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: