The image to the right (click on it for more related images) is an example of the research work I’m doing this summer. It involves image processing using “wedgelets” — squares that have a line dividing it into two regions, each with a different intensity value. By combining a variety of different line orientations within [...]

I’m trying to pick my jaw up off the floor right now… Friend and former high-school buddy of mine Craig Braun, who is graduating from U of M Chemistry this May, is headed to Harvard for a M.Sc/Ph.D in Chemical Biology. All on Harvard’s dime. It sounds like it works out to about $300k US [...]

So, the Engineering Year-end Formal/Grad last night, and it was a fantastic time. Showing off the Stick of Office was lots of fun. I had to speak, and while I don’t think my speech was all that amazing, I found a good quote for it, an excerpt of which is given below: George Bernard Shaw [...]

I’ve not blogged in a while, so I figured my poor blog deserves an update just when I need to be studying the most. Go figure. Here are a few (in the words of Bob McLeod) “short snappers” about what’s going on with me right now: First off, I’ve been elected as the new Senior [...]

// START SHAMELESS PROMOTION Come one and all to UMES’ upcoming social, The Big One: Urban Sprawl, on Saturday night (Jan. 28). We’re turning the WAG into an urban wonderland, complete with a good and bad side of the tracks. Feeling upscale? Stay on the good side of the tracks with the Posh Café and [...]

As I sit here writing this in the hallway of Windsor’s Radisson Riverfront hotel at 3am EST, with Britney Spears’ Oops!…I Did It Again playing very very quietly as muzak on the hotel’s PA system, Bernard Dione wandered out of his room to see what I was up to and remark on what a nice [...]

"How do you measure, measure a year?" It’s kind of funny how your perspective of time changes according to what’s happening in your life. Come exam time, you (or at least I do) tend to measure the days in terms of time left to study. It’s not early Sunday morning right now — it’s 3 [...]

After two other classic blog entries with this title, I figured I had to keep up tradition. I’m now the proud owner of a 2006 Toyota Yaris RS in “Absolutely Red”. And let me tell you, this car is an absolute blast to drive. Notable features: manual transmission, great gas mileage and emissions, really well [...]