November 2005

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Laser is Better

11/30/2005 in Geek Stuff, Ideas, Questions by Elliot Lee | 2 comments

I was walking down the hall listening to my inkjet printer cranking away, and a peculiar thought struck me. LASERs are astounding (LASER = Light Amplification Of Stimulated Emission Of Radiation, I looked it up, didn’t memorize it). Really. Think about this for a moment.

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Robots, Math, phpBB Star, MP3 Shack, Pete, Ishwar, Essays

11/30/2005 in Forums, Midnight Messages, USC, Work by Elliot Lee | 2 comments

[MM] I woke this morning in time to finish my Calculus homework before going to EE 106 to work with Michael O. on our robot. We’re supposed to make it run through an obstacle course, but the IR detectors see too far. We need to somehow make it more nearsighted. Otherwise, we can’t detect small gaps in walls. Perhaps there’s a bug in our code: thinking back on it, the sensors seemed to be more sensitive before. Yet there was always a problem with close accuracy. I brought the robot back to the dorm to work on; let’s hope we do before the last class session (Thursday).

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Enable Sending Referrers

11/29/2005 in Work by Elliot Lee | No comments

I created a new installation of WordPress on MP3 Shack.us, and got this error:

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Pete Carroll in Person

11/29/2005 in Questions, USC by Elliot Lee | 2 comments

I saw Pete Carroll today in Heritage Hall. I was close enough that I could have reached out and touched him. He’s something of a celebrity these days, so I thought I’d mention it :)

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Pool, Bible Study, Web Development

11/29/2005 in Midnight Messages, Neat Stuff, USC by Elliot Lee | 2 comments

In this edition of the Midnight Message™, I’ll be writing a few sentences about a very exciting day. It has really been packed, but I don’t want this to run too long. First, I went to sleep at about 4 AM (looks like that might happen again tonight), waking at about 9 AM for 5 hours of sleep (my goal is at least 6). Then I had my last Core 111 class session. It was fun: we presented our “creative” A7 projects (mine is this – hopefully I’m allowed to post the link, it’s a static page). Then I went to Parkside for lunch before my Math 126 lecture. Only two left now. We completed professor evaluations for Prof. Honda at the end of class today. It’s both depressing and exciting that there’s only one week of classes left. It has gone by so fast, it will be strange when it’s over. 15 weeks.

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Media: Wall Street Journal

11/29/2005 in Neat Stuff by Elliot Lee | 3 comments

I’ve been mentioned in an article published by the Wall Street Journal: Read the rest of this entry »

Church and Thinking

11/28/2005 in Goals, Midnight Messages, Questions by Elliot Lee | 2 comments

Aaron (12:19:38 AM): midnight message =)

I think that’s a good enough introduction. Today I woke up to go to church, it being Sunday. Though the message I’m sure was good, I must admit to falling nearly asleep, such that I don’t remember much of what was said. I do feel better for having heard it, though it’s probably hiding somewhere in my subconscious. Sunday school was interesting. Supposedly we were to talk about the stories of our lives, which is strangely relevant because I’m currently writing the story of a character’s life in a book that I read for Core 102 (for my writing class). Hopefully I’ll be able to pull off an intriguing “interpretive lens,” as we’re supposed to do.

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Happy 50th Birthday, Bill Nye

11/27/2005 in Entertainment, Questions, TechTV by Elliot Lee | 1 comment

Bill Nye the Science Guy was born on November 27, 1955, making him 50 years old today (if my math is right). He is a mechanical engineer who graduated from Cornell in 1977 with a B.S., and became licensed in the state of Washington in 1983. He developed a hydraulic pressure resonance suppressor used by Boeing in the 747.

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War Research

11/27/2005 in Geek Stuff, Neat Stuff by Elliot Lee | 2 comments

Some of the greatest breakthroughs were made possible by war. As devastating as it is, I can’t help but think that it’s easily possible for war to be a good thing. Without it, people are lazy. And with it, research projects get funding.

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Biking and Harry Potter

11/27/2005 in Midnight Messages, Neat Stuff by Elliot Lee | No comments

For tonight’s Midnight Message™, we’ll take a look at today’s main events: riding my bike for a little while, and watching Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (the DVD) while eating dinner. I woke this morning late, as usual, and ate a bao for breakfast. Then I took to reading An Artist of the Floating World, a textbook for Core 102 with Prof. Lemon. Indeed, this is mainly what I was doing all day: reading the book.

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