...isn't my favorite day. Didn't get much done today and yet I'm really tired. If you're curious about what I'm doing these days, I spend most of my time staring at stuff like this. That's a quiver plot of the wind after 24 hours simulated time. It's from my most successful run yet since I'm pretty confident I can see convection cells in there and as time progresses they seem to merge into larger scale motion. I'm running almost the same simulation again right now, but saving the output at shorter intervals so that I can hopefully get a better idea of what happens. And hopefully before this week is over I'll have run my first simulation on the SGI. I'm planning to use pretty much the same settings but with finer resolution. Which will make it even more difficult to grasp the output. To give you an idea, the output of this latest very modest run, only saving the output every eight hours of totally 96 hours simulated time, gave 200 MB of unformatted binary data (and takes the poor old computer I'm using 12+ hours). Luckily I now have most of the machinery needed to digest it in place in Matlab. I'm still not very good at visualising large 3D arrays though.
There, that's a short insight in the glorious fun I'm having ^^ I hope you're adequately jealous.

Anyway, on to something completely different. Time to keep a promise (see that last sneaky line there):

1. Reply with your name and I'll respond with something random about you.
2. I'll tell you what song/film reminds me of you.
3. I'll pick a flavour of jelly to wrestle with you in.
4. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me.(I'll probably skip this one, I can barely think of anything that'd only make sense to me and anybody.)
5. I'll tell you my first memory of you.
6. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of.
7. I'll ask you something that I've always wondered about you.
8. If I do this for you, you must post this on your journal.

And to answer your questions Zoe
6) A jellyfish. Why would I think that?
Could it possibly have something to do with my jellyfish avatar and the copious use of jellyfishes in this blog design? ^^
7) Why physics? Do you like pain?
Don't you know? My mind's sharp enough to draw blood from a stone, so I need something to keep it occupied or I'll hurt myself.
Seriously though, I've come to question my decision to study physics more and more frequently the last couple of years. I started with it mostly because it's an area where I've turned out to have a bit of talent and it's a little late to back out now ;)

Listening to: Tom Waits - Earth Died Screaming