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Last Week Craziness

1 year ago

by abarna in HPU Blog Mirror

Last week I drove to San Jose from San Diego to pick my brother up from the school (college) he is attending. To make things even more insane I drove back on the same day. For those of you wondering about distance, that would be a whole 1500km total. I started at 0500 at made it to San Jose around 1300. I stopped in Gilroy to see if I could get a garlic braid, but they weren’t available yet. After packing the car and eating at the famous Smoke Eaters we watched a film made by my brothers friends titled “Imposting Disbelief”. After an 8 hour drive home, sleep. I will be driving back to San Jose on the 10th of next month.

-Andrew

Memorial Day

1 year ago

by abarna in HPU Blog Mirror

So I’m a bit late with this… but better late than never.
Every memorial day I go out to Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery where I place flags in front of grave markers. I have always placed flags in front of the same set of stones and even met the family of one of the people buried (not this year but previous years). They were happy to learn that I was the one who always made sure their father’s (and grandfather’s in the case of the kids) had a flag properly placed in font of his marker.

This year I noticed that the same marker had a new inscription on it, on reading it I realized that it was the wife of the man who was buried. I realized that I had met her, with her family, visiting her husbands grave. This year their grave received extra care.

Scripps Surf #5

1 year ago

by abarna in Periodic Video, Summer 2010 SIO Surf

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Scripps Surf #4

1 year ago

by abarna in Periodic Video, Summer 2010 SIO Surf

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The dark stuff is seaweed (mostly kelp).

Scripps Surf #3

1 year ago

by abarna in Periodic Video, Summer 2010 SIO Surf

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Scripps Surf #2

1 year ago

by abarna in Periodic Video, Summer 2010 SIO Surf

This was taken today around noon… we are in summer surf mode.

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Second First Day at Scripps

1 year ago

by abarna in HPU Blog Mirror

I’m back!

Today was my second first day at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) in San Diego. I will be working at SIO for the summer while on holiday(?) from HPU. I will primarily be doing programing for the CCHDO. I’m just getting spun up on the specifics so more details to come. What I know for sure I’ll be doing is producing at least one more video for the Virtual Cruise project and really cleaning up the code that drives the back end stuff. It was a bit rushed as I was leaving last summer to return to HPU. For now. Have some photos of the building I work in.

This is Isaacs Hall home to the CCHDO, Shipboard Technical Support (STS) and CDIP (there are some other people too).

It might be traditional to place pine cones in places around the building. I don’t know who actually does is, but I have been known to “repair” pine cones that have fallen down.

-Andrew

CCHDO HPU Scripps

Scripps Surf #1

1 year ago

by abarna in Periodic Video, Summer 2010 SIO Surf

So here is a new summer project I want to try. Today was my first day at Scripps, which happens to be right next to the ocean. Since I go look at the surf almost every day anyway… why not record it every day and post it here. I think it will be interesting to see how the conditions differ form day to day over the summer.