Monthly Archives: January 2007

I’m not meteorologist, but today was one of the foggiest days I can recall. The darkened woods around my house were almost surreal with the haloed glow of neighbors’ lights, and the loudest sound was the whoosh of I-95, two … Continue reading →

I don’t think there’s any news. I ate formerly frozen pizza for dinner. It was yummy. I was in lab until like 8 trying to get my scan tank to take clean data. The data is still ugly. I have … Continue reading →

I’ve spent essentially all day writing my paper. It’s due tomorrow, and I wouldn’t say it’s done, but there’s really only one more subsection to write. Hopefully tomorrow morning I’ll have an easier time understanding why the Conjugate Gradient method … Continue reading →

I spent like 10 hours in lab today, which was definitely too much. I think I may skip tomorrow to rewrite this essay that’s due Thursday (it pretty much has to double in length, at least). On the plus side, … Continue reading →

I’ve set my alarm clock to 8:30 AM in an attempt to get onto a more reasonable schedule. I went into work relatively early today, hoping to get a full day in. I did manage to (almost) complete the hardware … Continue reading →

I had dinner with Graham, or rather, Graham made dinner, and I ate it. It was delicious as usual; Graham’s intuitive Cook Fu is astonishing. I hate parking in Graham’s driveway, because it’s barely wider than my car, so I … Continue reading →

Yesterday, I got the motor control software to drive an older version of the motor controller than the one for which it was originally written. Today, I got the program to take input from an oscilloscope that’s older than the … Continue reading →

So everything’s in order in Boston. Yesterday I started my new research internship thingy. I don’t have a project yet, but in the mean time I’ve reverse-engineered and cloned the serial-port driver for a 3-axis positioning system used as part … Continue reading →

Last night was fun. I celebrated with Paul and Christina by having a feast (a pretty modest feast, really, but a feast of our own creation and therefore a delicious one). We ate burgers and watched the last two episodes … Continue reading →