Does my head look big in this?

Another week gone. Made some good progress at work today though. Must continue this weekend.
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There's nothing more fun then walking your pet.

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A Klingon Stout

I absolutely must brew this at some point:

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Klingon Stout

Beer Style:	stout, prune juice
Recipe Type:	extract
Description: OK I'll admit that I'm a Star Trek fan, especially the Next Generation. One of my favorite moments on that show came when someone offered Worf, the fierce Klingon, a taste of prune juice. He tasted it and then with surprise and enthusiasm, declared it to be "a warriors drink". In that moment, a recipe was concieved. Before all the prune juice jokes start, let me point out two things. Number one, the laxative effect of prune juice is due to it's fiber content, most of which settles out following fermentation. Number two(sorry, I couldn't help myself) , this recipe contains only 2 qt prune juice out of a 5 gal (20 qt ) batch, or 10%. Thus a 12 oz bottle contains 1.2 oz of prune juice; not enough to trouble most GI systems. I originally intended this as a sort of novelty brew, but it came out excellent. The prune juice adds a velvety smoothness sort of like oatmeal stout. Next time I might dry hop. Let me know what you think. You will be a merry man! (That's not sexist--another Trek reference).
Ingredients: 6.6 lb dark malt extract syrup 1 lb crushed crystal malt 1/2 lb black patent malt 1/3 lb roasted barley 1.5 oz Northern Brewers hops--boil 60 min. 1 oz Tettnanger hops --finishing last 2 min. 2 quarts prune juice WITH NO PRESERVATIVES!!!! ale yeast 3/4 c. corn sugar to prime
Procedure: Steep grains 30 min at 150F. Strain into brew pot and rinse with one gal hot water. Add extract, boiling hops and additional gal. water and boil 1 hr. Add finishing hops last 2 min. Turn off heat and add prune juice to pasteurize for 10 min(probably not necessary since the juice is already pasteurized ). Pour into primary fermenter and top with cold water up to 5 gal. Pitch yeast when cool. Rack to secondary a week later. Bottle when ready. Age at least 4 wk.
Submitted by: Paul Busman"

Source:

Klingon Stout .:. BeerRecipes.org

The past few weeks have been interesting, to say the least. At work, I managed to put together a working timer to control the DAQ for my detector, but I am still trying to see how fast I can push it. I'm aiming for 1 microsecond time resolution, which doesn't seem impossible, but relies enitrely on how fast Xilinx has made their standard input/output commands. The bottleneck for speed lies in that it will take a finite amount of time to read in each of the pixel's scalars, and I need to find out what time that is.

Without realizing it, I implemented functionality within my timer firmware to allow for exactly this. I'm both excited and made nervous by this. If the read time is really slow, rather than use an embedded processor, I might have to implement everything directly in hardware language. I *think* I would be able to do the ethernet controller this way, but I'm fairly certain it's unfeasible to write a DDR memory controller.

If it's not fast enough I may have to look into setting up a dual core system, or using a kernel or something.

Now that the code is compiled, it's off to the lab I go.

VERITAS in action.

T3 in all her glory.

YouTube
- VERITAS Time-Lapse Movie

It blows my mind how bright the moon is, regardless of long exposure times.

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Take a look at number 12.

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