will pay off big for me, and also be useful to lots of others.

the spec

Works with: USB mass storage devices
Options:

• select connected device (persist selection?)
• select disk usage setting (min free space or total usage?)
• select playlists (these are songbird playlists, and may be ie mp3 blogs or rss feeds)

Behavior on sync:

• remove oldest items
• add newest items (so that disk usage is balanced among playlists or just so that newest items are available?)
• optional renaming to maintain original playlist order (ie sequence-based naming)