Hannah’s profile has been posted to Petfinder, so she’s out there for everybody to check out. Hopefully someone will be interested in her and she’ll find a forever home soon. Maybe that could be you!
She really is a great dog and will make a wonderful pet for someone.
Sailing Physics
Finally got around to reading through the February issue of Physics Today. There was an article on the physics of sailing that was an interesting read. Lots of interesting physics involved in sailing and designing sailboats that I’m sure most sailors probably don’t think much about. It never really occurred to me, but a sail is basically a large wing and operates the same way to move a boat through water.
If you’re into sailing, it’s definitely worth checking out.
Hannah’s first dog park visit
The dog park is usually pretty wet and mucky after it rains, but I thought I’d take the dogs out there anyway. Since it’s all fenced in, it’s a perfect spot to see how Hannah behaves off-leash.
As expected, Hannah is quite the ball fiend and will happily chase after the ball until she wears herself out. Sometimes she even brings it back too!
The hard part was trying to keep her from using the mud puddles for cooling off. Not entirely successful, but with labs you can never keep them out of the water.
Overall, Hannah was very well behaved and was even pretty decent at coming when I called her.
Now all the dogs are nice and tired and snoozing very peacefully.
Hard Drive Dissection Part 4
The latest drives to fall victim to my screwdriver are 4 of these 9 GB IBM SCSI drives. These drives actually contained the first incarnation of radinfo and were pulled out of the Dell server that served as radinfo for about 5 years. These drives date back to 1999 as can be seen on the label.
It’s a much larger drive than modern ones and pretty hefty. There are 24 screws that need to be removed for complete disassembly.
Darned clouds
Last night’s eclipse watching was a bit of a bust where I was. Started off ok with some thin cirrus clouds, but getting towards the partial eclipse, the clouds started getting thicker and obscured my view of the moon. I decided to call it a night around 10ish with a last glimpse of a reddish-orange moon just as totality was starting. Then the moon disappeared behind more clouds.