I used to joke that I was only coming to MIT because they had an awesome football team. Then I actually found out they had a football team and stopped joking. Then I found out the home games are a 3 minute walk from my dorm. So even though I had a meeting at kickoff, I went to the second half of the first MIT home football game ( Read more... )

I can think of no other time in my life where I've had more free food and free alcohol. This rules.

I'm afraid there's no way I can over exaggerate how AWESOME Ninja Gaiden II is. So rather than use words, I'll use pictures.

( Probably NSFW, but in an awesome, non-nudity way )

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Sometimes spilling your guts out is the best way to identify your problems and start to work on them. Other times is seems like laying it all out causes some invisible force to kick into action and changes the paradigms of the past ( Read more... )

So, I've been in Bahston for 6 weeks now. I've been concentrating mostly on work and getting to know the rocket payload, and despite how tedious that can be sometimes, I'm really making progress in learning how every single wire connects within that 18-in diameter, 8-feet long bunch of detectors, connectors, wires and plates. I can trace power ( Read more... )

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Dragonforce's new album comes out August 25th. Check out the new single, "Heroes of Our Time" at www.myspace.com/dragonforce. Lyrics available here.

So, as I described in a previous entry, I have a pretty cool job. My experience with electronics assembly, vacuum systems, rockets, optics, planetary science, observational astronomy, experimental design, and learning weird programs probably makes me the most qualified grad student to ever work on the project I'm currently on ( Read more... )

I think I may have finally hit the point where I'm in way over my head.