How is it this bad I don't even understand how things are this bad. They shouldn't be, it shouldn't be overwhelming, but I feel like I'm drowning, and I'm doing better than most everyone who's involved in this.

Why can't it just go away?

Our robot drove autonomously! It's bare bones WP following - it goes to a waypoint, not multiple ones, but it's huge progress. Especially considering that this includes doing intense curve planning. It looks like we may also already be hitting pretty high accuracy on our waypoints - hopefully getting within half a meter of where we're supposed to ( Read more... )

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

This making things business is pretty sweet.

So, Ellen decided we (Greg, myself, and her brother Stephen) were going to Michigan for her birthday. For 5 days. Awesome. Her family footed my plane ticket, so I'm not about to complain there ( Read more... )

Wooo, back from Hong Kong. And Thailand. And Seattle. Travel got a little crazy there, for a bit, but it was loads of fun - from lounging in the hotel bar playing pinochle in Bangkok to ordering overpriced room service in Seattle on Microsoft's dollar (unfortunately, no job offer, as I wasn't really well matched with the group I interviewed with ( Read more... )

I like it here, especially in Stanley (it's really pretty and not overly urban, but there's lots of shops and such). We are staying in my aunt's friend's flat, which is about 50m from the ocean. I'm going to fall asleep listening to the waves on the shore. I've only stayed up this long to try and force myself to adjust to local time.

Breakfast: 8oz. bottle of Dublin Dr. Pepper

Current agenda: prep for trip to Hong Kong (Greg and Ellen fly in tomorrow night; the three of us fly out Monday night/Tuesday morning)

I'm still alive.

Did a taped promo interview for the website yesterday, then had a Microsoft phone interview, then did last minute packing, flew to Austin with Eric (getting to the hotel at like 1:00am), and left at 7:30am for a full day of interviews at NI ( Read more... )

Well, ok, maybe I'm not all the way gone. But who knows?

I recently got a smartphone, and it has fundamentally changed the way I interact with the world. At this point, it is still a magic box, but from this point on it's going to become normal. So, I've decided to document this transition on the basis that this will never happen to me again.

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MSFT talks at Olin today were quite good; I particularly enjoyed danah boyd's talk on... lots of things. Mainly social networking and digital natives. Anyway, it was very interesting, and apparently is covered fairly extensively in her blog ( Read more... )