Work has been keeping me busy, but here it is finally: day four of The Odyssey event at MIT in blog form.
I went geocaching for the first time today. It turned out to be a lot of fun too. Luke and I ran all over the MIT campus hunting down waypoints where we would take a picture and usually find a letter in the surroundings; we unscrambled the letters later to form a word which turned out to be “eureka”. It took us about three hours to hit all nine waypoints. We probably could have finished faster if we had a more reliable GPS unit. Here’s a groovy collage of the photos we took at each of the nine waypoints. You can’t see me in the very last one, but I’m standing between the two middle pillars.
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Posted on July 1, 2007 in Life
I didn’t get a chance to finish my post on day 3 on that day since we were up pretty late doing stuff. So here it is now. 
Today was the first day of the showcase where all the teams showed off their inventions they’ve been working on for the past eight months. All of the teams’ inventions were pretty cool and some of them were incredible like the solar surveyor that uses a camera to take pictures of its surroundings and processes the image to identify obstructions in addition to locating the direction of the sun. There was also an invention for quardapelgics to turn on lights and other appliances by shining a laser attached to the user’s head at a sensor. Here’s our invention, the Smart Watering-Irrigation System, or SWIS. It’s a automatic plant watering device that waters plants based on the moisture content of the soil.
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Posted on June 22, 2007 in Life
Today was much more active I have to say. We walked along The Freedom Trail which winds through Boston past notable and historic landmarks. It was pretty interesting I guess. We went through a graveyard where Paul Revere is buried, one where Ben Franklin’s parents are buried, and yet another one where apparently the first woman to step off the Mayflower is buried although we never found her tombstone. We also took a ferry around the wharf. Here’s a picture of Boston I took from the ferry.
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Posted on June 20, 2007 in Life
The flight from Portland to Chicago was killer. I had Warcraft III to hold me over for the first hour or two but my laptop battery died and I had to suffer through the rest of the flight. What was really stupid is that the pilot missed the runway (that 4000 ft long strip of concrete that’s so hard to see) and we had to waste another thirty minutes circling back for another attempt. When we reached O’Hare International Airport we ate lunch and then hopped on another plane to Boston. The flight back is going to be even worse: Boston to San Francisco to Portland. The entire team is here though, safe and sound.
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Posted on June 18, 2007 in Life
