The Enigma That I Am

Australia Trip

2009-10-09T23:55:21Z

Who do I know in or near Australia who wants to travel / have a visitor at the end of the month?

I've been potentially given the opportunity to go join http://www.umsolar.com/ for the World Solar Challenge -- as part of the video crew. I need to figure out what I'm going to do before and after the race. And how do I get there?

I'm thinking of hitting up Youth Hostels and the like most of the time, but it's always more fun to do with a group. Who want's to go??

What should I do?

Advice? Suggestions? Free plane tickets?

It's been a long time...

2009-08-25T06:18:18Z

Wow, nearly a full year. Instead of apologizing I think I'll just try to kick this back into gear over the next few weeks.

Sobriety over time

2008-10-25T07:21:27Z

If I ever had trouble with any organ, it wouldn't be my new best friend, my liver.

First iPhone post!

2008-10-09T05:12:30Z

Just trying out my first post via iPhone. This one is plain text.

Untold

2008-03-24T05:15:31Z

Untold

I saw the stars tonight.
Untold stars uncounted,
photos untaken,
hopes unfulfilled,
thoughts unsaid,
questions unanswered.
A key-gift ungiven.
Will the weird sisters
grant a chance
to respin the
threads of fate?

Panasonic World Solar Challenge

2007-10-22T09:40:49Z

The Panasonic World Solar Challenge started this past Saturday (EST-PST). Having placed 11th out of the 38 teams split among two classes of vehicles, in the speed track qualifiers, the University of Michigan Solar Car team was set to start at 8:10am. Just an hour into the race, the Stanford team passed U of M and then abrubtly stopped. This led to our lead vehicle being forced to halt suddenly, which caused our Solar Car: Continuum to crash into the back of the lead vehicle. Noone was harmed in the incident, and it's a testament to the quality of the design created and built by this student team. The front of the vehicle buckled in well defined ways, destroying the cells on the front upper surface and cracking our sheilding over our contentrator array. Also damaged were the wheel fairings: the shaped wheel wells that help produce the great aerodynamic advantage of the car. During the rest of the day the team worked to replace and repair all components that were damaged and then to run the vehicle through speed dynamic tests to verify that the vehicle was safe to drive. Having demonstrated this fact, the car was certified and left on the road again in the morning of Monday Australian time (Sunday EST-PST) The car progressed through the Katherine checkpoint making great time around noon. And moved on for the rest of the day, camping like most teams in the Outback where they stop when the race officials call time at the end of the day.

UMSolar Main Site: [http://www.umsolar.com]

UMSolar Race Blog: [http://www.umsolar.com/blog/]

Panasonic World Solar Challenge Official Site: [http://wsc.org.au/]

WSC Live Race Coverage: [http://wsc.org.au/Live.EVENT/]

Continuum SolarCar Facebook Profile: [http://umichigan.facebook.com/profile.php?id=690210343] -- (unofficial)

Note: the WSC official site fell under the onslaught of too many excited followers and is currently still trying to recover.

fbartho @ 2007-09-25T00:21:00

2007-09-25T08:07:45Z

So it's been a tough few weeks. Surprisingly by trying to take things off my plate and start to build a social life I managed to fall into a busier time for work with less energy leftover. Hopefully starting this week the energy level will go up while the work level goes down.

Speaking of which. Anybody in Silicon Valley want to hang out? I've got a wii with extra controllers :D and I like sharing!

