school
Finals Tips
Tips on a successful final’s week:
Study many days early and don’t think much of it. Then rest a lot and think about while relaxing a bit. For a hilarious take on this strategy, see this episode of “the show”.
Get plenty of sleep the night before.
Take the whole test time to write a crapload of explanation [...]
Music and Snow
Yay! I’m a NNW dinosaur!
So I guess I’ve been pretty busy lately, but I got to see The Decemberists in Dallas, Texas a little more than a month ago. Man, they were amazing. Their new album, The Crane Wife is a must listen to. If you are in any of these cities, do yourself a [...]
WWDC Poster
In case anyone is interested, I did a poster for the WWDC scientific poster session on the Mac based rover I worked on. Maybe we’ll get written up on the Apple webpage, or get into the newsletter! That would be cool. Apple is eventually going to put up PDFs of the posters, but until then, [...]
Appleication
So I applied to Apple’s Internship program. We’ll see what becomes of that. Man, it would be so cool to get to go to California to work for the Summer. I really want to live in California at some point in my life. Just to be in the Silicon Valley area would be great.
I get [...]
NHS, Botball Champs!
NHS has WON the 2005 National Botball Tournament in Jacksonville, FL!! They scored 80 points on their first seeding round because of a judge’s error. They next round they scored the highest score ever to be scored in botball…an astounding 164 points! No one could match it all day. In double elimination, they played some [...]
Waiting for school
I have a really crappy class that is very stupid. If you are in the college of engineering at OU, you have to take this bullshit class that is supposed to acclimate you to the college of engineering. We just listen (well listen is a strong word) to speakers for an hour and then go [...]