My grandmother died a few weeks ago. I flew back to LA, and have been pretty bummed out. I know I haven't used LJ much at all, mainly because I have been very busy. Everyone here is very excited about the frozen sea on the mars.. It's funny how grown men, scientists, can act like little school girls at times. I was only on LJ for such a short ( Read more... )

I haven't used LJ really since it went down. I have been writing my thoughts on scraps of papers and napkins, perhaps I will transcribe them. I doubt I was missed, but I am ok.

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Sometimes I sit on here and read like 4th generation friends of friends of friends, and I comment, and the people are like, "how the hell did you find this?". Now you know. And knowing, well that's half the battle ( Read more... )

I was thinking it would be cool to build a little bot in my spare time out here. I used to participate in the FIRST Robotics Competition when I was in high school ( I went to a technology magnet school). I was trying to think about the applications, and I thought it would be cool to build a small nanobot with embedded linux that could map out wifi ( Read more... )

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My good friend is working on a study of type II diabetes in the general population. At the current rate, in fifty years, one out of ever two Americans will have type II diabetes due to obesity. 75% of the US population will be severely obese. It is really sad. She shows me all these pictures of of obese toddlers and preschoolers. It is a very sad ( Read more... )

It has been 100 years since Albert Einstein had his miracle year, to my knowledge, no one has accomplished so much in such little time, perhaps Isaac Newton. Einstein, in less than a year, demonstrated that atoms exist, presented the special theory of relativity, and essentially erected quantum theory as we know it. If you are interested in Quantum ( Read more... )

it's so funny, no matter where you go, everyone stays the same.