Welcome to the personal homepage of...
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.
| Humor... |
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- 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...
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- 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... |
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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.
| Other items of interest (or
not)... |
- 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?
- 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?
Last updated $Date: 2001/10/08 20:25:38 $