The wii rocks btw, the graphics aren't as stellar as the other 2 new consoles. In 2 days of having it, I managed to beat 90% of the Super Mario World (from SNES) through virtual console! I've had it for 2 weeks as of today. For just that feature buying the wii is worth it, my old SNES is dying (memory chips in the game cartridges are apparently both battery backed and highly aged, so dropping the cartridges even 2 feet onto carpet stands a chance of randomly erasing 1 of the savegames) and my sister illegally claimed it for a year. Now, with virtual console, I can play all of the old games I grew up on, and more because it was much cheaper. Then you have everything else that comes with the wii and it's just amazing. Another game I've been playing is Prince of Persia: Two Towers. I already beat it on the pc back when it came out, and the graphics on the wii aren't as good as they were on my computer, however on the upside is the graphics on the wii are extremely consistent. There is never any jitter, and never any stuttering. And with the wiimote and the nunchuck, the gaming is really intuitive. When I first started playing the game the controls seemed really annoying, but they grew on me rapidly as I got the hang of swinging my arms in the air vigorously, the game started to flow together. I guess before then I was a lazy gamer, being good via highspeed low energy accurate button presses. Now it's a couple buttons and a bunch of appropriate armswings. Healthier I guess :P [I also have Metroid Prime 3, but because I didn't grow up with the story, it's still growing on me, though I like the game mechanics] I plan to get the rest of the mario collection to round out my piece of history of gaming fun on one system :D

In addition to all that the world solar challenge is creeping up Just under 27 days before the race. Tension is creeping up and it's killing me I can't be there. Go Fast. Go Blue. We're rooting for you guys.

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2007-09-11T20:24:27Z

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Thanks for my bday wishes!

2007-09-03T18:44:46Z

Thanks for everyone who wished me a happy birthday. It was the most relaxed I'd been in a long while.

Saw this great nerd test on adamjaskie's page. I think I win.

Oh yeah, and I bought a wii, and games to go with it. :P can't wait till it gets here! (Turns out when I priced out the walmart bundle, assuming you want the games and accessories, that it is an acceptable deal, they gip you on shipping costs though. I probably paid 30$ more than I needed for that.)

New things to get people on linux

2007-08-27T05:12:16Z

http://wubi-installer.org

This is a really sweet installer that takes ubuntu and a bunch of other projects and installs it like an application to windows. It then uses the windows boot loader so that whenever you reboot your computer it will ask you whether you want to boot into linux or windows.

This is a great way to get people to start using linux. It doesn't require them to leave their comfort zone much, because it installs like an application. It doesn't even need the user to burn a cd and boot into it. In that respect this is better than suggesting people get a livecd.

Downsides to this are that linux being run from a single file on the filesystem, a fixed size virtual disk, this is also a little bit slower than linux would be running natively.

Movie Trivia

2007-08-22T07:07:16Z

So there's this great movie called WarGames with Matthew Broderick which I saw the other day. It's an older movie, but in spite of that they did a surprisingly better job of sticking to the possibilities of computer hardware and software than the most recent die hard was able to manage. Possibly my favorite part in that movie (movie) though comes from when in one of the scenes about 1/3rd in, Matthew's character is talking to I think his family downstairs in his house. The tv is playing in the living room and Matthew is in the front entrance next to the stairs and it seems the other person is in the kitchen, basically behind the camera. From the next room there is obviously a news telecast going on and there is this great line that gets cutoff by Matthew Broderick: "and in other news, a used prophylactic recycling facility was just [opened]" and it gets cutoff! My jaw dropped when I heard that, the guys making the background noises must have been having a good time. That little bit of trivia has yet to make it onto IMDB so I feel like I've discovered a secret gem that was hidden in plain sight.

fbartho @ 2007-08-13T00:55:00

2007-08-13T07:58:56Z

I'm a fan of ebooks and philosophy and I found one of both! Look up God's Debris, download here. It's an interesting set of mind exercise, though I disagree with some of the conclusions that are drawn as extensions to lines of thought presented as new in the story. Free ebooks rock! And this one is one of those I may end up buying just to have for myself. Link me to more!

