Henry Sztul, Ph.D.
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Posts
Words to live by, especially on a Monday. (Although you may want to wait until after lunch.)
- Freeeeeeedom
Today New York City has a new “tallest building” as the freedom tower is set to overtake the Empire State building.
Another AWESOME photo from the Enterprise fly by yesterday.
(only enhancement to photo was contrast adjustment)
Over the past couple of days at The Next Web’s conference in Amsterdam, we’ve heard from some very cool speakers and met some really awesome startups. The Startup Rally which has been going on over the past couple of days has now reached its conclusion and we are able to reveal the…
I saw this this morning. It was really remarkable. [oh and we (shelby.tv) just won the the next web 2012]
The Future:
I bought this bulb this morning at Home Depot for about $21. If it does indeed last 20 years (as they say it should) the $130 in savings that they say I should see is dead on accurate (give or take a few bucks). Between the cost of replacement bulbs and savings in electricity this is totally worth it.
For what its worth the bulb really goes for around $60 which to cost prohibitive (even in just a psychological sense) but Home Depot is selling them for around $21. I’m not sure what type of subsidy is going on here but I like it.
This bulb is the winner of an X-Prize for lightbulbs (the L-Prize). Philips was the only company to submit a bulb that came close to the specs that the prize mandated. If you are interested in learning more about this bulb, which i recommend you do, read this:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-20087487-54/philips-brings-home-l-prize-with-efficient-led-lamp/
So I got this new attitude. Now that I am burned out and I’ll never accomplish anything, I’ve got this nice position at the university teaching classes which I rather enjoy, and just like I read the Arabian Nights for pleasure, I’m going to play with physics, whenever I want to, without worrying about any importance whatsoever.
Within a week I was in the cafeteria and some guy, fooling around, throws a plate in the air. As the plate went up in the air I saw it wobble, and I noticed the red medallion of Cornell on the plate going around. It was pretty obvious to me that the medallion went around faster than the wobbling.
Richard Feynman, “Surely you’re joking, Mr. Feynman”Step 3, product.
We need to make it easy for people to come back to content they like. This is our biggest challenge, given the byzantine and organic structure of the Internet and services and consumer expectations we have created on top of it. We need to look at ways of solving this as both distributors as well as producers, considering everything from navigation and usability, marketing tactics, technology and platform functionality, and even the form and format of the content. Once the fish bites, we need to set the hook.
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Tweets
- I oxx
- Fixed the data connection on my HTC thunderbolt with miui ROM. Phew!
- +2 @spinosa: Fuck Inbox Zero. It's time for Inbox Good Enough. http://t.co/s4CZbONb
- petzls mmmmmmm. http://t.co/DtSGr1Gi
- Awesome remake of the Beastie Boys Sabotage! http://t.co/tYH2OqgR
- "SEO and Facebook timeline integration is “best practice” on the Internet. You should do both. They can..." http://t.co/2weYbIaB
- Photo: M (Taken with instagram) http://t.co/qB5tPXga
- i <3 Ghostbusters http://t.co/YMfNOTDa
- @dN0t I need more cowbell...
- .@idancohen that really stinks (happened to us too). if you need anything… let us know!
- End of the #shelbyroadtrip (@ Pier I Cafe w/ @reece @laurenwick @ckurdziel @spinosa @vincentiadevaia) [pic]: http://t.co/WYLB3Per
- #shelbyroadtrip (@ Millbrook Mountain) [pic]: http://t.co/SnQWse2m
- Photo: Weird morning (Taken with instagram) http://t.co/DS4ajtEX
- I love @sparrow… but I **hate** how i can't undo an archive!! #pleasefix
- for all of us @shelby in case @mkrecny, aka cyborg, gets out of control! /cc @reece, @spinosa http://t.co/QQWYB3jm
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Info
- SummarySpecialties: Matlab, Ruby-on-Rails, HTML/CSS, Python, Ruby, OS X, Windows, Linux, LaTexExperience
- Jun 2010 - PresentScientist / ShelbyShelby.tv is the best way to discover and enjoy web video.
- Aug 2008 - PresentResearch Associate / The City College of New YorkRecently received PhD in Physics and am working at the Institute of Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers
- Jan 2004 - PresentPrivate Tutoring Business / Thinking Ahead LLCDeveloped a private tutoring business for high school students in the New York City area. At any time I employed up to four tutors. Topics include: Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Biology.
- Jan 2002 - Aug 2008Research Assistant / Institute for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and LasersEmployer: Dist. Prof. R.R. Alfano, NASA Center for Optical Sensing and Imaging Conceived, designed, and implemented a novel on-board, real-time optical ice detection system for airplanes and other vehicles. Patent Pending. Developed data acquisition software to process CCD data in optical imaging experiments. Studying ultrafast lasers, Raman spectroscopy, and properties of beams of light with angular momentum Companies /Organizations worked with include
- Jan 2000 - Jan 2008Technology Consultant / Webmaster / Hotel Grand UnionDesigned, deployed, and maintained a web page for this small New York business that has brought in up to 20% of the hotels daily reservations via an online reservations.
