My first real physics professor and second engineering professor passed away recently. I just heard about it from a fellow student. He wasn't the most liked professor and he lacked a certain appeal but in many ways he was the best physics professor I've known and certainly better than the TAs you usually get in lecture halls at UH. He fought a ( Read more... )

It's a new year so I'm gonna be making more entries! Ha! I doubt it.. I do want to do a semi-recap though. Since I've been here in Missouri, I've experienced 3 out of the 4 seasons that I never got to experience in Hawaii. This area is actually very mild when it comes to mainland weather owing to its location both in terms of latitude and also ( Read more... )

sigh.. can't sleep again. last full week in hawaii is now ending.. next week wednesday i return to missouri for what i think is a long while. it's not that i don't want to leave, it's just that i've always lived here. hawaii was where i was born, where i grew up, where a good portion of my family is. of course i'll come to visit and i'm ( Read more... )

Leaving the house in less than an hour. Then it's all about waiting. WAITING. OMG HURRY UP AND WAIT!! But in about.. 13 hours, I'll be in Missouri. :D The :D face doesn't completely express how I feel, but that's kind of the deal with the internet. There is no meme that can express how I feel right now. See you on the other side.

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

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so i picked up a full surround set consisting of KLH platinum series speakers and woofer and a sony str de 695 reciever. a pair of bose 201 series IV speakers were thrown in for good measure. as a little overview, my main setup in the living room consists of Sony SS TL-4 floor standing fronts, and the sony 3 way surround set from the mid 90's. ( Read more... )

Our senior design project is to build an offroad vehicle to compete against other schools vehicles in an offroad venue in Oregon. The major restriction is on the engine which has to be an unmodified 10 HP Briggs and Stratton lawnmower engine. I'm the suspension leader for the team and mainly focused on the front suspension. Most of my major ( Read more... )

The universe is an epic place. Go to astronomy picture of the day to see what I mean. It's too bad I won't be around to see most of it. This tiny iron sphere circling an indescript medium yellow star is are only stake in the whole universe. And we're fighting over such a tiny fraction of it. My professor made a bittersweet comment today. From ( Read more... )

I was watching that show on the discovery channel about the savant man who can see numbers in his head. He was talking with the real rain man, Kim Peeks about his extraordinary memory. Anyway, one of the things that the show mentions is Synesthasia. Wiki it. Basically, you feel senses of one type in another way. You can smell sounds, taste ( Read more... )

i've been working solidworks for like.. 10 hours straight now.. this is pretty insane. maybe i should attempt to do work in my other classes too.