Ah, they've finally declared. Australia. Vs India. On day 3 of the second test. They have been piling up so much runs, even the Australian fans started feeling they should declare already. That is supposed to be my break when I would write today's blog. India will lose this game, but how humiliatingly is what we have to see. On the other side of the planet, Sri Lanka is being punished by Kallis & Co. Bad time to be an Asian. At least Sri Lanka have won their previous game quite decisively.
Cricket apart, how was the day today? I would say it was much better than yesterday. Not that I accomplished much, but because I made efforts. I locked myself in the XRD room and I did all that I could to solve the crystal structure. Everything was so frustratingly difficult. I don't know how I got into this. Apparently I'm someone who knows more than anybody else in the group about crystallography, but that isn't enough. We look for easier problems. We do not have an experts on our midst who could teach us or at least point us in the right direction for finding the solution. Anyhow, that's how it went. It was crystallography all day. Did I learn anything new? Not really. I found out that I have overlooked some important points before finishing a structure in the past. When we started using this instrument, we were so amazed how good the software was at guessing the structure for us, we missed out on some important information: 2 theta. We never really checked what 2 theta was. It was also because I hadn't really "finished" a structure for publication on my own. Now that I had, I look at all the information before writing a structure off. This blog has become increasingly and vaguely technical.
After buying the camera, I have started looking at things differently. Everything that pans out in front of me becomes a photograph. I start to "compose" the scene in my mind, and calculate all things that would favor and work against a good photo. Our University Tower at night is a fine example. The admin has installed new focus lights and now the whole tower sort of lights up at night. I imagine to take a picture of this beautiful tower, but all the other street lights would definitely spoil the scene. I should give it a try one day, I mean, one night.
Cricket apart, how was the day today? I would say it was much better than yesterday. Not that I accomplished much, but because I made efforts. I locked myself in the XRD room and I did all that I could to solve the crystal structure. Everything was so frustratingly difficult. I don't know how I got into this. Apparently I'm someone who knows more than anybody else in the group about crystallography, but that isn't enough. We look for easier problems. We do not have an experts on our midst who could teach us or at least point us in the right direction for finding the solution. Anyhow, that's how it went. It was crystallography all day. Did I learn anything new? Not really. I found out that I have overlooked some important points before finishing a structure in the past. When we started using this instrument, we were so amazed how good the software was at guessing the structure for us, we missed out on some important information: 2 theta. We never really checked what 2 theta was. It was also because I hadn't really "finished" a structure for publication on my own. Now that I had, I look at all the information before writing a structure off. This blog has become increasingly and vaguely technical.
After buying the camera, I have started looking at things differently. Everything that pans out in front of me becomes a photograph. I start to "compose" the scene in my mind, and calculate all things that would favor and work against a good photo. Our University Tower at night is a fine example. The admin has installed new focus lights and now the whole tower sort of lights up at night. I imagine to take a picture of this beautiful tower, but all the other street lights would definitely spoil the scene. I should give it a try one day, I mean, one night.
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