Adam Ginsburg's blog

• mercurial merge

  AG My most hated behavior of mercurial:

  searching for changesadding changesetsadding manifestsadding file changesadded 1 changesets with 3 changes to 3 files (+1 heads)(run 'hg heads' to see heads, 'hg merge' to merge)remote: 1 changesets foundrunning hook post-pull: hg upabort: crosses branches (merge branches or use --clean to discard changes)warning: post-pull hook exited with status 255$ hg mergeabort: outstanding uncommitted changes (use 'hg status' to list changes)$ hg commitnothing changed
  

  Solution: `` hg merge --force `` Hopefully there are other solutions that I'll eventually add to this.

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• Merging postscripts

  This is essential and really difficult to find answers to, but this guy gave it: http://ludo.qix.it/archive/2005/08/merge-postscript-files.html The keywords I would have liked to see: "merge postscripts into multi-page document" or "combine postscript multiple page" e.g. gs -sDEVICE=pswrite -sOutputFile=output.ps -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH file1.ps file2.ps file3.psorgs -sDEVICE=pswrite -sOutputFile=05358spectra.ps -dNOPAUSE -dEPSFitPage -dBATCH `ls 05358_*.eps`(the added option is to make sure the .eps isn't cropped)

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• meta

  Why a blog? I've been strongly opposed to blogs for the longest time (after all, Desert Strike coined the word BLOG as an acronym for building), so why use one now? 1. link power - more links to my own pages if done correctly 2. google owns the blogger 2.a. google made it really easy 3. it's easier to add content here than to my real 'web page' which is already too content-heavy. Still, my web page is more useful for displaying code, my cv, etc. 4. needed a place to post beer reviews / brewing related content that doesn't fit on a normal web page unless I made a blog there 5. easiest way to take notes that I can't just accidentally delete... and now that I've made this post, 6. because I like metahumour

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• Molecular Clouds

  I'm starting a blog on Molecular Clouds partly for the International Year of Astronomy. Ideally, I'd like to present a tour of the W3/4/5 region, but at the moment that's more of a research blog than a public blog. This is partly in response to Pamela Gay's request for astronomy blog feeds. I've generally spent more time maintaining my personal web page than my blog pages. The most interesting are: W5 P Cygni Some pictures but feel free to browse around.

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• Montage wrapper

  (I'm going to try to gradually shift my blogging to this one...) I wrote a bash wrapper for Tom Robitaille's montage wrapper to allow fits wildcards. #!/bin/bashorigdir=`pwd`#echo $# $*if [ $# -gt 0 ]then    for ii in $*    do        if [ ${ii%=*} == 'header' ]        then            /usr/local/bin/montage/mGetHdr ${ii#*=} mosaic.hdr        elif [ ${ii%=*} == 'outfile' ]        then            outfile=${ii#*=}        elif [ `echo $ii | grep =` ]         then            params="$params,${ii%=*}='${ii#*=}'"        elif [ `echo $ii | grep ".fits"` ]         then            files=( ${files[@]} $ii )        fi    donefiecho ${files[@]} ${#files} if [ ${#files} -gt 0 ] then    mkdir tmp    cp ${files[@]} tmp/    cp mosaic.hdr tmp/    cd tmp/fiif [ -f mosaic.hdr ] then     echo "mosaic.hdr exists, continuing"    dir=`pwd`    echo python -c "import montage; montage.wrappers.mosaic('$dir','$dir/mosaic',header='$dir/mosaic.hdr'$params)"    python -c "import montage; montage.wrappers.mosaic('$dir','$dir/mosaic',header='$dir/mosaic.hdr'$params)"    cd $origdir    if [ -d tmp ]    then        if [ $outfile ]        then            mv tmp/mosaic/mosaic.fits $outfile        else            mv tmp/mosaic mosaic        fi        rm -r tmp    fielse    echo "mosaic.hdr does not exist.  Quitting."    cd $origdirfi

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• More beer tastes

  Stone Vertical Epic 8: described as an overhopped Belgian, and I think they hit the mark exactly. It was pleasant and drinkable, with a strong hop flavor but weak hop bitterness. 8.6% ABV Fort Collins brewery double chocolate stout: a reasonable dessert beer. Not nearly as dry as Stone's Oatmeal Chocolate, but not as sweet as Young's double chocolate. Chocolate undertones stayed undertones, which is not what I expect from a double chocolate stout. 8.1% ABV Avery / Liquor Mart 40th anniversary: Just a hoppy ale, nothing special. Had a stronger hop aftertaste than most, not up to Avery's standard. No ABV label. Steamworks Kolsch: Very light kolsch. I think it may have had a crisp flavor to it, but it was the last in line and unremarkable enough that my comments on it are untrustworthy. 4.86% ABV. Also, talked to Bobby again, he recommends St Bernard as a good Belgian. That's on the list.

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• More tastings

  Deschutes Black Butte XX - good for a porter, reasonably drinkable, but still a porter Rogue Chocolate Stout - a bit bitterer than I want in a chocolate stout Victory 12 - pretty good, tasted a bit like a trippel Sketch Wheat - much more drinkable than last time; "weirdness" gone

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• MOSAIC data reduction

  MOSAIC reduction is very difficult. http://www.noao.edu/noao/noaodeep/ReductionOpt/frames.html has the official instructions. Important things: Have the latest version of MSCRED and MSCDB installed. Both will give cryptic errors or "cannot open file" errors (because the files don't exist) otherwise. mscredsetinstrument kpno CCDMosaThin1msccmatch obj09*.fits coords="!mscgetcat $I $C" search=60 rsearch=1 nfit=30 accept=yes interactive=no fit=no

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• Most important astronomical publications

  I'm interested to hear input on this. Some I know of: Cardelli, Clayton, Mathis 1989 - determined interstellar extinction law Kurucz 1993 - possibly a book? Stellar atmosphere calculations

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• Mountain Sun

  Went to the Mountain Sun, had the Thunderhead Stout and Stone's Levitation IPA. The Thunderhead Stout is one of my favorites. It's rich, slightly sweet, full bodied. I can't identify any particular flavors, but it's delicious. Stone's Levitation IPA is dark brown for an IPA. It's hoppy and pretty tasty, but nowhere near as good as the Dogfish Head IPAs.

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