My two favorite experiences in the last couple weeks are climbing mountains and morel mushrooms ( Read more... )

So I'm in Washington (state) right now, typing this at the dinner table of my Redmond apartment. I'm working at Microsoft this summer as an intern in the Windows Live Mobile team. It's a great group and I'm really excited to be here ( Read more... )

Ok, this is cool enough for a post.

Facebook recently unveiled a new feature that I actually like: Lexicon. It lets you compare the usage of certain words on Facebook with graphs and stuff. Here are a few choice selections.

The state of our nation's youth
What's on the mind of college students
Gold star for mindshare

There is a door on the top floor of the math and physics building that says "Do NOT Open Except In Case of Fire!". Which is an invitation to do just the opposite. What could be on the other side?

I open it, the alarm goes off, and I see a hallway with professors' offices. NOT worth it.

Seeing as several friends have taken up posting on here again, I figure I'll give it a start. To paraphrase one of you, "If (insert friend's name here) has time to post, then surely I can manage one or two ( Read more... )

Whoop-dee-dee! The trebuchet is done. I fired it thrice from my deck using a calculator, flashlight, and bottle of wood glue as counter-weight to throw a hacky-sack across my back yard. It went about twenty feet or so, although it did hit a tree before it peaked out. Tomorrow I take it to an open space and have some fun. Pictures later.

My brother has to build a trebuchet for his TAG class. I get to help him. I suppose most kids will build a toy one, so we're going to have to do something awesome to outdo them.

Because that's what it's all about.

Mmm, I love my physics class. Our exam is comprised of two main sections that correspond to the two midterms that we took, and one small section of material we haven't had an exam over yet. My prof said that if our midterm grades were higher than our grades on the corresponding exam sections, then he would just use those midterm grades instead ( Read more... )

It's official - I've sold out. I'm interning at Microsoft this summer. w00t!

A quick post between homework and a meeting ( Read more... )