Pleased to direct your attention again to the right: I just found Kelly Stano’s blog. This is kinda cool. I removed the blogroll from earlier versions of this site, simply because it was empty. But now it’s neat to see starting to fill up. I love it. If you know of other friends who are on the interwebs, please let me know!
Naman forwarded me this nice article about the WaterPLUS venture:
http://www.kenaninstitute.unc.edu/centers/cei/?y=news.20080111&t=News
We’re awaiting to hear feedback on the first draft of the business plan we sent in. We need to really expand on the competitor analysis and financial projection sections.
I’m taking a radio-frequency integrated circuits class with Dr. Thomas Lee this quarter, and so far it looks like I’ll have some fun while learning a lot. Dr. Lee has a lecture style that I’ve not often seen. For example, to provide context for certain radio detection hierarchies:
“The Tuned RF receiver was the first to be invented in at the turn of the century, but they knew it was suboptimal. After the antenna, they used a multiple bandpass filters and gain blocks. Geeks loved this, because each of those components had a knob you could use to tune the blocks. And geeks love knobs. The alpha-nerds could show they are better than the beta-nerds because they could adjust the knobs better. But ordinary people don’t like knobs. They want the radio to telepathically know what they want, and adjust accordingly. Now, as there are more ordinary people than geeks, the Tuned RF receiver faded into the history.”
Yeah, it’s great.
Ok, shameless plug here: help Nourish International win $50,000. There is a Causes application on Facebook with a running contest in which the organization that gets the most # of unique donors will receive an award of $50,000. The deadline is February 1st. Nourish International started at UNC in 2002 with a goal to help poverty through student action. Sounds like the typically lofty ideal goals of naive college students. But then the students started doing stuff. Entirely student inspired, managed, and executed, they pulled off large popular benefit events. They started serving a ‘Hunger Lunch’ at UNC’s brickyard that has been going on for nearly four years. They have executed projects in sustainable agriculture in seven different countries on three different continents, while expanding to 4+ universities. Nourish entered a UNC and Duke business plan competition for a universal nut sheller project and took home 1st place in both. These guys mean business!
I learned about Nourish through my sisters and friends at UNC, who were very active in Nourish. I played ultimate frisbee each week with the current president, Joel Thomas. I worked to found a Nourish chapter at NC State, and I’m currently working with Joel (and Win) on the WaterPLUS project.
It’s simple. Go to their page here on Facebook and donate $10. If they are also a daily leader in unique donors, they get an additional $1,000 award. So check out the leaderboard (on the linked page) and choose wisely when to donate.
Ok, end of shameless plug. Thanks for being patient.
Believe you me, this is just a sign of things to come!
We won in the finals today against a Duke team. Our cross on their defendant was so intense and good that we actually got the defendant to admit that he dumped the body!!! It was one of those legally blond moments. At that point, we had definitely won the case, but that does not matter that much in this competition. What matters the most is trial procedure, trial confidence, answers to objections, objections made, etc…but we did awesome in all of those too.
Today in general was intense because we actually did it in a REAL courtroom with a judge and a 12-man jury…and a full audience! It was nerve racking, but pretty cool.
Win
Incredible. I’d love to be in the courtroom when the witness admitted to dumping the body, especially to see the reactions from those familiar with case. Way to go, man!
Check out the link to Mary and Matt Elting’s food-centric blog on the right. They have the domain meltingonline.com (see what they did there? hah) and their currently active blog is here: http://www.food.meltingonline.com
You can see that both Mary and Matt are very creative and adventurous about food — I’m going to be trying some of their recipes for sure!
Busy but fun week.
In a few minutes Mary and Matt will come by to pick me up and the three of us will go to Pleasanton to watch the UNC-NCSU game. It’s a get together of the Bay Area Wolfpack Club. Let’s go Wolfpack!
You might have inferred from a few of my earlier posts, or the new icon I have on the right side of this website. I am endorsing Barack Obama for President.
In the past, I have tried to keep politics off this blog. It isn’t something most people want to hear, and it does not serve the primary purpose I had in mind when I began this enterprise. However, it is a subject that I am interested in, and enjoy discussing with my friends.
Barack Obama has captured my interest like no politician has before. I found myself this week at the Silicon Valley headquarters of the Barack Obama campaign, signing up for voter phonebanks, and becoming a part of the Stanford get-out-the-vote campaign. I have never done any of these things before.
Obama is a unique politician. No candidate has ever matched all my beliefs or priorities, but when I listen to him speak, consider his record, or think about his upbringing, I am convinced that among this year’s field of candidates, he is the best person for the job. Some candidates run on ‘expertise’ or a quarter-century worth of experience. You don’t make decisions by yourself when you are President. More than anything else, I want a president with good judgment. Judgment to select advisors, to think through policies, to plan a course of action. Obama inspires confidence in me at all these things.
I could give a laundry list of what I think about him or the other candidates. But I won’t do that here. I just wanted to explain some of the recent changes you might have noticed around here.
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