wrapping text around a figure in latex

An example from Devin:

%\begin{wrapfigure}{l}{0.5\textwidth}
% \vspace{-27pt}
% \begin{center}
% \includegraphics[width=0.48\textwidth]{nsf_fig3.ps}
% \end{center}
% \vspace{-27pt}
% \caption{\it{}}
% \vspace{-12pt}
%\end{wrapfigure}
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\usepackage{wrapfig}

my month of travel

I figure most people spending a month away from home would bring more than a small duffel full of clothes. I was quite satisfied with what I had. The things I missed (as a reminder for next time):
My desktop, eta
My music collection
Powerbars

...nothin else, really

Detexify!

for when you can't remember how to draw an angstrom:
detexify

wget

wget is very useful for acquiring data from, e.g., IRSA, the NASA Infrared Science Archive.

wget -nd -r -l1 -A*g09*_b4_20.fits http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/IGA/images/

The important elements:
-nd: don't reproduce the host directory structure
-r: recursive. Grab the files referred to by the page, not just the page itself
-l#: number of recursion levels
-A: "accept" wildcard

New python software

IDLsave was released on my birthday. It does what you'd expect - read IDL save files into Python.
APLpy has a make_RGB_cube function now that takes care of all the internals of making an RGB image.... haven't tried it yet but I need to because it is awesome.

astro-better post

I contributed to a post on Astro Better asking about mosaicing software.

#6 on Astro-ph today

IRAS 05358 on astro-ph. Check out my page on the region too.