Archive for March 19th, 2008

entropy

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

I’ve always felt a little vindicated by entropy, and have always enjoyed when it comes up in science classes. We are talking about it again today.
 So the second law of thermodynamics says that all irreversible processes result in an increase of entropy, constantly adding to the overall entropy of the universe. 
Have you heard that they […]

ebooks

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

So I bought my first digital text book, which I thought was cool.  Last semester one of my textbooks had a PDF of the text on CD that I loved, it was easy to search for information and convenient to bring to class (since I bring my lappy anyway)
 I was excited about the ebook, but […]

The ultimate getaway car

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

You know how when you get a new cell phone, you seem to see the phone everywhere or when you buy some new shoes, you notice everyone who has the same shoes.  Recently I started driving an old Honda Civic and I noticed that they are everywhere.  Everywhere.
The other thing I noticed was that there are civics, […]