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Progressology
A nexus of technology, permaculture, and everyday life
Work imitates life.
Thoughts.
Remember that we are done in by our sins — and not for our sins. Also, recall that in nature there is no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ choice — simply a decision with consequences.
These aren’t personal quotes — but they were in my head this morning. I felt bad because I didn’t get very far on my mask design (for copper electro-plating) last night. … Now it’s going to be a long day.
Sol of Auburn team-members; past and present at Saturday’s Homecoming Tailgate hosted by the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering at Auburn University.
The Fall 2011 Class Wafer for Auburn’s Microfabrication Class. Everyone’s design is included in this layout — and everyone processes one wafer. With that much redundancy everyone should see their CAD model working as a transistor/capacitor/resistor…
![Saturday morning at 9:30 I rolled out of bed - grabbed my water bottle - and got on my bike. My friend George was already outside of my apartment and our plan was to ride from my place to the Pleasant Hill trail in the Tuskegee national forest — mostly down Wire Rd, past The Torch truck-stop and then a short ride on a highway shoulder until reaching the trail-head.
After a short ride on the trail the asphalt made the first part of the ride home seem not as bad as the ride there — until two dogs ran out from someone’s front yard and started chasing me at full speed. After about two-minutes of the dogs lunging open mouthed at my ankles, they were pooped and just gave up. We stopped for a short break once we were a few minutes out of reach — and started the slow crawl home. I think I stopped four times on the stretch between Shug Jordan and Glenn. I’ve never cycled 30+ miles before — but I think if I made this a regular part of my weekend I might be able to ride through Bartram and Pleasant Hill before heading back to Auburn. Might have to look into getting a dog whistle too.
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Saturday morning at 9:30 I rolled out of bed - grabbed my water bottle - and got on my bike. My friend George was already outside of my apartment and our plan was to ride from my place to the Pleasant Hill trail in the Tuskegee national forest — mostly down Wire Rd, past The Torch truck-stop and then a short ride on a highway shoulder until reaching the trail-head.
After a short ride on the trail the asphalt made the first part of the ride home seem not as bad as the ride there — until two dogs ran out from someone’s front yard and started chasing me at full speed. After about two-minutes of the dogs lunging open mouthed at my ankles, they were pooped and just gave up. We stopped for a short break once we were a few minutes out of reach — and started the slow crawl home. I think I stopped four times on the stretch between Shug Jordan and Glenn. I’ve never cycled 30+ miles before — but I think if I made this a regular part of my weekend I might be able to ride through Bartram and Pleasant Hill before heading back to Auburn. Might have to look into getting a dog whistle too.
[Image via delalyra]
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Check out my office! Another reminder that I need to work on my Mandarin…
Interesting Day
I felt pretty good about my neural networks homework today. But when class started the professor mentioned that not enough students were checking their solutions via computer.
“ … It’s like a civil engineer building a road with a shovel — when you need to be organizing heavy machinery”
In short — we should all write programs (“Matlab, Perl, Python, … C … C++ … I don’t know … Basic? Visual Basic?! … You get the point?”) to simulate our networks. We should plot the shapes and look at them, etc. We should train neural networks to solve our homework. etc. etc.
We were all eager to turn in our homework — it’s now due two days from now. Bar = Raised.
Oh, and I have an office. It’s one floor below the lab and I share it with folks who aren’t in my group — but at least it’s a quiet place to study and do my neural networks homework.
To Mobile!
I hate waiting — I have to be on campus at one to see about an SEM microscope (awesome right?) and then I’ve got a meeting at four…
… so I’m just going to listening to early 00’s German hiphop while I wait
Class Reunion
I’ve been invited to my 5-year high school class reunion, via Facebook. It’s in December and I’ll be home anyway — so why not.
It is my pleasure to let you know that you have been admitted to our MS program. effective Fall 2011. A formal email will follow soon. Congratulations.
Hey tumblr friends! Some of you are new - and a few have been here since I first signed up in 2008. Back then I wasn’t ready to call myself an engineer until I finished my bachelor’s degree. Since then I’ve learned more, seen more, and realized that I still actually know damn little.
To all of you - you’ve opened my eyes to so much and I want to thank you for that. I hope your posts and reblogs will continue to inspire me to question and push me to accept new ideas.
