crazy: gerbils are go!

One of the reasons the weekly DS smoke sessions are great: Xianzhi doesn't lose it when I say something like, "All right, if one of the problems with the melting polar ice caps is that the planet reflects less heat, and then they melt some more, why don't we just install a bunch of mirrors at the polar ice caps?"

His reply: "You could probably have a bunch of mirrors orbiting the planet, and reflect the light to fields of solar cells. Boom! Cheap energy, and no more hydrocarbons."

Side note: why not hook a peltier cooler up to the CPU, but reversed? Instead of taking electricity to remove heat, take the heat and generate electricity. Have a massive heatsink on top of the peltier, and use the electricity to power the fan. Maybe even a battery to start up the fan initially, and have the peltier charge the battery.

Side note 2: Kat read the draft of the crypto paper (even after arriving home several hours late), and it made sense with some explaining. At this point, it's referenced, not written on scraps of paper and Starbucks bags, so it's losing a little of its mad scientist appeal.

Kat and Xianzhi, here's to you!

miscellany: Death by overthinking.

That should be procrastination through overthinking. Spending a lot of time reading papers instead of writing what should be a really short, low intensity paper.

On the nice side, I ordered about half of my textbooks for less than a hundred dollars, shipping included.

Will be doing some more textbook shopping in a few weeks, methinks.

miscellany: Procrastinating.

Finished up Marketing Principles, and the first few lessons from Business Communications. Haven't done anything on the research paper today, since it's a bit difficult to conduct any research without having a net-connected computer downstairs.

Get to start off May with 3 credits already. First class for the MS starts May 30. Have to pick up the textbook.

So. Marketing and Business Comm. Time to sleep, then back to the research later. Ha ha ha.