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Welcome!

Welcome to the website of Raymond ("Cyanoacry") Jimenez. Look around--maybe you'll find stuff you like.

Odd Ramblings

Semi-regular writings about all the musings I have; mostly personal opinions or observations.

IRC/Wsynet

A small network I run.

Systems

My home network and my computers.

Stuff

Big 'ol miscellaneous section. Lots of neat, interesting jury-rigged solutions to problems.

Origami

All the things I've done relating to paper(folding).

Links

A small list of places I visit, and my friends' sites.

"What's this now?"

A simple page about me and this site.

School

If you attend Poly HS, you might find something here.

OpenHazuki

My pet project of a Pasadena-area research network.

Anyway, enjoy your visit here, and feel free to email me at raymond@naru.wsyntax.com if you've got questions or comments. You can usually find me straggling along on IRC on Rizon and Wsynet as cyanoacry.

Have a nice day!

What's New?

Recovery of the fusor site.

Sunday, 2008.09.21

The fusor site is back up.

A new project.

Saturday, 2008.08.30

I'm building a synchrotron.

Fusor's fusing, life's living, and updates are updating.

Saturday, 2008.06.21

Well. Lots of things have happened; I've now had a girlfriend, done nuclear fusion, and become a tad bit more sociable.

The fusor site at http://fusion.wsyntax.com is currently down, due to a power surge that killed the server it was on. It will hopefully be revived soon.

I've written a book explaining the fusor, titled Amateur Nuclear Fusion (~5MB PDF, download recommended). For a print version and a better-resolution PDF (80MB), see my Lulu.com store.

I plan to get this website out of its dilapidated state and finally put it to real use; I'm planning out a number of experiments and would definitely like to document them in case anybody else wants to replicate them. Look forward to a cyclotron/synchrotron project (similar to the type built by Fred Niell and others, depending on how my budget scrapes together.

A major shift has occured though: now that I'm spending more time with physics experiments, I've got less time to deal with computers. With the rising energy bills, it didn't make sense to keep all of those boxes that I painstakingly assembled (as you can see on the Systems page). So I tossed about 15 of them, and about 8 are left. The main IRC server for Wsynet, now, is ayu.hinatanet.net. #explain lives on.

Other exciting developments include work on the ef ~the first tale~ translation project, an internship in a Caltech research group (for which my project involves kA and 1T pulses on the microsecond timescale), an acceptance into the Caltech YESS program, a completed school-credited independent study in scientific glassblowing, and a newfound obsession with fountain pens (that's my Conklin lever-writer, made c. 1925).

See you soon!

Fusor's almost fusing...

Sunday, 2007.03.08

Well, I have a new fusor website over at http://fusion.wsyntax.com. Hopefully it'll stay better updated than this site, since it's significantly simpler.

Needless to say, school pretty much took away any chance of having spare time to update, since when I update this site it seems like it takes about an hour on average. (I get carried away, etc etc... at least if I update here, it's a good update?)

Anyway, head over to the new site and check out what I've been working on. :)

A new unicycle, and fusor progress.

Sunday, 2006.09.03

I got a new unicycle. It is very nice and shiny.

I also recieved some equipment for the fusor (thermocouple vacuum gauge) and visited several people over this summer. Update soon.

Blog update

Friday, 11.08.2006

Ok, just finished a small tidbit about how a little bit of misplaced knowledge can hurt so much more than total ignorance.

Comments have been disabled since apparently spambots are taking over; also they've figured out how to send email through the thing and have spammed over 100 email addresses in the process.

My name is Raymond Jimenez. You spammed my friends. Prepare to die.

Fusor update and a blog in progress.

Thursday, 03.08.2006

Hi again folks. It's been a while since I've updated; I realize this. Yes, I broke my promise. Sorry about that.

But in any case, there hasn't been a whole lot to write about; life around here has been mostly boring. Mostly preoccupied with helping out Mirror Moon with proofreading and playtesting.

I have a blog entry fermenting in my head about perception, so... hopefully sometime this week, if not today.

Onwards: A fusor update.

A new batch of loot, a mockup, and finally--cooperation from the evil nut.

Monday, 26.06.2006

I managed to purchase a very nice set of diffusion pumps for a ridiculous price, as well as set a sense of scale for myself.

Ah, the turmoil.

Sunday, 25.06.2006

I've been preoccupied this weekend with things other than fusion and unicycling. For once my dormant hobby has actually turned pretty interesting.

There has been a lot of things going on in the visual novel scene.

An actual fusor plan!

Friday, 23.06.2006

Dabbled a little bit in Qcad, and I came up with this.

Fusor Update

Thursday, 22.06.2006

Ok, so I missed a day of updates. Bad me.

I have a plan for the fusor up, and pictures of the cleaned pump parts.

Wrangling with the Vacuum Pump

Tuesday, 20.06.2006

Fighting with grime in a vacuum pump is not fun.

Updates, and a promise

Monday, 19.06.2006

There's a big update on the fusor page. Also, see some new pictures in the unicycle diary.

I've decided to commit to a daily (if possible) update schedule of this website. I can do a fair amount of writing, and I've always wanted to have a website that was actually interesting--right now I think it's rather bland. No content! So, from now on, expect something new here every day, whether it's something ingenious or not. If I fail to keep up with this, I'll 100% stick to a weekly schedule. This updating-once-a-month gimmick of mine is beginning to feel exceedingly disheartening.

Comments system in place

Sunday, 29.05.2006

So I managed to take a script from some site off of Google and retrofit it to my application. The end result: every page here has has a unique comments box on the left side, where you see the deluded quote of me hoping to finish this website. Leave any comment you please; I'll try not to moderate them until it gets way out of hand.

Comments are disabled on the front page because there really isn't anything to see or do here, except to go to other pages. If you'd like it to be here maybe as a shoutbox or something, comment elsewhere about it--I'll see it.

Please comment if you see anything you like, or if you see anything that I need to improve--without feedback, I'm as good as a fish on dry land!

Also, a couple updates on the unicycling and nuclear fusion fronts. I've also got some ideas that I'm itching to write down to be put in the blog, but I need to deal with the material such that nobody would get offended and that nobody knows who I'm talking about (I do take all my inspiration from things that actually happen.)

Useful Potential and the Information Sea (weblog)

Saturday, 28.05.2006

Everybody's a genius, don't you know? It's also critically important that ridiculous 90-cent love novels be written and that George Lucas keep writing bad scripts.

Huh? The reasoning.

Unicycling~

Friday, 19.05.2006

I'm missing a wheel.

Oh, and an update to the unicycle journal too.

Trials of the Suburbs (weblog)

Saturday, 06.05.2006

I have a pretty good life by most standards, but there's some problems with it. I'm getting the most out of it, definitely, but I'm totally missing out on some things that can only be done as a kid.

This is why, and what I'm missing out on.

The Start of Something Neat

Tuesday, 11.04.2006

I just received a science project assignment, and I'm going for it all the way. Nuclear fusion~!

New Front Page Layout

Thursday, 02.04.2006

The front page's gotten a new layout so that it's more usable. Send me comments!