A busy week!
Monday is down. This week is pretty intense…lot’s of things going on. A quick rundown: gave a presentation in neuroscience today, went well. Joel landed in Seattle and has started meeting teams at GSEC. I worked for a while on Sunday formatting and improving the aesthetics of the WaterPLUs presentation. We got an honorable mention for the William James Foundation competition. Babak and I met to discuss our power amplifier project and later I spent a while at office hours with the TA. A good number of teams are about where we are, so I think its ok. Spent Sunday night filming some scenes for this Imagine It video. Gonna meet tomorrow morning to film more, then hike up on Wednesday morning to film a scene by the Dish. The Palm meeting with Roger McNamee got bumped to Wednesday.
Looks like we’re getting new handsets for Sprint soon. I’ve decided to try a smart(er)phone, and I’m currently looking at the Samsung Ace, HTC Mogul, or the Palm Centro. Once I find some free time I gotta go over to a Sprint store and check them out.
I was greeted today after class by an undergrad doing a survey. I quickly recognized it was the rubberstamped Campus Crusade for Christ. I entertained him for about 10 minutes actually. Poor guy didn’t quite know what to do when I started going off about the finer points of what science says about the Big Bang theory, embryonic stem cell research and the classic ethical thought experience (you have 10 frozen 32-cell embryos in a fridge downstairs and a 3 month old baby in a crib upstairs; house is on fire and you have time to either get to the fridge or the crib. What do you?), and the degree to which the Bible is inerrant. And he had never heard of Dr. Bart Ehrman before (Chair of Religious Studies at UNC and author of Misquoting Jesus, which I read last year from Peyton), so I told him Ehrman’s biography of an born-again evangelical who attended a religious university and learned all the ancient languages to read the original Word of God, later learning that what we know today as the Bible is certainly not the Word of God, and is now an agnostic. Oh well. At least for him it was probably not the usual exchange he gets.
On a completely unrelated note, I finally found out a way to export my old NCSU e-mail archive (about 10,000 emails) from Thunderbird to text files. After this week or next, I’m going to use this data to do a visualization project using Processing. It’s a good dataset to work with. Not sure how I’m gonna approach it –always open to suggestions.
I’ll post later this week before I take off for Seattle.
mom Said,
February 26, 2008 @ 10:30 am
Way to go, my son!! With all the projects keeping you occupied this week, You certainly used the 10 min. of your time wisely to have a good debate with the surveyor. I am sure you opened up his eyes to the other possibilities which he may not have considered it before.