Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Shining eyes in the desert

I took this photo on my way to San Jose. In it you see a pair of shining eyes deep in the (Mojave?) desert. Any idea what they are? (see the answer below)

 
If I'm not mistaken, they are reflections of the Sun by a solar thermal power plant. And here is a different view of this plant.




Thursday, February 26, 2015

Stuck with A4 size in revtex and how I solved it

I was setting up Miktex 2.9 on my new laptop, and revtex just couldn't output any other paper size than A4 when the setting was clearly changed. I then decided to see whether the documentclass[...]{revtex4} had something to do with it, and I was happy to find that by changing it to {revtex4-1} solved the problem.