Archive for June, 2006

Sail around the world

Sunday, June 18th, 2006

One thing I’ve always wanted to do is sail around the world. Yeah pretty cliched, but think of all the places I’d see. Just for the fun of it I planned a route. Naturally it runs primarily through the tropics, mostly because it is warmer and sailing is more fun in tropical climates, but also […]

Semester #4 over

Friday, June 9th, 2006

Semester #4 ends tomorrow. This has been the toughest semester so far, but also the most enjoyable, I think. Galaxies and the cosmos is a fascinating and broad subject. I finally understand all the different types of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) now, whereas before I didn’t realise there was a unified model to explain quasars, […]