I started off this quarter ending my random listening. I wanted to listen to certain artists I really enjoyed. I figured I could go back to random once I got bored of choosing the artists I was listening to. Additionally, in between picking certain artists if I wanted to hear a certain song, I started going through my library alphabetically by artist. Let’s see how these trends panned out over the quarter.

Another physics experiment for today’s Top 200 Photo

photo #90 is:

Another attempt at the physics stroboscopic shots. This time the pen fell too quickly so a lot of the images are in the bounce at the bottom.

Computer graveyard in today’s Top 200 Photos

photo #91 is:

These are some old computer parts I had lying around. They were broken and I think I was saving them as teaching tools. I think I threw them out before we moved. It’s a graphics card, sound card, and hard drive.

Let them eat cake in today’s Top 200 Photo

photo #92 is:

Dina is a cake-decorating prodigy. This cake does not do any justice to her abilities, but she had to bring it all the way from NYC so anything too 3D was out of the question. Still the attention to detail here is pretty awesome.

Mathematical constructs in today’s Top 200 Photo.

photo #93 is:

I think my flickr description is adequate:

Skipping the first number in the Fibonacci series (which is 0), each picture is displayed as many times as the Fibonacci number at that point. So the first picture is displayed 1 time and the 13th picture is displayed 233 times.

I created this using a Perl script and my photos.

Once again we arrive at the USA’s Capital for today’s Top 200 Photo.

photo #94 is:

I spoke about the Cherry Blossom Festival early in this project (/2011/02/09/top-200-photos-195/). This is a panorama I constructed of about a quarter of the tidal basin that gives a good idea of what the cherry blossoms look like.

Tampa for today’s Top 200 Photo.

photo #95 is:

Just a lazy day at my parents’ house with my little brother hanging around.

Once again a trip to Cornell during the winter for today’s Top 200 Photo.

photo #96 is:

This photo was taken during my freshman year with my brand new digital camera. That was actually a very mild winter. So mild, in fact, that my cross country skiing class became a hiking class. It did NOT prepare me for the rest of my time at Cornell. This dorm, where I stayed my freshman year, was brand new that year. It actually had air conditioning!

Science! In today’s Top 200 Photo

photo #97 is:

I mentioned before that one of the things I love about photography is the ability to allow you to see things you couldn’t otherwise see. In that photo I mentioned using photoshop to allow the photo to display changes in time as well as showing the other 3 dimensions. In this photo, I did not use photoshop. Instead I used stroboscopic photography. I was so excited when I found out my 580 EX was capable of these types of shots. I’d always seen them in my physics textbooks and I wanted to emulate them. This is from one of my first experiments with this type of photography.

Here are your new desktop backgrounds for July 2011!

Just click on the one that matches your monitor type and then either right-click and set as desktop or save it to your computer and save it as your desktop manually.

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[caption id=“attachment_4691” align=“aligncenter” width=“480” caption=“July 2011 - 1680x1050 - desktop background for Widescreen Monitor”] [/caption]