- Jan 2001 - Jan 2006Middle School Math Teacher / Ethical Culture Fieldston SchoolTeacher of Pre-Algebra, Algebra, and Geometry. Head Coach of Cross Country, Winter Track, and Track & Field (2001-2006)
- May 2002 - Sept 2005Director / Adventure Base Camp
- Jan 1999 - Jan 2001Research Assistant / Colgate University Undergrad. ResearchDeveloped an experiment to discover a new manifestation of a geometric Berry phase and published in Physical Review Letters. Designed and built a laser tweezer system to be used by undergraduate students to test fundamental physics.
Education-
2003 - 2008The Graduate Center and City College of New YorkPh.D. Physics in Physics
Activities: Research Fellow of the Graduate Center of The City University of New York. Research completed at the Institute of Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers in the field of ultrafast lasers and spectroscopy. Particular interest in light-matter interaction involving angular momentum transfer. -
1997 - 2001Colgate UniversityPhysics
Activities: Men's Varsity Rowing - Captain 2000-2001
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Interests:physics, new technology, sailing, cycling, running
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Checkins
- Central Park - The RavineNorth Meadow
- Absolute Bagel2788 Broadway
- Dunkin' Donuts2661 Broadway
- Hippo Park90th and Riverside
- Tot Lot 105Riverside Drive
- Cyberdyne Systems110 E 23rd St.
- Central Park - Arthur Ross PinetumCentral Park West at 85th St.
- Starbucks304 Park Ave S
- Home Depot40 W 23rd St.
- Happy Warrior Playground780 Amsterdam Ave
- Cascabel Taqueria2799 Broadway
- Riverside Park NorthRiverside Drive
- CVS/pharmacy2495 Broadway
- CityMD2465 Broadway, Manhattan, NY 10025
- Nussbaum & Wu2897 Broadway
- Pier I CafeW. 70th St
- Tuthilltown Distillery14 Gristmill Ln
- Dos Toros Taqueria137 4th Ave.
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Recent Tracks
- Ghosts N Stuff by deadmau5
- automatic jail by Jacuzzi Boys
- Runaway by Imperial Teen
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- Stay Useless by Cloud Nothings
- Nye Nummer Et by Choir of Young Believers
- Mer by Chelsea wolf
- In the Yard by Bowerbirds
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Repositories
- It's a presentation framework based on the power of CSS3 transforms and transitions in modern browsers and inspired by the idea behind prezi.com.1 watcher / Pushed Jan 02, 12
- A Ruby wrapper for the Twitter REST and Search APIs286 forks / 1691 watchers / Pushed May 18, 12
- A capistrano/rails plugin that makes it easy to deploy/manage/scale to EC279 forks / 661 watchers / Pushed May 18, 12
- Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden.785 forks / 6345 watchers / Pushed May 17, 12
- PDF generator (from HTML) plugin for Ruby on Rails109 forks / 637 watchers / Pushed May 07, 12
- jquery.hotkeys plugin lets you easily add and remove handlers for keyboard events anywhere in your code supporting almost any key combination. It takes one line of code to bind/unbind a hot key combination114 forks / 424 watchers / Pushed Apr 26, 12
- A collection of useful Rails generator scripts.266 forks / 1879 watchers / Pushed Apr 17, 12
- Database based asynchronously priority queue system -- Extracted from Shopify375 forks / 2006 watchers / Pushed Apr 09, 12
- Really simple JSON and XML parsing, ripped from Merb and Rails.59 forks / 334 watchers / Pushed Sep 26, 11
- Adds ActionMailer settings to easily integrate with SendGrid.35 forks / 189 watchers / Pushed Sep 22, 11
- An interface to the ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick image processing libraries.41 forks / 350 watchers / Pushed Jun 04, 11
- 1 fork / 169 watchers / Pushed May 19, 11
- Database backed asynchronous priority queue -- Extracted from Shopify9 forks / 103 watchers / Pushed Sep 09, 10
- A plugin for creating psuedo-scheduled jobs in Ruby on Rails.26 forks / 104 watchers / Pushed Aug 11, 10
- Devise << Facebook Connect. IMPORTANT: Not maintained anymore.22 forks / 158 watchers / Pushed Jun 28, 10
- Running Long Background Tasks In Ruby On Rails Made Dead Simple17 forks / 104 watchers / Pushed Mar 01, 10
- A tiny javascript + Flash library that enables the creation and download of text files without server interaction.11 forks / 183 watchers / Pushed Jan 23, 10
- Rails Plugin for interfacing with Amazon's Flexible Payment Service (FPS)6 forks / 49 watchers / Pushed Jan 24, 09
