Saturday, November 27, 2004
Sunday, September 12, 2004
Arrrg! Rush is over and school has started. As a dorm, we did so much stuff for rush; built a roller coaster, 3-axis trainer, colosseum, tour guide cage, giant whack a mole, spinning seesaw, giant twister, huge hanging Jacob's ladder (double hinged toy - not electric toy), b a h4xor povec led solder kits which say 'east campus', 160lb concrete ECs throughout campus as 'art', motorized sofa, giant operation board game, giant hamster wheel, a chariot, 12' tall monkey bars, and a rock climbing wall with a slide on the other end. Pictures GALORE
Wednesday, August 18, 2004
There were a couple of articles about the raft project that I was a part of, here is one: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2004/raft.html
Today we took President Chuck Vest out on it at nearly the crack of dawn and sailed around for a bit.
I've been continually cleaning my room, but somehow it gets more and more disorganized - ah!
Kabir finished the 3-axis trainer, and it's sweet - still deadly though, so we'll still have to fix a few things
Today we took President Chuck Vest out on it at nearly the crack of dawn and sailed around for a bit.
I've been continually cleaning my room, but somehow it gets more and more disorganized - ah!
Kabir finished the 3-axis trainer, and it's sweet - still deadly though, so we'll still have to fix a few things
Wednesday, July 28, 2004
Helicopters and policemen - that pretty much sums up Boston right now. LOTS of helicopters - big helicopters - small helicopters - loud helicopters. Continuous vigilance for the DNC. I finally finished the speakers from the IAP speaker-building class - they sound great and I'm happy. I'm sick now though, so that sucks. I built this big rectangular box in the back of my room about 4 feet square and 7 feet tall with plywood and 2x4s, and I don't know why I made it, maybe I'll make it part of a loft.
Thursday, July 15, 2004
PICTURES!
So, I've been working this summer at the common sense group at the media lab (the people who run openmind) programing a visualization in Flash for some of the links which they have come up with. When I'm done with this I'll totally be able to make flash games - ya!
Some other stuff I've been up to:
Learning how to:
kiteboard
play squash
Building:
an eccentric (out of true) wheel (to power a scooter by jumping up and down)
a raft - for the 4th - it was fun:

it sank:
Oh ya, and I drove across the country a month ago
So, I've been working this summer at the common sense group at the media lab (the people who run openmind) programing a visualization in Flash for some of the links which they have come up with. When I'm done with this I'll totally be able to make flash games - ya!
Some other stuff I've been up to:
Learning how to:
kiteboard
play squash
Building:
an eccentric (out of true) wheel (to power a scooter by jumping up and down)
a raft - for the 4th - it was fun:

it sank:

Oh ya, and I drove across the country a month ago
Thursday, May 27, 2004
I'm back home now - here are some pictures from last term. In a couple of weeks I'll drive back to Boston with my dad who will bike down the Atlantic coast, then drive back when summer is done with Ankur Vikash and Smark - only to drive back once again in Smark's car. I went and visited my high school today and talked to a bunch of kids and teachers - Coleman says Toocomm needs to buy an electric winch - I think that's a good idea.
Monday, May 03, 2004
so, the power went out at MIT today - kinda funny since MIT has its own power plant and all. I'm going to Deer Island tomorrow, the city of boston's sewage treatment plant. I think it will be exciting. I have a few new pictures and I will add them here as time allows. we almost got a 22 foot sail boat, but I don't think we did. that is all for now, I will add to this message later
Monday, April 19, 2004
Sunday, March 21, 2004
check out my dorm's video of this year: East Campus I3 Video 2004 You might need to install DivX (the free codec) Here is the I3 webpage The ant farm exploded and got dirt and ants all over my room. I'm back at home now for spring break - it's warm - ya!
Wednesday, March 03, 2004
So, I now have a 10 foot long ant farm in my room - and the ants are digging away. It has been 4 days now and they've dug around two feet down. I've been feeding them sugar water and jam, although I should probably find some real fruit and throw that in too. My desk and bed are now under a canopy to protect against the dust from the holes that I'm trying to drill in the ceiling. I'm trying to mount the giant projector there. The dust got past the sheets, however and the last two days I have been sleeping on the floor. I got a really cool air 1/3HP air pump from reuse yesterday which has been the object of much time wasting recently. I'm trying, successfully albeit painfully slowly, to install Athena (the MIT computer station OS) onto my computer in Virtual PC. My motivation for schoolwork has recently has dropped due to all the cool stuff that I'm working on now (ant farm, air pump, projector, athena, building chairs, etc...). I had a Bio test today that I rocked - I only went to lecture the first week for the class. I really should have taken the AP test and tried to pass out. My speakers from the speaker building class in IAP are still in the woodshop - I have to go finish them up sometime. I'm going to race Damon after spring break to cape cod on a bike. I biked for 4 hours a day for 4 days straight before I got overwhelmed with schoolwork. I need to start something up again like that - soon. Bill Gates gave a talk here a week ago - pretty interesting to see him for real. Also, Darryl Hammond and Colin Quinn (SNL) did a stand-up show, which was great. Colin Quinn yells too much. I put Danny's hair up into a mohawk and cut out some letters which got into The Tech:
Wednesday, February 04, 2004
Bavetta.com is falling in ratings! I'm now number two in a search for bavetta! here are some more pictures from IAP. I switched rooms to a much more spacious luxury room down the hall, closer to the kitchen, so I smell cookies down the hallway right now. Glassblowing was cool,
I made a few paperweights, a few glasses, and a slug/glass/blob thing. Welding was cool, the instructor Toby says that there will continue to be sessions for which we can come in and weld things from now on - cool. My speakers from speakerbuilding are not done - I have to get my lazy butt to the hobby shop to finish them up. check out the pictures. I built a workbench
My classes now are officially:
7.013 - Bio
8.022 - Advanced E&M
18.02 - Multi Var Calc
18.03 - Diffy Eq
Hopefully I'll post updates more often from now on out.....
Monday, January 12, 2004
It snowed mad amounts of snow while I was home over break. My plane back to Boston was delayed more than 1 and a half hours due to problems with getting someone to drive the fuel truck to the plane, but I managed to still get on my connection. IAP has been great so far; I'm taking welding, glassblowing and speaker building classes. We built a halfpipe for bad ideas, but had some problems with the joint between the two quarter pipes holding, so we mainly rode it as a quarter pipe. Here are some pictures Some other people made a pulse jet engine, an asskicking machine, and a curling rink. Danny and I won the ultimate culring championship trophy in quadruple overtime.
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