Buddy's Blog

Just to let you know, last night the Fighting Seacows won 52-8

And I got stood up. Frau G is going to the high school football game with a girlfriend who is a big fan. I went to Manatee High which has had some outstanding teams over the years. Not like when I was there. The Fighting Seacows!

Ever feel that way?

I was away Thursday thru Sunday. My major Professor, Dr. James Gust Skofronick, had passed away at age 93, and I went up to Tallahassee to pay my respects. In addition to being brilliant, he was a wonderful human being. I couldn’t tell you all the good things he did for me and his other students. I was his third PhD student. My friend and lab mate, Dr. Kevin McArdle, was his second. Kevin was there as well. Dr. Skofronick’s first PhD recipient passed on two years ago. What I did with him was to experimentally demonstrate the existence of the Ramsauer-Townsend effect for low energy He-He and He-H2 collisions. It was seminal work. It has no practical application whatsoever. But that’s what most of advanced physics is.

This week of stand alones is from October of 2000.

Published 12-21-91.

Robert R asked about colors that I use. I constantly create my own colors, but there are many that I use over and over. Here is that pallet. Sort of.

(That second Pool Table stripe is wrong. Don’t know how it came about.)

When published on the web, the colors sometimes don’t look so good. There are a finite number of colors that the internet can handle. Here is today’s strip in the original non-web colors:

This is the Pantone pallet that I use.