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Ideas

The desire to build is strong with me, but I never got the training (same with drawing too). I guess that’s why the Arduino is sitting there, collecting dust. I wish there’s just labs where we build stuff here at Cornell.

But anyways… ideas:

  1. App where it shows the approximate location of buses as markers on Google maps using time data, and not GPS (too expensive). I think this should be fairly doable in the grand scheme of things.
  2. Clock where the hour is given by the shape of the polygon displayed. I see glimpses of coolness here, but can’t put my hands on it.

 

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Magic, Math, and Cooking

For the past few days, I’ve been just existing. I’m not wasting the day in anyways though. The day was spent shopping at Wegman’s Wednesday, while yesterday was spent cleaning the entire house.

Even without classes, I still feel that I’m not accomplishing much. I want to be great at math, start being decent at magic, and great at clarinet; also P90Xing on top of all that. That’s over 4 hours right there.

Am I over-exerting myself in expecting mastery in such diverse hobbies? Probably.

Will I keep on trying? Of course.

Lets just hope I don’t die this semester.

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Dreams

Had two dreams recently that was pretty weird…

  1. I had to hide in a hut when a comet shower was going on… which turned out to be a bunch of meteors striking the Earth. I think I was with a few REU folks… and then I had to dodge a rolling ball of fire.Influences: RTW II videos and the actual comet shower.
  2. I bitched about someone in front of a large group. I don’t bitch to people in large groups….

 

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Take It Back to Square One

After a long program like my recent REU where I hung out with a group of awesome people for such a long time that I forget the outside world, I reminisce about past groups. I think back to my MAO conventions where I flirted with love, jump back in time to the All-District concert with Dr. Green cheering us on during Maslanka… but I always feel sad afterwards that my memory of them is incomplete.

I wish I kept a consistent journal throughout my years to see how I developed. Sometimes when I clean my room in Tallahassee, I would find a little unicorn book where I wrote notes in third and fourth grade. Runescape notes dominated the pages (and a crush for a Megan Morris? … who is this girl?).

Hopefully I can start writing about my feelings/notes on daily life on here more. After all, I am spending a good amount to have this website and domain under my name.

Well. Back to square one.

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Fun with PIL

After installing Python(x,y), I’ve decided to play around with the various modules and applications packaged. The IDE that came with the package (Spyder) is surprisingly useful and feature-rich, which is helping me immensely with visualizing data from my work (in conjunction with the packaged matplotlib). Just yesterday, I’ve decided to dip my hands into the imaging library (PIL) and see what features it has by making a Adele-esque album cover.

I took an old photo of mine, cropped my face out, and placed it on a transparent background using Photoshop. Next, I cropped out Adele’s hand from the album and saved that as a separate image.

Now using PIL, I was able to copy my head and Adele’s hand onto a new image, rotate the said image, and add text to it. It was surprisingly… easy.

Code here.

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Why?

It has been almost 4 years since President Obama has been in office, and the birthers has mostly subsided. But this morning, WFSU reported some crazy Florida raising the issue once again.

According to WFSU:

Klayman [a conservative legal activist] said the president is not a natural-born citizen because his father was not a U.S. citizen.

I guess Mr. Klayman doesn’t believe that Thomas Jefferson is a US citizen seeing that his mother was born in London.

Why Mr. Klayman? Why?

 

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J. Crew

In my effort to be more well-dressed, I decided to go to J. Crew yesterday and spend some of my money. Thing is, there is no J. Crew in Tallahassee.

“No problem! I can just buy this stuff at Cornell. After all, all Ivy Leagues MUST have some sort of J. Crew by it!”

Apparently I am wrong. The closest J. Crew around Cornell is over an hour away. Lets compare that to the other Ivy Leagues (according to Google Maps):

  • Brown: 7 minutes away
  • Harvard: 10 minutes away
  • Princeton: right across the street. (“I have never seen so many J. Crew in my life” – Hellogoodbye)
  • UPenn: 10 minutes away
  • Yale: 6 minutes away
  • Columbia: 12 minutes

I hearby pronounce that Cornell and Dartmouth (~1 hour) officially not part of the Ivy League conference.

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The Great Leader’s Secret Plan

We all know that North Korea is pretty messed up. Plucked straight from a 50’s Cold War film, and dropped in the middle of the Korean Peninsula, the country is in shambles compared to its neighbors. It’s no surprise that the “UN’s representative in Pyongyang says about half the country’s children are stunted from malnutrition” (What is surprising though is Kim Jong-un admitting that fact).

What the world doesn’t know is that the North Koreans is preparing for the dark future; a future predicted by Lycerius. By starving its citizens now, the North Koreans has accelerated human evolution. Eventually, the North Koreans will all be more diminutive, and needing less food. In the future of the world covered by swampland, North Koreans will reign supreme in this new world. They have plenty of time to develop the technology, or just steal/share the technology from/with China.

It’s a perfect, cynical plan.

 

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Airplane Conversation

Me: so who are you going to Vegas with?
Him: actually funny story. My buddy just turned 21 and he bought tickets for his girlfriend and himself, but they broke up 2 days ago. So basically I got a free ticket here.
Me: haha, so you are a rebound brofriend?
Him: well, I am gay hahaha
Me: hahaha etc.

Uber-cool