Archive for January, 2007
President Packer talks at BYU
Posted in Religionon Jan 16, 2007
President Packer of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles spoke at BYU today at the weekly devotional. Below are some of my notes from his talk: Read the rest of this entry »
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Kind of a dull day
Posted in Lifeon Jan 15, 2007
Today was a day off of classes at BYU. I did a lot of little things to celebrate. I had a group meeting for my senior project team. I cleaned up my room a bit. I went to work and got the spring research submission page online. I ate pretzels. I wrote in a few of my blogs. I finally put in a stupid patch to get LDSsearch.com working on Sunday’s without me having to intervene. I fixed up my blogs so that they are once again showing the correct header. I dropped a tape recorder by a friends house show she can take audio notes in class instead of trying to write with her injured arm. I did some work on the ward calendar as part of my new calling as ward publicity specialist. I pondered a few things. Soon I’ll go to FHE. Hopefully I can also do a few more things by the end of the day.
Getting Isaiah’s autograph
Posted in Religionon Jan 15, 2007
A couple of weeks ago, my family and I visited Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah. One of the things we visited was the North Visitor’s Center. The basement of the visitor’s center features displays about various biblical and latter-day prophets. Their displays are pretty good. Below you will see a photo of me and a display about Isaiah. I was trying to get Isaiah to sign an autograph book, but he just wasn’t interested in moving.
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BYU is entering the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. Last Thursday we finally got our car. It is a 2005 Dodge Caravan: blue. We are very thankful to all of the sponsors who are helping us get started. We are calling the car Y Not.
I am on the control team for BYU’s car. Specifically, I’m working on the software that takes waypoints and communicates them to the car driving system. Eventually we will connect the AI which would allow the car to be completely driven by computers.
Be sure to check out pictures of the car.
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First of all, I just want to say that it is not fun to try and use one of the computer touch pad thingies to control a mouse when you have bandaids on your finger tips.
I cut two of my most favorite fingers today picking up a board at Home Depot which will become part of my new kitchen shelves.
Sometimes I really question my own maturity. Maybe I don’t even know what maturity means. I think part of it is having enough live experience to be in control of your own responses to situations instead of completely reacting with emotion or with ignorance.
Triangular chocolate is one of my favorite friends.
One of the things that I’ve been thinking about is belonging. What does it mean to belong, and why do we seek it?
The Miller Effect
Posted in Technicalon Jan 13, 2007
In my electrical engineering class we are learning about the Miller effect. Someone in the class shared a web page which is suppose to be helpful in understanding the principle.
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