Tuesday, March 01, 2005
I've got some good news about school.
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Wait, that must have been a typo. Let me try that again. I have some good news about school.
What? You crazy? Good news? Oh, well I *have* to put this up on the blog. I've been trying to line up a project for myself for my Adaptive Signal Processing class. It has to be a *real* project. It has to have real data, it has to involve a real problem, it has to be an actual task. No making something up. Real. Really real. So for real.
I've made a step down the appropriate path, now, too. I finally managed to get in touch with someone at the House Ear Institute in Los Angeles. They do cochlear implants. It's techy stuff! I should be able to get a project out of it! I'm going up on friday to meet with the good doctor and discuss the possibilities. I should dress up nice.
So, yeah, that's good news.
TKD sparring night again, went pretty well. I'm trying to use my right leg more and stay in my 'left-handed fighter' stance more. This means I need to do more 'fake and back-leg kick' stuff, work on my spinning hook kick, get some combos going, the usual stuff. I'm definitely thinking more training is needed, overall, but that'll wait until school steps down a bit.
This is going to be a tough upcoming week. I have to do my take-home midterm for adaptive processing *and* study for my pattern recognition class. [restraint] This will be a difficult task. [/restraint] Pattern recognition is open everything, though, which is good in this particular instance, but I don't like so much overall. I like cheat sheets. Writing everything down is good study methodology. Usually I don't even use most of the cheat sheet. But in this case, when we have so many equations (and I have so little time to study) I support this selection wholeheartedly.
March 11th. Over christmas break I flew around a bunch, and Alaska Airlines was giving away free gift certificates to eat at McCormick and Schmicks on every flight that was late. I got two of them. I gave one away a while ago, cause I'm a pushover, and because I didn't think I'd use both, but I still have one left, and it expires March 16th. March 11th will be my day off after both my midterms. I'm going to McCormick and Schmick on the 11th. The only thing that can concievably deter me from that goal is if something cooler happens that day. Perhaps I'll even go watch a movie. Like Hitch, perhaps.
Speaking of being a pushover and dating...actually, nevermind. That's a *much* larger blog entry than I have time for right now.
March 18th, YESNet is having a huge awesome event. YESNet is Young Engineers and Scientists Network, which is basically 'kids at Rayteon'. Heh. They're having a grand gathering at Dave and Busters, which is like an Arcade, but they serve Booze too. I think I want to go. Should be fun.
I hop around the net, on occasion, and I pick up some really neat links. Y'all should check these out. They're pretty cool.
Baby Name Voyager
Is your name among the top 1000? When was it most popular? How long has it been since anyone named their kid 'Horace'? Or just click wierd names and explore.
Banksy
He's a grafitti artist, but he's a really *good* grafitti artist.
How to Destroy the Earth
A comparative study.
Lost America
Pictures of old abandoned roadside...uh...stuff.
Ugh...I'd write more, but my eyes are starting to wig out. Enjoy.
-N
...
Wait, that must have been a typo. Let me try that again. I have some good news about school.
What? You crazy? Good news? Oh, well I *have* to put this up on the blog. I've been trying to line up a project for myself for my Adaptive Signal Processing class. It has to be a *real* project. It has to have real data, it has to involve a real problem, it has to be an actual task. No making something up. Real. Really real. So for real.
I've made a step down the appropriate path, now, too. I finally managed to get in touch with someone at the House Ear Institute in Los Angeles. They do cochlear implants. It's techy stuff! I should be able to get a project out of it! I'm going up on friday to meet with the good doctor and discuss the possibilities. I should dress up nice.
So, yeah, that's good news.
TKD sparring night again, went pretty well. I'm trying to use my right leg more and stay in my 'left-handed fighter' stance more. This means I need to do more 'fake and back-leg kick' stuff, work on my spinning hook kick, get some combos going, the usual stuff. I'm definitely thinking more training is needed, overall, but that'll wait until school steps down a bit.
This is going to be a tough upcoming week. I have to do my take-home midterm for adaptive processing *and* study for my pattern recognition class. [restraint] This will be a difficult task. [/restraint] Pattern recognition is open everything, though, which is good in this particular instance, but I don't like so much overall. I like cheat sheets. Writing everything down is good study methodology. Usually I don't even use most of the cheat sheet. But in this case, when we have so many equations (and I have so little time to study) I support this selection wholeheartedly.
March 11th. Over christmas break I flew around a bunch, and Alaska Airlines was giving away free gift certificates to eat at McCormick and Schmicks on every flight that was late. I got two of them. I gave one away a while ago, cause I'm a pushover, and because I didn't think I'd use both, but I still have one left, and it expires March 16th. March 11th will be my day off after both my midterms. I'm going to McCormick and Schmick on the 11th. The only thing that can concievably deter me from that goal is if something cooler happens that day. Perhaps I'll even go watch a movie. Like Hitch, perhaps.
Speaking of being a pushover and dating...actually, nevermind. That's a *much* larger blog entry than I have time for right now.
March 18th, YESNet is having a huge awesome event. YESNet is Young Engineers and Scientists Network, which is basically 'kids at Rayteon'. Heh. They're having a grand gathering at Dave and Busters, which is like an Arcade, but they serve Booze too. I think I want to go. Should be fun.
I hop around the net, on occasion, and I pick up some really neat links. Y'all should check these out. They're pretty cool.
Baby Name Voyager
Is your name among the top 1000? When was it most popular? How long has it been since anyone named their kid 'Horace'? Or just click wierd names and explore.
Banksy
He's a grafitti artist, but he's a really *good* grafitti artist.
How to Destroy the Earth
A comparative study.
Lost America
Pictures of old abandoned roadside...uh...stuff.
Ugh...I'd write more, but my eyes are starting to wig out. Enjoy.
-N
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