Here’s a hilarious video that shows two guys, Chris and Mike, eating Pork Brains in Milk Gravy. You’ll be surprised by what color it is! (Be prepared for some nauseating fun!) I knew this stuff was out there, and it’s a popular delicacy is some quarters of St. Louis. Watch at your own risk.

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Hello from San Jose! I’m here at Bill’s Cafe off of Willow Street. It’s a beautiful morning, and apparently, this is a very popular spot to get breakfast. Even at 9:20 on a Thursday morning, there is a brisk business. The crowd is really cool. Mostly, Latino waiters with a mix of white and Latino customers. The Latinas next to me are hilarious: they go from a Californian accent to Spanish very quickly. When they talk peronal stuff, they speak in a quiet Spanish, otherwise, it’s that funny Californian English.

Today, I hope to go to the Tech and maybe the San Jose Children’s Museum.

I’m at the Science Museum of Minnesota! It’s fantastic museum and I’m enjoying the workshop! Here is the veiw from our meeting room. It overlooks the Mississippi. It’s so small it’s cute!

Chicken Pad Roum Mit!! Awesome dish from Sala Thai in Belleville!

In the next two months, I’ll find myself in several places: Minneapolis and San Francisco/San Jose.

I’ll be in Minneapolis for business: the NISE Network (a group funded by a grant by the National Science Foundation) invited two representatives from the Science Center. It’s a workshop for informal science educators in conjunction with research scientists. We’ll discuss new developments in nanotech and share our incites on educating the public. There’s a vast array of techniques/tools to educate the public, but nanotechnology has some unique challenges that many mainstream science topics don’t suffer from. Things at the nanoscale are so small, it defies our perception and goes against much of what we normally take for granted at a normal scale. I also hear that Minneapolis is beautiful this time of year! It should be a blistering 80 degrees!! Ha!

Next month, I’m going to San Francisco/San Jose to visit my friend, Christina. I met her through FIRST Robotics, and we’ve been good friends since. I hope to explore San Fran during the weekdays and Napa Valley on the weekend! I also want to check out The Tech in San Jose. As a technology informal educator, the Tech serves almost as a pilgrimage of sorts because it’s a museum dedicated to technology. Also, it really helps that I got a dirt cheap ticket to San Jose. Here’s some advice: travel on Tuesday or Wednesday! Round trip was on $250 on Southwest!! Sweet!

Here I am last weekend at an 80’s Party.  I spent the day watching 80’s movies, and I was torn between Robert Downey Jr from Weird Science or Marty McFly/Michael J Fox from Back to the Future.  So, I went shopping that day, and what’s really sad:  I only needed to buy shoes as I already had the other clothes lined up.  Actually, that’s not true:  I lacked the suspenders for the Marty McFly outfit.  But, what really put the nail in the coffin of the McFly outfit was the fact that a pair of Chucks (you know, those canvas high tops) were $40 and a pair of decent loafers were $10.  Weird Science wins!  Actually, I thought it turned out rather well.  Here are the results:

I think this comparison between my outfit and Robert's character is pretty tight. I obviously forgot to roll up my sleeves...

I think I pulled it off! I want to give a shout out to Sarah for inviting me. A big “Happy Birthday” to Maggie, and a “Thank You” to Lori for hosting the party!

Just upgraded my Wordpress installation (i.e., my webpage’s content management system) to 2.6!  Everything seems to be going smoothly, and I hope there’s no bugs hiding in the corners of the code!  The user interface from the administrator’s point of view seems to be a bit sharper!

Also, check out my flickr.com website because I’ve added more photos to it!  I added some pictures from the Foo Fighter’s concert, the 80’s party I attended yesterday, and more photos from Maryland!

Well, the iPhone application store is in full effect right now! I’ve downloaded useless programs for my phone like the Lightsaber app and the “More Cowbell” app. I’ve also installed useful apps like a “To Do” list, iTunes Remote, Facebook’s app, “Twinkle” for Twitter, “Jott” for voice reminders, and “Shazam” for identifying music. Right now, I’m using the Wordpress app to write this blog post on my iPhone! It’s pretty easy so far. I’m seeing if I van post pictures with it…it should be interesting!

But, this video just rocks!  Unfortunately, I can’t embed it into my website because YouTube/Radiohead doesn’t allow it with this video.  You can find the video here.  http://code.google.com/creative/radiohead/

Correction:  Here’s the video!

I like the song.  It’s rather haunting and very poetic.  But I’m really fascinated by how they made it:  using short and long range lasers.  No other form of light or traditional video cameras were used!  A computer reads in the data from the lasers (in this case, distance data) and translates it into a 3D form:  aka data visualization.  What’s even cooler,  Google and Radiohead have a basic application that lets you play with the 3D visualization while the song is playing!  http://code.google.com/creative/radiohead/viewer.html I really recommend it to everyone (well, those who have high speed internet)!!

I was browsing Newegg the other day, and as usual, I looked over the daily specials.  Unlike most times I go to Newegg, this weekend, as with other businesses, the Independance Day Weekend Sale was in full force.  I’ve been wanting to create a fast local network with some nice wall brackets/plugs.  Currently, I already have a decent wireless/wired network, but it’s very sloppy and slow (wires are strewn on the floor, and even traipse several stories down stairs).  Lo and behold, Newegg had a sweet deal on an 8 port gigabit, D-Link switch ($41!).  So my plan is to find some network cable, wall brackets, and some network tools and build a sweet network!  I’m planning on two ports upstairs, two downstairs, and two in the basement.  The last two ports will go to the wireless router and a Network Attached Storage.  A what?  It’s a standalone device that soley serves as a place for Doug and I to backup our files and keep media files that every computer on the network can access.  A fast network is absolutely necessary for this!  The big problem will be laying the network cable.  I have several options available me:  keep stringing the cable along the floor hoping no one trips over it, I can have it go outside then back into the rooms I want to wire, or go up into the attic then down into the walls.  I think the last one is the most viable and will look professional becase the cables will be out of sight.  However, this is the attic we’re talking about, and I’ll have to start this project early in the morning when it’s relatively cool.  Well, I’ll update everyone when I start working on this!