I’d like to wish a Happy and Successful New Year to all readers, whether you be regular, occasional or first time visitors! In a very short time, you’ve all helped make this blog into a pleasant, informative, and fun place to visit (certainly for me).
I’d hoped that this could be -and it has indeed become, with your help- a place that you can come into, kick off your shoes, and settle down for a while in a comfy chair in the company of others, sometimes take part in (or just listen to) a bit of conversation, or just browse the reading and viewing materials at your leisure.
I hope we’ll continue our community in 2007.
Thanks to all of you.
-cvj
(The image -captured in the garden just now- is a kind of botanical version of the sort of starbursts that you might see in fireworks quite a bit in the next several hours. I also rather like the idea of pockets of pleasant green bursting forth, here, there, and everywhere.)
My biologist daughter insisted that I set this photo as my background image on the computer, so we’ll be starting the new year with botanical starbursts. Happy New Year.
Excellent! Check your email! I’ve sent you a larger version for your personal use, in case you want it!
Cheers,
-cvj
Happy New Year to you too, Clifford! I’ve watched your blog bloom from a shiny offshoot to a comfy garden of veritable delights. Thank you for sharing the wondrous things that strike your fancy, so that ours may be struck as well. Congratulations on your successful blog, it’s become a perfect retreat!
Yes, this post is a perfect example of why I enjoy your blog. You have a warm, open heart that comes clearly through your writing, which makes you accessible, and your posts all that more pleasurable.
Moreover, you “get” what blogging should be all about — sharing goes both ways, including both bloggers as well as readers/commenters. Rather than posting a self-congratulatory, “look-at-all-that-I’ve-done-this-year-aren’t-I-so-wonderful” list (this trap catches some of the more self-indulgent), I really like that you took this opportunity to acknowledge and appreciate your readers.
And a happy Echeveria to you too!
Happy new year Clifford. And thanks!
Thanks for the larger version of the photo, Clifford. My daughter thanks you too! It’s definitely better for wallpaper in the larger version (I tiled the smaller one). Happy New Year from Colorado.
All the best in the new year Clifford
Happy new year!
I’ve enjoyed reading many of your posts such as the following one:
http://cosmicvariance.com/2005/09/08/bad-physics-joke-explained-part-i/
What I like most about it is how you give some quantitative idea of when general relativity becomes important; before that I had some vague notion of “when matter density is high”.
Thanks!
Clifford or others,
Sorry to be off-topic, but a post today at Cosmic Variance asked for my favorite posts and your post (link in #8) came up and I thought I would mention it in #8. I had an elementary question about the link I gave in #8. I think when the object reaches Schwarzschild radius is a more “extreme indicator” that general relativity becomes important, correct? Is there a more “sensitive indicator”. Like in quantum mechanics there is this rule of thumb that if out of the mechanics you are studying you can make a quantity with the units of action and if that quantity ~ h/2pi then quantum effects are important. (From “A Review of Undergraduate Physics” Bayman, Hamermesh). Is there a rule similar to this for general relativity? It seems like in regions of high mass density but about how high? I am sorry if this isn’t very clear.
Thanks!
Happy New Year’s to you Clifford, and thank you for the lovely salon you’ve created for us at asymptotia.
Happy New Year to you Clifford, and indeed the rest of the community. May this year continue to be enlivened by your posts. It’s been a delight to watch the blog grow and develop over the last few months!
Happy New Year
Never mind about #9, I got it.
Hi Chinmaya: – Ok. Sorry I did not get to your question sooner, but seems like I was not needed.
-cvj
Thanks for the encouraging and thoughtful remarks, everyone!
-cvj
No problem Clifford. Sometimes I just leave comments too quickly, but you know it is often helpful in clearing things up for me.
The foto is so nice. My grandma used to have such flowers in her winter garden, along with some tiny cacti.
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!
A belated Happy New Year from me too!!
So, it’s time to dig out the 1995 calendars for re-use.