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san diego update
Jun. 2nd, 2004 11:24 pmWell, UCSD / SDSC / SIO / IGPP is keeping me incredibly busy. Well, actually they've just sort of set me loose and they seem to be expecting quite a lot, so I've been keeping myself quite busy. I'm probably going to start posting frequent updates to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nibot_lab, but in the meantime this article provides a good snapshot of the system I'm working on. Officially I'm to implement a connection between PtolemyII/Kepler and BRTT Antelope. It picks up almost exactly where my work in Alaska left off — that was in 1999. It's kind of cool returning to the project after five years and seeing the incredible progress that they've made.
UCSD campus is kind of mind-boggling. It seems vastly huge and walking from place to place seems like a chore. I don't know why I feel that way, since I will power-walk across Berkeley without complaint. The campus has a lot of really huge buildings, but there is also a preponderance of flat-topped low buildings. There is a residential college system, meaning that frosh live in dorms quite literally 'on campus' amongst the other buildings, concentrated in 'colleges' -- but other than the convenient frosh housing, nobody seems particularly excited about the college system. I'm told that few students live near campus, since La Jolla is so expensive, so there are lots of commuters. The campus seems to be surrounded by huge seas of parking lot, although they are still not enough. I think you could fit the entire UC Berkeley campus into a UCSD parking lot! Berkeley seems kind of quaint and small by comparison, but I do feel kind of lost without the surrounding college town. Anyway, hopefully I'll meet some more people and get to know the area better.
Hmm. Not much else to report. I'm watching a program on maglev trains on TV (such a novelty! TV, I mean) (atsquibb's house) that's pretty exciting. Apparently there is a handful of operating maglev trains in the world, including a prototype somewhere in the USA. Looks like fun... Of yeah, the other fun thing I did today was to go to class with John.. he's in a class on "Sex and the Law" taught by a former executive director of the ACLU.. it was interesting and hilarious all at the same time. .. and to look forward to on friday, there is some Traditional Watermelon Drop ("Come see your Queen drop the melon from the top of Urey Hall" - "Don't miss the oldest tradition at UCSD!" "Melon Madness immediately following"). I'll give you a full report.
nibot_lab, but in the meantime this article provides a good snapshot of the system I'm working on. Officially I'm to implement a connection between PtolemyII/Kepler and BRTT Antelope. It picks up almost exactly where my work in Alaska left off — that was in 1999. It's kind of cool returning to the project after five years and seeing the incredible progress that they've made.UCSD campus is kind of mind-boggling. It seems vastly huge and walking from place to place seems like a chore. I don't know why I feel that way, since I will power-walk across Berkeley without complaint. The campus has a lot of really huge buildings, but there is also a preponderance of flat-topped low buildings. There is a residential college system, meaning that frosh live in dorms quite literally 'on campus' amongst the other buildings, concentrated in 'colleges' -- but other than the convenient frosh housing, nobody seems particularly excited about the college system. I'm told that few students live near campus, since La Jolla is so expensive, so there are lots of commuters. The campus seems to be surrounded by huge seas of parking lot, although they are still not enough. I think you could fit the entire UC Berkeley campus into a UCSD parking lot! Berkeley seems kind of quaint and small by comparison, but I do feel kind of lost without the surrounding college town. Anyway, hopefully I'll meet some more people and get to know the area better.
Hmm. Not much else to report. I'm watching a program on maglev trains on TV (such a novelty! TV, I mean) (at
squibb's house) that's pretty exciting. Apparently there is a handful of operating maglev trains in the world, including a prototype somewhere in the USA. Looks like fun... Of yeah, the other fun thing I did today was to go to class with John.. he's in a class on "Sex and the Law" taught by a former executive director of the ACLU.. it was interesting and hilarious all at the same time. .. and to look forward to on friday, there is some Traditional Watermelon Drop ("Come see your Queen drop the melon from the top of Urey Hall" - "Don't miss the oldest tradition at UCSD!" "Melon Madness immediately following"). I'll give you a full report.
