David E. Bernholdt

This is my personal webspace, home to some of the stuff I suspect the management at work might consider insufficiently "businesslike" to include there.

• My "professional" homepage at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• I operate the Chemistry Software and Information Resources (CSIR, pronounced caesar) as a service to the chemistry community.
• My wife is in the Chemistry Department of the University of Tennessee

Humor...

• Dilbert & friends offer many useful insights into the "real" world. Some projects I'm involved in are too Dilbertian for comfort. At least I know they're not the only ones...
• People giving scientific talks or lectures sometimes say pretty funny things. I've collected some of the scientific humor I've heard. Maybe you'll think its funny too...or maybe you had to be there.
• Il Destino di Grant Application, an opera about the realities of science. This came to me n-th hand, but it seems to have been originally published in HMS Beagle, the online magazine of BioMedNet
• Do your company's policies on business travel resemble these?

Technology and Tools...

• I just got a 3Com Palm III (aka Palm Pilot), and it seems like an excellent replacement for my old paper calendar, addressbook, and notepad.
• I use Linux for computational chemistry software development
• I've made some notes of my experiences producing multi-platform CD-ROMs of web-based educational material.
• I used to live in Cortland, NY and although otherwise wonderful, as far as the Information Superhighway is concerned, it was like living in a shack at the end of a dirt road.
• Somewhat to my surprise, Knoxville, TN, with an order of magnitude larger population than Cortland also has its share of dirt roads on the Information Superhighway.

Travel...

We like to travel, and one of our major goals is to visit all of the UNESCO World Heritage sites. In recent years we have been to Central America numerous times, including visits to many Mayan sites. We have also taken up scuba diving, which tends to distract us from the World Heritage sites a little, but is a lot of fun. When I get some time, I'll expand this section.

• With so many weather sites on the Internet, you don't even need to look out the window any more, much less go outside! Check out this sampling of the Knoxville area weather.
• I strongly support public broadcasting, both TV (PBS, locally WKOP/WSJK) and radio (NPR, locally WUOT). When I had a very long commute, I was a member of three public radio stations: WSKG (Binghamton), WCNY (Syracuse), and WRVO (Oswego).
• All of the universities I have been affiliated with have had orange and blue as their colors (Illinois, Florida, Syracuse). I wonder how many other schools claim this strange combination of colors? Virginia, Auburn
  Even Tennessee, with which I'm affiliated by marriage is orange and white!
• Puzzle 1: At one point, I had computer systems named Columbia, Snake, and Yakima for the three rivers that intersect where I used to live. Can you figure out where?
  • Hint 1: Use the US Geological Survey's Geographical Names Information System.
  • Hint 2: Try looking at my resume to figure out where I've lived.
• Puzzle 2: I have another machine named Oppenheimer. Its named for a beach, which happens, in turn, to be named for a physicist. Do you know where it is? I wonder how many other places are named after scientists?
  • Non-hint 1: The USGS GNIS isn't much help on this one, especially as they don't seem to catalog many beaches. I guess you're on your own, sorry.
• Puzzle 3: Besides Oppenheimer, my wife and I also have computers named Drunk, Hawksnest, Jumby, Columbier, and Saline, also named for beaches we've been to. Do you know where they are?

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