Terran Melconian

I like my women the way I like my coffee - tied up in a burlap sack and carried over the Andes on the back of a donkey. --unknown

Technical

Automatic Coffee Roaster (20091208): in which I build an automatic cofee roaster from a $5 popcorn popper and $100 in other parts.

Neon downconversion of laser wavelengths? (20090807): In which there are shiny things!

Two Attempts at Receiving Video (20090102): In which I attempt to receive unintentional radiation from a CRT (no success) and intentional analog TV (success)

Recommended Technical Books (20080808): A revised list of recommended technical books. I could not even find my previous list, so I decided it was time to compile a new one.

Blackberry 8820 Current Draw (20080505): Current consumption measurements on the Blackberry 8820 in various modes

Index of Older Technical

Personal

A few pictures from my trip (20100908): Some pictures from my trip to Atlantic Canada

I'm Having a Coffee Tasting (20090912): Email me for details if you're interested

Does Getting a Ph.D. Pay? (20090610): I have generally thought not, but recently stumblued quite by chance upon nearly all the data required to conduct an actual analysis and decided to do so.

Two Models for Social Networks (20090505): the village and the option

Working Through the Picture Backlog (2007) (20090404): Pictures from 2007... I'm only a little over a year behind!

Index of Older Personal

See Also

brightshiny.org, where I keep all things artistic.
The consistent.org front page, where I keep my philosophisizing.
Pages organized by date, category, or title.

About the Site and Author

What's consistent.org about?: A brief description of my intentions with consistent.org. Also, a list of consistent.org machine and the explanations of their names.
Public Keys: Have an ssh key, and a pgp key, and a gpg key, and my front door key, and...
The .shtml extension: For the very curious or very bored, an explanation of why most pages here end in .shtml.
My Resume: Read about what I've done. You could even offer me a job if you wanted!
Where am I?: This is a simple script which will finger me at several hosts on which I'm sometimes found, and tell you if there are any for which my idle time is reasonably low.

Money and Gunpowder

This page most recently modified on: Friday, 19-Dec-2008 12:24:50 EST

the w3c sucks, but this page is still valid

Copyright (C) 2008 by Terran Melconian. You may mirror this page for personal use. All other rights reserved.
Contact, unfortunately now obfuscated due to ongoing spammer harvesting, is [myfirstname] at consistent.org.