fbartho @ 2007-08-13T00:06:00

2007-08-13T07:54:51Z

Last weekend Deanna came to visit, it was a great time, we explored san francisco, the area around here, had some great sushi, some great thai food, and smores and some seriously intense sunbeams at the beach. So many in fact that I had the worst sunburn of my life, so bad I couldn't do anything after work all week long with mounting pain that increased through thursday. Permanent continuous pain on the left half of my face that was really hard to shutout. I was starting to get freaked out by the pain and what it looked like. Suffice it to say my face looked and felt pretty disgusting until it sortof fell off. Gross. Other than that it was great to see her and quite hard to see her leave. :'(

Continuum Unveiling Video

2007-07-31T09:19:32Z

Little Video of the unveiling of the University of Michigan Solar Car Team's newest, 9th, car Continuum, made by Spencer Bailey's sister.

del.icio.us, importing trillian chatlogs to gmail? db backed filesystems

2007-07-31T09:16:18Z

So today I finally got tired of my old bookmarks list, I think it was triggered by the fact that I'd felt like I coludn't really add things to it in the past year. There were also folders of cruft and deadlinks. It was frustrating all around. In addition to this I've been spoiled by gmail's tagging system for e-mails and googledocs tagging system for files, and gmail's indexing of my gchats. Livejournal too has the tagging, and to a limited extent I've been using that as well, however I have a tendency to talk about a bunch of things and putting tags for everything doesn't always make sense. In any case, all of those systems make for rapid random access to the data stored. Further, for at least the past year I've pseudo used livejournal for the same purpose as del.icio.us, storing bookmarks and reading what others post about their bookmarks and urls etc. I jumped to del.icio.us (one of the first and debatably the most successful domainhacks ever) today, and cleaned out all my bookmarks and tagged all the ones that were still working that I wanted to keep. Surprisingly enough this was pretty gratifying and I know in the future my bookmarks will all be found at: http://del.icio.us/fbartho It's a shame that yahoo bought this service, because I would totally vote for it to actually be bought by google and have it integrated with the rest of the tagged objects available through google.

This also threw me off on to two tangents:
Firstly, if I can get my gchat logs in gmail if I use their webinterface to chat, is there some practical way for me to import all my chatlogs... ever into gmail? I have 26 megs of pure plain text logs just from aim conversations since 2000-2001 through today. Minus sporadic empty blocks of a couple months, those logs plus the logs from my other messenger services account for a significant portion of my life's cultural online presence, though the conversations may be meaningless or may be embarrassing, I don't want to lose these logs, if I could import them into gmail I'd have them with me along with e-mail logs for a similar period of time (not quite as extensive though) My other option is to write a custom online chatlog database, however that would require a good deal of writing of text processing scripts, of backend management, and of searching in addition to the ui. All of this I'm not too too keen on, but if I have no other choice than I'll be considering it more seriously.

Secondly why hasn't anyone made a userfriendly and a programmer friendly db backed filesystem? It seems to me like doing something like that would allow for loads of functionality. All the metadata would be stored in ram, allowing for large amounts of highspeed searching. It would allow for the tagged filesystem discussed better by others, and poorly by myself before. Finally, this would allow a filesystem to be local or nonlocal. Depending on the amount of RAM a system has, it could make the filesystem blazingly fast. Thin clients could be more useful to people.

iPhone!

2007-07-27T07:34:12Z

I got my iPhone! My phone is (408)666-2954 I pounced when I saw the 666 prefix was available... it's too bad they only let me choose from 5 options for the last 4 digits. Frustratingly, I actually picked up the phone wednesday at work, but itunes took a couple hours attempting to activate till it told me I had to go into a store to get a credit check. So I did that... and they told me I'd need 500$ in cash for a deposit... obviously had I known I would have drawn the cash out before coming to the store in the first place. They only told me this after fiddling on their computer for 20 minutes, so by this time of course they were technically closed... So I had to come back to the store today... did I mention they don't open till 10:30am so I couldn't go before work? Also when I stopped by the atm to get the cash, I forgot that I had given out a rent check, and only had enough funds in my checking to cover that... so I of course received a fee and e-mail at the end of the day that indicated my overdraft protection had kicked in... Thankfully the fee was only 10$ but it's still annoying. Finally after standing at the att store for 30 mins because the people in the morning didn't know what they were doing as well as the guy at the end of the day the day before, I'm told I'm set. So I go back to work and plug my iphone in, and run through a few menus and I'm set! Yay!!!

