three questions for you!

[nibot]

AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION TIME

1. What are your summer plans?

2. If you're in Berkeley, how long will you be sticking around?

3. Tell me about something cool.

4. What is your operating hypothesis? (extra credit)

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answering my own questions

[nibot.livejournal.com]

1. I'm working at the Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) and the San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC) at UCSD on some kind of project relating to geophysical data networks. I still don't know how much will be geophysics and how much will be data networks — I sort of fear that I'm being bait-and-switched. Nonetheless I am looking forward to a summer in southern california, since I have not spent the summer there since 1998.

2. I'm starting at UCSD on June 1. I have to stick around here until this project I'm working on is finished, but it will fill 120% of the time available, so I will probably be here until the last minute. On the other hand, it would be nice to escape for a little vacation and/or have time to find a place to live in SD.

3. Michael Moore's new movie is called "Fahrenheit 9/11". hilarious!

I'm also looking forward to working on projects at home in MV and exploring the SoCal areas. Some things on my agenda:

• try to catch up on my physics so that I won't be too far behind when I start gradschool in late august

• go on a road trip in mexico!

• hang out with the kids doing the UCSD REU in physics

• go to england or taiwan — but that's prolly not going to happen, as there's no time! )-:

• go hiking with squarkz if she actually comes to visit SoCal

• build a paraboloid reflector by spinning a vat of plaster! [link (http://www.livejournal.com/users/nibot_lab/17344.html)]

• build a multi-channel breakbeam detector to measure the exit velocity of a potato from the potato cannon (http://splorg.org/people/tobin/spudgun/). mr.brei uses potato cannons to teach improvised weaponry projectile motion to his physics course, and I think it would be handy to have an actual measurement of the exit velocity

• learn about wireless networks

• hang out with my friend john (squibb but never updates)

• go to the beach a lot

Re: answering my own questions

[roxymartini.livejournal.com]

MEXICO MEXICO MEXICO!!
You must inform me of when this is.

and this disreputable "squarkz"... thought you were never actually meeting her in person? worrisome.

Re: answering my own questions

[squarkz.livejournal.com]

i am disreputable?!

holy crap! never been called that.

but the disreputable types are always the most fun.

Re: answering my own questions

[squarkz.livejournal.com]

i didn't know you were going to be at IGPP!

i'm so jealous.

i'm not really sure why i didn't apply there. well, probably because one of the faculty was a jerk to me, and also becuase i just don't think i'd like san diego all that much. (cough.)