Well, i've been pretty busy with school. Vibrations and Controls are kickin my butt, and my senior design class is going to start ramping up. On the other hand though, microprocessor design is super cool because i am finally understanding how a computer really works, except assembly language is still a complete mystery. There are like two people who haven't taken the second semester programming class, and i am one of them. I read to and wrote from RAM the other night, and i made a neat little LED Display light up in a bunch of cool patterns. Last, WT is really awesome, because for the last two days we have been watching episodes from James Burke's "The Day the Universe Changed" in class, so i went to the library and started reading that and his other book "Connections" again. They have got to be the two best history/politics/culture/etc books that i have ever read. They tie together history how i think it really happened, and how it should be taught. History doesn't fit into these little chapters and sections with nice headings and everything didn't go along perfectly. Everybody should go pick them up and read them, and if you have already read them, then you should read them again.
Oh, funny story. In Controls this week i was sitting, listening to Dr. Snyder talk about why the feedback loop on the controller needed to be differentiating the response or some such nonsense, when all of the sudden he just stops and looks right at me, he gets all excited, and asks "Are you a buddhist?" I sat in a daze for a few moments and tried to first figure out if he was talking to me, and then second why he would ask me that. About halfway through responding that no i am not a buddhist, it dawned on me that i was wearing my cool shirt from Nepal with apparently buddhist writings on it (Nicole Busch told me what it meant once but i forgot). He then made some comment about just liking the shirt and everybody had a good laugh, but it really threw me off. Okay, so not really a funny story, but everybody had a good laugh, and i just hope that i am that excited about little things when i am old, like when he saw a nickle on the ground, shouted "oh, look, money" and ran over and picked it up and stood there like a little boy all proud of his find. The best part was when he started saying whatever was on my shirt later as he was writing on the board, really weird.
Mary and i had a great time at the air races, wait, i had a great time at the air races and mary just kind of pretended to have a great time, but that is okay. Rare Bear was back this year, and it sounded awesome. But Dago Red (sounded awesome too) went over 500mph for all six laps on friday and Rare Bear just couldn't keep up. That plane was just flying around the course. The best part i think was that i don't think anybody died or even really got hurt this year, which is awesome. I got to the see the stealth fighter fly around, an A-10, F-16, F-18, the T-6 race, the Jet race (which sucked, only two jets ended up racing) and the unlimited silver and gold races) I just really want to see a F-4u, a P-38, and a Spitfire at some point, even if they were just reproductions or something. Maybe next year.
Posted by cmorton at September 18, 2003 06:58 PM | TrackBack