After fiddling with it for a couple hours now, I'd have to say it's great. I've gotten mail.app to crash a couple times, along with a couple short lockups I'd bet were related to other things crashing, but the iPhone usually silently recovers from those, and just kicks you back to the home screen as if you had hit the home button. So that's cool. The sound quality is great, and the camera surprisingly good, though with no tactile feedback it's hard to tell if your finger is hitting the trigger when you try to take self photos. To help manage my contact lists on all my systems, I've started using http://www.plaxo.com Free, it helps synch contacts and calendar events across windows mac and I think linux as well, made importing my contacts to the iphone really easy, since I instantly had a merge of my work contacts and my personal contacts. Anyways, I never spent much time browsing youtube, but if you must, the iphone is the place to do it. All the videos are sized just about right to look best on the iphone sized screen anyways, so I've always found the website to be more painful. Also, the iphone has no ads, for youtube which is a plus, and the whole experience is streamlined so you can skip from video to video faster than you can on a desktop computer... it's impressive. Also cool is the googlemaps tool, you can highlight addresses in e-mails or on the web, and instantly jump to the embedded viewer application. Similarly anything that looks like a phone number is hyperlinked like a phone number, so if you were to browse facebook, you'd be able to directly click on people's numbers in their profile and have your phone call them. Annoying things: no copy paste, no select all delete on mail. Setting up gmail was frustrating. If you try to delete mail from your inbox so you only see current info, you'll be stuck because gmail will reach back and keep feeding you every single message from your account all labeled as unread until you resign to using their recommended (default) recent mode and just view the messages instead of deleting them. Actually when I wasn't in recent mode, I tried to clean up my e-mails, and I could have sworn that it was feeding me mail I had already deleted (the dates kept jumping back to the 23rd of june when I hit the beginning of june (deleting backwards through time ) )... I think I might have blown its cache of recently deleted e-mail id's. Now however I have it set in recent mode, and I just stepped through to mark all visible mails as read, and it's happy. (No select all mark as read either!) Safari works great too, though there is a maximum zoomlevel that I didn't expect to run into. Final thing to get used to is its photo library handling... Very low configurability, you can't set the order of pictures or anything. It's a bit annoying, but I guess I'll have to get used to it.

The iphone needs to get some more chat applications. One was limited to 10 min sessions. The other I haven't used yet, but didn't look too promising. Why doesn't meebo have one?
Somebody did a mini googledocs called gOffice which looked pretty cool and interesting. The OneStop list looks like it will be useful, I wonder if we can set it up to make the list on the computer, and view it on the iphone. Yay electrostatic touchscreens behind glass, with bright displays! Yay a phone that doesn't suck! Yay a new ipod!

