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There is a girl next to me,

Here at the library.
I do not if she is one.

She could be a guy or a girl.
She could be twenty or one.
I simply do not know.

I stay up late a lot, but nothing productive ever takes place. Last week (at 2am) I discovered that Hershey Kisses and Reese’s Pieces make great items to visualize ‘things’.

Just now one of my roommates told me: “Yo, porn is great even if you do have a wife. Hell when I have a wife, porn will still be good!”

PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT: This does not reflect my thoughts on porn.

Today I can proudly say that I wrote my name at least 40 times (plus addresses and what not). I actually have a bubble on one of my fingers.

So I went down to my advisor’s hobbit hole, since not only is it underground without any windows and full of trash (I mean valuable outdated things from computer science), but he looks like one, yes a real living hobbit. All he really needs is a pipe. So after an hour of conversing (at a rate of at most 10 words an hour, that’s with every other word being repeated at least twice) we got to the nasty subject that he, yes my advisor, has to fill out transfer forms. I can’t believe I am the first to ask, but he sure seemed lost. He took things way to literally, like thinking that because it said ‘Dean’ or ‘Counselor’ it didn’t mean him. He managed to divert almost all of the forms because ‘they weren’t meant to be filled out by him’. So… I called every school and asked about it, and they told me he was the man to do it. I don’t think he thought I would conclude that in under 10 minutes. Maybe I should bake him cookies to show my appreciation, because I would hate to have that job just as much as he is probably hating it.
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Maybe God does exist after all for I have been permitted to declare my Major despite having a fraction of the credits that I should have in order to do so. So what does this mean? Well, first of all, I get an actual advisor from the Computer Science department and one from the Philosophy department (since I’m double majoring one being a combined BS/MA degree) to guide me through the selection of courses. Another extra gift is that I will actually have two extra professors to give me letters of recommendation this spring when I will make my first attempt to transfer to a better school. Usually, at SUNY A., you have to be at least a Junior to declare a major, I’m a Freshmen.

All of this does make me think if it would be wise to transfer after all. In 4 years I could graduate with one major and a masters at the ripe age of 22. No other school, I think, could offer such an opportunity. And despite this school being at the lowest ranking in US schools, I will still have a damn good transcript at the end. So, who knows, maybe staying would be the wiser decision after all.

One of the best things about college are the open houses. Not only do they give you free coffee but we, the Chamber Singers, also get to sing as a form of fund raiser ($150 for 15min of singing is pretty sweet). The only issue with this sort of singing is the time, 9am. Sure, I wake up at 9 but, would you wake up 9 if you were drunk? Needless to say 90% of the choir was dealing with some serious hangovers from Friday night’s partying. (You could smell it in the air) I must say I never laughed so much in my life at seeing people trying to sing while under the influence. How can you not laugh when the person next to you starts leaning on you.

After a very long cup of coffee this morning, an eureka moment took place. The full description of the problem and solution I’m still writting because it is rather tricky to explain. But the turning point was when I remembered that old Physics unit on lenses. Suppose you have an object from a picture with coordinates (x,y), how do you know how much to pan and tilt your head to face the object. The key here is that you are going from a 2D coordinate system to a 3D one in a sense.

Now if I can only finish understanding Optics and Lasers by this weekend, I’ll be set.

Have you ever wandered why cars in the 21st century are sill unable to drive by themselves? Or why pilots are still needed to land airplanes? Or why train conductors still exist? One of the reasons is due to the fact that no method has yet been found to detect objects accurately and in a timely fashion. It doesn’t help if the car detects a kid crossing the street 2 minutes later, because by that time the kid will have become road kill.

My project attempts to solve this problem by combining information from two different sensors; an Infra-red sensor (which is very precise but slow in acquiring data) and a set of color images (which is far from accurate). Objects will than be identified from the Infra-red sensor and the images separately and then merged together to more clearly identify objects in a given environment. The goal is that by merging objects from two different sources the precision will be far greater than any current single sensor algorithm.
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The smell of the suit was overwhelming. The part had to be intense because I have never smelled alcohol and the results of it soo much. I opened every window so now the smell is starting to fade. But they didn’t do a good cleaning up because the funnel was still in the bathroom.

PS: None have been kicked out yet, unfortunately.

The end is coming. One of my biggest friends today had to show his room to two police officers. He is done, he is gone. He will most likely be suspended for a year if not expelled. Not to mention that he also faces judicial problems. Done, I just saw in a span of 2 weeks a kid with a full future get completely destroyed by Life.