Last month's observations in L111

Mapped sources:
SH 2-156 [no high resolution observations; covered by 1.2m CO 1-0 survey]
SH 2-157 Yancy CS 5-4 , CO, 13CO 1-0, CS 2-1 , HCN & SCUBA too....
IRAS 23151 (two pointings)

Unmapped:
BFS 18 = IRAS 23042+6000 = IRCO 859
Wu et al mapped this in CO 2-1 and detected no outflows. They used the NRAO 12m with a heterodyne array with very high T_sys ~700-1100K.

How do I print a multi-page postscript?

I want to print a multi-page postscript duplexed and, if possible, two per page. pstopng, pstopdf, and the variants failed me horribly by making postscripts that don't fit the bounding box at all. Any ideas?

So far the best I've come up with is switching gnuplot's output to pdf, which is a workaround rather than a solution, but is useful nonetheless:
set terminal pdf enhanced dashed

Mathematica & Series expansions

Mathematica does something stupid and incomprehensible (to me) with their series expansions. For no clear reason, it makes the O[x]ⁿ uneditable, and adds a bunch of formatting things that prevent you from copying & pasting the expression and then solving for a variable. Argh. While this is repairable using the "show expression" tool (Shift-Apple-E), it's a pain and "show expression" is not meant to be human readable.

teaching

this is the only right way to teach

gardening

I realized I don't have a gardening category and I should.

I have eaten 2 garden tomatoes. There have been a total of 3 that ripened. There is a fourth on the vine. There are ~40-50 big green ones being big and green.

I ate basil in my pasta sauce yesterday. I need to buy some pine nuts. But I'm not pining for nuts.

Next year, start growing in March!

sage casjobs

annoying feature of sage casjobs: no spaces are allowed, no matter what, even if quoted. so when importing must remove all spaces. gurrh.

mathematica

//. and /. use 'rules' of the form {x->y} for substitutions

how do you make the layout of a page look nice? How do you change line spacing?