fbartho @ 2007-07-26T20:16:00

2007-07-27T07:10:21Z

So... one thing I learned is that when reading fan fiction what you're doing is expanding the universe of the original books you're reading. Minor inconsistencies you can handle, but as you expand the story, if the fan fiction starts to go counter to the cannon, OR if it goes counter to any other fan fiction you've read before this one then you get disturbingly kicked up to the real world. I've now read 2 pretty darn good fanfictions, one expanding the storyline in a great way, as if the 7th book didn't exist, but without forcing me to change my beliefs about most of the characters. This storyline involved Harry Potter and Ginny getting together, along with much more power in the hands of the student body. One of my favorite things it did was try to discuss and explore the limits of Harry Potter's magic as opposed to the rest of the wizarding world. The next story I read took place after the students left hogwarts, but as if everything was resolved entirely differently from book 7. That was tough, it pushed at Harry Potter's moodiness, and it very strongly pushed at the feelings of betrayal by Dumbledore, that was the hardest part. In fact it tried to give the impression that hogwarts had been corrupted, and most of the school's alumni actually rooted against the school itself because of how it had fallen. The rest of that story though involved Harry Potter and Gabrielle Delacour (Fleur's younger sister, saved from the merpeople by HP during the TriWizard cup) That was less hard to accept in spite of book 7 and the first fanfic's belief in Ginny because the fanfic did a good job of explaining her away. This second fanfic did a great job again of exploring the boundaries of HP's magic, even though it did it in a different way [mutually exclusive no less], and I liked it for it's detail. Things got really hard at the 3rd fanfic I read, this 1 was a short story that managed to with great style and elaboration, vilify most of the male weasleys, that was a pretty hard fanfic, because it mostly was unrelated to the realm described previously, only the characters were present, and shown to be no more noble than us *real* humans. I glanced at a couple other fanfics and realized that they all tried to take the story in directions totally contradictory from my previous readings, while damaging specific characters of the good guys. I gave up, because I felt it would be too hard, and because most of the other fanfics I found were of significantly smaller wordcounts, and I felt it would be hard to get the same value out of things.

It's a shame that the first 2 fanfics outside of HP cannon that I read did a better job of both explaining more mechanics of the magic, and a better job of elaborating on the end of life of the characters than J K Rowling did. I think the acclaim she received for book 6 was too much, because book 6's improvement over book 5 was much greater than book 7 over book 6... And 7 was supposed to be her capstone to the series... why couldn't she have finished with a solid epilogue?

Backyard Pools and Recombinant bikes

2007-07-23T08:39:53Z

I can't recommend enough the benefits of having a backyard pool. Mine is awesome, it is however a hair too short, so I kick off one wall and end up at the other end effortlessly. It's almost wide enough to swim in a circle, but not quite, so I'm going to have to figure out whether there is some way for me to use my pool to excercise. I don't think that's gonna work out, so I'm going to be reinstating my bike to see if I can convince my lazy ass to start using that to get to work in a more healthy manner.

Does anyone have any suggestions on the best recombinant bike style to get? I've been thinking about getting one of those laydown bikes. They're comfortable, I know because I used to rent them at the beach on the boardwalk on the North Sea in Belgium. So of my most fun childhood memories with my cousins involve the pack of us getting different kinds of alternative bike styles, and running rampage down the boardwalk and going out into bike parks further inland. As the older of us got a bit taller, we were to big for some of the more eccentric bikes (they were gocart style frames) and so we moved on to the laydown bikes. You primarily lean from side to side to steer. I'd be interested in getting one of those for the work/home route, and then just to go shopping. I wonder if they all have backpack hooks or attached bags on them. There are nice wide bikepaths up the mile or two to the grocery stores near me.

Today and yesterday I spent my day programming for umsolar's optimizer. Cleaning up details always takes longer than you'd expect. Tomorrow I'll be doing more of the same, but for work.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

2007-07-21T12:08:36Z

Long time no post, I'm going through a reassessment of my life, and tomorrow I'll be regularly posting again.

This week, I managed to get a copy of Harry Potter 7 over the internets[sic], and though I'll be buying the box set for the whole series in the near future just to have it around, I couldn't stop myself from reading it early (before release time!) I figure nobody really wants to get spoilers, but it wasn't quite as climactic as I was expecting, and the epilogue was on the weak side, feeling tacked on at the end to try to provide some closure to the HP world. J. K. Rowlings has said that this is the end, but it's frustrating that so few pages were all she put in to make us feel like we were happy with everyone's future. That said it was thoroughly entertaining throughout, it was just the short epilogue which disappoints given how much we'd read in all the books before, there could have been a bit more detail involved in sending them off.

The Harry Potter fanfic "This Means War", available via google searching or at: this place.
Adult content aside, I feel like this fanfic did a great job of balancing its story line with a satisfying ending. It is however told in an interesting style that takes a bit of getting used to... after awhile the you no longer see pseudo e-mail thread style, just a blonde, a brunette, a redhead...

