Just in case there are people following here but not my blog, we have:

- Mopey "I miss home" post
- My goals for this summer
- Google I/O Round-Up
- Zoo sketches, part one

I'm featured on Google Student Blog in their Googlers Beta series! Tehe :)

http://googleforstudents.blogspot.com/2009/11/googlers-beta-2009-edition-lu-chen.html

I really, really dislike gates. And transistors.

I've been swimming in D-latches, mutiplexers for the last two hours, and I still don't understand how to implement a 16-bit shifter or the FSM on this homework.

I have an exquisite bruise from paintball. It looks like a bullseye on my leg.

Happy fourth of July!

On Friday the 3rd, a small group of interns (Jeff, Kate, Tom, Mark, Andrew, Jo) and I drove up to Point Reyes for some hiking. I think there was also a third car going up, but we didn't hear from them so not sure if they ended up going or not.

On the way, our car (Mark, Andrew and I) stopped at Stinson Beach shortly to meet up ( Read more... )

Last Friday I went indoor skydiving on an intern trip. The place we went, iFly, has a vertical wind tunnel in the center enclosed by clear plexiglass walls. There's a wire mesh floor where you step in; down below you can see a lot of metal machinery which (presumably) generates the wind upwards. The tunnel also extends upwards, though I never ( Read more... )

Pictures from when I went up to San Francisco two weekends ago. Like the classic nerd I am, I visited the Exploratorium (which is surprising huge and awfully cool for a science museum) and then walked around Pier 39 to visit the sea lions and do tourist-y shopping. (I now have three hacky sacks that I shall use in my attempts to learn to juggle!)


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Crossposted:

For the last two weeks I've been slowly settling into work. There's still a lot of puzzlement and swimming-through-code on my part; I feel behind already and I feel like I should have more done by now. What I need to do is get a higher level view of what I need to get done (milestones on my project have yet to be established), what my ( Read more... )

Cross-posted @ http://incoherent-logic.blogspot.com/

Note: Writing comprises of my personal opinions and does not necessarily represent those of my employer or its employees. Also, there is a lot of stuff I'm not permitted to discuss, thus it has been ignored or omitted. :-)

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