If things have seemed rather quiet around here again, it’s because I’m making a final big push to finish my math methods textbook by the end of December — the brainpower required to sort through the headaches of Bessel functions and Legendre polynomials has left little room for insightful physics posts!
This week, I’m hoping to have a more-or-less complete version of all chapters save one plus appendices, which should give me some breathing room. Provided that works out as planned, I should get back to some more detailed posts next week.
Once I’m back on track, I’ve got some nice and amusing history of science involving Lord Kelvin, my long-delayed post about the fiber optics Nobel prize research, and some more “optics basics” and “relativity” posts.
Skulls in the Stars 
Good luck! I’ve been trying to teach myself conformal field theory and the renormalization-group formalism for diffusion-limited reactions, so I know what not having the brainpower to blog feels like.
Argh! You’ve made me feel like a n00b, struggling over my Bessel functions!
I’m totally up for trying to arrange an MST3k showing at SciOnline’10, BTW!
I’m much better at making my hobbies sound impressive than I am at actually learning physics. I am typing up my notes as I go along, though, so I might get a book of some sort out of my efforts.
And I know I’ve got a DVD set of MST3k somewhere about the house. Hmmm, will have to look for that.
(I can also bring all three seasons of Avatar and/or the box set of The Prisoner.)
We must have identical DVD collections! You bring some Prisoner, and I’ll bring the MST3k! (I’ve also got all 3 seasons of Avatar!)
Deal!