Edit: Changed the link it pointed to a site that has the full chapter breakdown, along with the extra epilogues.
Re-Edit: Turns out "nekkid quidditch" is actually a different fanfic, fun, but much shorter, not the one I was referring to above. Found here Scroll down to the bottom or hack the url for each successive chapter.

lj_bot feature request: gmail based gchat posts!

2007-07-11T02:25:07Z

Initially posted to: lj_clients

I don't quite know how the lj_bot is implemented and how neccessary it is to run on it's own server, however, it would seem to me that if we could provide a setting in our lj profiles for a gchat id, then if the lj_bot were to connect to gchat, it could verify that setting, and authenticate a gmail user as the equivalent lj_user and implement all the same functionality it already has. I'd love to be able to make posts from my gmail account on the run.

It looks like you can add Frank to your gmail buddylist, you just: [16:06:41] LJ Bot (Frank) (bot): Can't post from non-LiveJournal Jabber addresses yet.

Is there any update on the schedule for this feature?

I personally haven't delved into LJ's codebase very much, but if someone could let me know whether that feature is assigned to someone who is actively working on it, or where specifically I would look in the codebase to make the changes [what's the repository path], I could take a look. To me it seems pretty simple:
- Examine incoming e-mail address and host,
- Search for a user via the field matching the domain for the client
- If there is a match, give @gmail account ability to act just like @livejournal profile that was found.
- And finally return to existing code for the rest of the processing.

Issues that would have to be resolved: what happens if a user wants to be able to post to multiple accounts from the same gmail address?, and how do you verify that e-mail address really belongs to the user at the time they put it in? Those issues can be resolved at the time they enter the e-mail address into their profile via a challenge response situation, and by adding to the lj_bot syntax, maybe with a simple change to the regex I assume is already in use. post: @journal_name@ [subject] postbody... Requiring @journal_name@ for every foreign jabber post would simplify the search, because the server just needs to look up that specific journal and check its settings... since you can't currently use jabber to post to communities, it's not even a problem for those! If you want to enable community support you can just fallback to the other behavior I described, it would be slower, but workable nonetheless.

I made it.

2007-06-10T08:44:58Z

So It's been 1 week. I made it to California, I drove 3300 miles with my Dad across this surprisingly vast expanse that is this beautiful country. We passed through Mount Rushmore, saw Bighorn do some impressive sitting on crazy mountain peaks. Moved on to Cody Wyoming, just outside Yellowstone for a night. Then we entered Yellowstone. Just inside the gates we saw 2 grizzly cubs that were probably about 90lbs each, they were on the mountainside next to the road. Then we found our campsite, it was on the edge of a lake in this park that is about 1/3 the size of Belgium. We spent 3 nights exploring the park, climbing to peaks going through canyons, hopping ridges and finding forgotten lakes with herds of Bison, Deer, and Antelope that sometimes act skittish, and other times will allow themselves to wearily approach you as they make their way by. We saw beautiful sunrises and sunsets, and walked up this mountainside trail, you know, one of those paths barely two feet wide curving in and out along the edge of a mountain, where trees can't remotely grow, where you can only go forwards or backwards for a mile or more with hundreds of feet seperating you and anything lower down, where the wind blows almost so loud you can't hear anything else. Saw Old Faithful and at least a hundred zones of geysers, mudpots, fumaroles, and burning ground. Saw at Mammoth Hotsprings a beautiful section where the Springs in one area, all starting spouting into the same pond, and that forced the cascades to move over away from the main face where the water runoff had used to flow. The hotsprings water is highly acidic, and is full of dissolved limestone, this limestone gets deposited as a new type of stone called Travertine, this has the effect of snagging a whole bunch of trees grass moss and stone, and embedding them into the rockface, stuck solid. Due to differing temperatures of the water, you get different microcultures of bacteria, these colonies have different colors ranging from white (minimal to no microorganinsms) to yellows greens greys and blues. The steam came up from zones visible all over the park, as we walked over rigelines, next to lakes and rivers, coming up from rockslides. After getting snowed on a couple times in our campground, we left and headed through the mostly barren landscape of Nevada. The rolling highway reminded me at times of scenes from Cars (pixar). We halted in this town called "Winnemucca" one of the 3 towns on the map for nevada, and it was just motels advertising free cable and giving out casino coupons, closed businesses, and the 3 casinos. After that we headed out and wandered through little towns of the US, wholesome backcountry folk; some pretty impressive mountain roads, until we found our way into Yosemite National Park. If you don't know, Yosemite is a Valley that that was carved out of the Granite Rock by the initial act of water, and then later Glaciers in the last iceages. This leads to some spectacular meadows, and ponds, and hundred of foot cascades. The Sequoia are pretty awesome trees. They actually survive hundreds of fires during their normal lifecycle, and these fires hive them space to grow, because inbetween fires the undergrowth clogs things up. This is a bit different from the lodgepole forests of Yellowstone also need fires in their lifecycles, but for them it's a neccessary part of their being seeds being released from the pinecones. In 1988 the mistaken work of the ranger system preventing fires lead to an overcrowding of dead and dying undergrowth that lead to a massive forest fire that burned much of the park, however the damage wasn't permanent, and whereever the fire burned, now there are clusters of new seedling lodgepole pines. Anyways we finally made it in to California, and the next day we drove around exploring and I took my dad up to the airport.

