Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Jay Oh Bee

Well, I gots me a new jeorb today. I thought to myself, what kind of a job around here can I get that would be more applicable to my major and would be interesting that I could possibly get part time? Working on the vintage trains of the Grand Canyon Railroad. Wouldn't you know it, they were looking for an electrical type with experience with control and indicating systems.

I'm pretty darn excited to be working in their locomotive shop once finals are done instead of sitting around campus getting paid eight buck an hour to do nothing but rewind tapes......

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

WTF

This is just too friggin funny....

Friday, October 13, 2006

School

Well, I finally went and did it, Igot involved in an engineering project, and not just any project either, SAE Supermileage NAU has never competed in this competition before so this year has a brand new team and a brand new design. Now all we have to do is get some money together to get us to Michigan in June!

Monday, September 25, 2006

School

So, now that the waiting to move and carry on with our lives is over,what do we do now? What's the next step? I've been feeling a little unsettled lately I think because I don't know exactly what that next step is. I know I want my master's degree and that I want to go to Grad School but, I also want to eat. I am currently an Astrophysics major, they dont' have an Astrophysics masters program here, I think I can actualy get my bachellor's done in two years. Do I stay here and get a masters either in Physics education or applied physics and go on to grad work wherever I can manage to get accepted? Or, do I skip town once I have my bachelor's degree and get my masters in something a little more up my alley and inline with what I want to do. I would rather put together a master's thesis on cosmology or theoretical physics rather than how to teach retarded high school students something most of them dont' want to bother with. Does it really matter what my bachelor's or masters is in to be able to get my PhD in Astrophysics?

I thought about speaking with my Astrophysics professor, and maybe I still wil but, I jsut feel like I'm in the way, like I'm just bothering these people who don't know me and may not have a vested interest in me as a student....I guess I could talk to my academic advosor as well but, I still feel aprehensive about the whole thing. I guess in a way I still feel like I'm back at JCC where they just want to get you through and into a job at the end and not necessarily give you a broader understanding of not only the world around you but, yourself as well. That and I feel that my acedemic advisor would push for the physics education masters because, that's what he's all about and he's trying to recruit anybody even remotely interested in the program.........

Saturday, September 16, 2006

Kewl

I ran across this site today looking for some information on a book my calc teacher had mentioned in class the other day. The notes I have are Cantor ( a methematician that went insane contemplating the infinite. The title of the book that I was given was "The search for the Aleph" and was supposed to be a story of Cantor's life and work but, alas, I seem to have come up empty handed. I did find a title by one of my favorite authors Amir D. Aczel titled, "The Mystery of the ALEPH" but, can't find that at my campus library either wich surprises me becasue the library at NAU is riggin HUGE....

Monday, September 11, 2006

Star Wars

Friday, September 08, 2006

Transportation, Check

Well, I finally gave up on getting a kick-ass chopper bike and decided to just go to wally-world and get a cheap-ass mountain bike. Something that would give me some good ol transportation back and forth to classes. Well, lo and behold, there sat a fresh new wicked green Schwinn Stingray. I was totally amazed. I oh so carefully got it off the rack and set it on the floor, still sure that it would just be way too small. It wasn't. I even asked my dear wife the untimate litmus question, "do I look stupid?" her answer was no so, as we speak it sits lovingly locked to the bike rack just outside my window, I haven't even ridden it yet with the exception of the four feet in wally-world. The best part, I only paid $79 for it, not $179 but, just $79. My dear wife even asked if the price was correct at the register after it rang up for a bit less than expected. The cashier checked it out and said, "yup, it rings up as $79.00". Sweet...