Supposedly I'll hear back within a week about whether I will be doing an REU this summer. I'm excited!

Introduction: Progress and investments towards a greener world are systematically multi-faceted towards i) improving existing infrastructures, ii) incorporating new findings to help current systems evolve and iii) investigating new alternatives to use—or reuse—as energy resources. This REU site is proposed on such a premise of ongoing research and development projects at Drexel University, in urban Philadelphia, on “Power and Energy: The Old, the New and The Renewable”:

1. “The Old” consists of ongoing research on the nation’s electrical power grids at the major scale and the computational efforts towards a smarter grid,
2. “The New” consists of research on the power dissipation of computing data centers and the design of ultra-portable communication devices, which are topics that have recently increased in criticality in terms of the impact size,
3. “The Renewable” consists of research on promising areas for alternative power sources and conductors, such as graphene sheets, photovoltaic cells (nanowire-based) and fuel cells.

edit: rejected.

I've been playing a decent amount of Fallout3. Wanted to show some love for the Pip-Boy

Galactic Empire State of Mind
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1931187

Skateboard dog! A viral video I saw a while ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdgO3cEYYTw

CapitalOne was advertising this during the NCAA tournament. It's actually not that bad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2evawTJgu6E

I'm going to miss the UW basketball game tomorrow because of class, but I will get to watch some of the Sounders game afterwards.

What a nice logo.

In my music class we've started using Max. I'm going to try messing around with it to see if it's useful for graphics, too.

This is one of the funniest things I have ever seen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzcR7eDSxHc

The NCAA tournament bracket is a good inspiration for something. So symmetrical.

great flash game

http://armorgames.com/play/4309/this-is-the-only-level

inspiration for mafia card images

I did the king cake competition thing with three friends yesterday. We made a triple-decker. Now it's sitting in my room and nobody is eating it.

Reducing noise from the sky is really hard

My Data Visualization professor somehow got us free licenses for an expensive graph/chart software program called Tableau. I just downloaded it and haven't tried it yet but I hope it's as good as it sounds.

It has a good logo.