A bunch of Oliners went to the Owl City concert at the House of Blues (admittedly, I was a lot more excited about LIGHTS). It was interesting - the sound balance was really screwed up for both Paper Route (didn't like their sound a whole lot) and LIGHTS. They really needed to crank down the bass and drums, and then adjust the gain on the mics so ( Read more... )

A bunch of Oliners put together a hackathon - we made a site called Back of the Plane (http://www.backoftheplane.com) that helps users find interesting people on their flights ( Read more... )

So it turns out that not sleeping enough all week and then sleeping a whole lot at once is maybe not the best plan ever. Probably didn't help that we [Greg + me] didn't get back to campus until about midnight. Still, going to Funstop [in New Hampshire, bills itself as being the world's largest arcade] with fellow HelloSilo-ers was totally awesome. ( Read more... )

Just finished ROFLthing '09... Wasn't really expected to get drafted into helping out, but I ended up spending most of the con helping keep an eye on the gang of Anonymous kids that showed up. They were a trip - heckled the first two presenters to hell, kept posting stupid stuff to backchan.nl, and just generally acted suspect the entire time. We ( Read more... )

Finally got http://velociraptorz.org launched this weekend [site was actually up earlier last week, but we didn't start really publicizing until Sunday ( Read more... )

We [a small handful of Olin students + a whole bunch of MIT students] accidentally DDOSed a website ( Read more... )

Just an update on how classes are going, what they are, etc ( Read more... )

So we had a Teacher Jam at Google Chicago, and it was awesome. First off, I really want to work somewhere like Google. Their office is amazing - it's super colorful, there are comfy things everywhere, there are bins of snacks and fridges full of smoothies, and there was even a [big] TV hooked up to YouTube in the lounge/kitchen area. They hosted ( Read more... )

Despite waking up in an absurdly foul mood, I am now happy.

Birthday was good. Pat got me a camera bag, dad got me a new lens [55-200, afjklsdfh *happy*], grandma gave me the usual money, etc. More notably, Mel took me electronics shopping at Fry's [and bought me strippers]. I also got an @laptop.org email address, so I guess now I'm a cool

No, really, they are. Mel is loaning me one to play with [we are hoping to be able to use it to process sensor input for peripheral development]. So far I've only got basic blinky light going [the "hello world!" of microcontrollers, apparently] due to lack of breadboard. I foresee an electronics shopping trip in the near future ( Read more... )