I started work monday, and my boss got me a quadcore mac pro with 4 gigs of ram and 800 gigs of harddrive initially. With that came a 30 inch Cinema display, a 23 inch one a 20 inch one, a 20 inch Imac, and a Macbookpro, which is a pretty damn sweet laptop. It has a isight camera, so if anyone wants, I can do video chat!

My housemates are pretty cool, 2 google girls and 1 apple girl and 1 apple guy. Only the guy is an engineer, the girls all work in other professions... which cool, but I guess it means things won't be as geeky as I expected they'd be. Ah well, it's probably a good thing.

Next week is WWDC (just google it if you don't know) and I'm gonna see what I can do to steal someone's pass to visit it. Unfortunately it may not work out, we'll see.

Missya

Move, trek

2007-05-26T04:35:02Z

So, I left a2 at 5am, and traveled 1100 miles to Rapid City, so that tomorrow, i'll basically catch dawn at mount rushmore and the big dudes. 9 hours later we'll be outside yellowstone, to wait for the morning to rush in and stake some campland for the next 3 nights.

I miss you already... its been a good drive thus far, and i am reading jobs' unofficial biography, Silicon Valley is gonna rock.

Angry.

2007-05-19T04:49:30Z

Damn it. I haven't felt this pissed in a long time. I wish I had a punching bag. Damn you world.

Graduation.

2007-05-07T03:33:24Z

Well, I graduated!

It's been a really crazy year, but even more, it's been a crazy 4 years. I have made memories I'll never forget and friends I'll certainly never part with. This past semester has been filled with solar car, web development and squeezing in graduation somewhere in there, I never felt so happy about a poor grade than when I found out I had a C+ in my last remaining requirement, because it meant that I had graduated! [I needed a C]

Congratulations to all those who are done, especially to those on the Solar Car team, [and Formula]. We all worked hard, and are now free. Only thing left is the end stretch of the next 138 days.

Congratulations: Deanna, Georgina, Gabriella. I know how hard you worked, and you deserve the success coming to you.

Good day.

2007-04-02T03:06:58Z

Lunch at home with Deanna, Brian, Georgina, and Tom. Relaxing a bit, then solar car till right before the Michigan Pops concert, then dinner with a bunch of awesome solar car peeps and Stucchi's. Awesome, happy, healthy, and productive... Kindof crazy like that.