another blog post

here are some more entertaining photos to excite you.

as the last post suggested, eli and i went to new york to do some touring.  we also went to philadelphia with pammi.  here are some pics of what we saw.

this is the famous living wall at the comcast center in philly.  this is what it looks like normally.

this is what it looks like on drugs.

ocassionally it has people dancing inside of it.  the first time i saw one i thought someone had a bad day and was gonna end it all by jumping.

eli, chris, and i also went to the franklin institute, which is the philadelphia equivalent of the museum of science and industry.

here’s eli having fun in the cockpit of a used bomber.

here’s chris in the same plane, upset that his parents took him to see a psychiatrist (dr. sallywaxler).

after some of us went to see the dark knight, we had some dessert at the nearby champps.

this is an ice cream cake that was supposedly a mile high.  three of us couldn’t finish.  it was really really really good.

to be continued…

more photos!

hi.  here’s more photos of things that happened this summer.  after i went to philadelphia, me and eli went to new york, as the previous post mentioned.  here’s a brief overview of what we did there.

this is the abercrombie store in new york.  it had a line of people that wrapped around the building, and two pretty boy bouncers.  hilarious.

here’s batman at the toys r us in ny.  it was a couple of weeks before the dark knight actually came out to theaters.

here’s the batmobile.  it wasn’t full size, but a scale model.

and here’s eddie murphy along with some girl who got in the middle of my picture.  this is in times square, where they were hopelessly trying to advertise his film Meet Dave, which i’m sure broke box office records everywhere.

but wait, there’s more…

still in chicago

hi everyone.  for all those who’ve been waiting patiently by my blog, here’s a few more pictures:

this is in philadelphia.  it was free so i did it.  i learned nothing.  the people who say it’s a lot smaller than you expect are right, but looking back, i think i was expecting something ridiculously humongous.

this is eli.  we rode the chinatown bus to new york.  he’s from texas, and it was his first time to the east coast (basically).

more to come…

back home in new jersey

here’s that guy cheezy who i work with.  i’m not sure how you spell his name.  apparently he was spanked on i love new york 2.  one thing is for sure, though: he is, without a doubt or hyperbole, a better person than the 12 greatest people in the world combined.  as this is a recursive description, he is infinitely great.  i love working next to him and not getting beaten up by him for posting drunken pictures of him on the internet.  love, osha.

this is when i realized he was drunk.

this is after i told him that i may or may not have friends who know who he is.

and that’s it!  i may visit chris greene in new york again this week.  we’re planning on freestyle parcoursing/free running across the ny skyline.  don’t be surprised if you see us jumping off rooftops, diving off bridges, or ricocheting within stairwells.  pictures from the hospital next week…

back home in illinois

hey everyone.  i’ve got a few pictures of illinois from when i went downtown to cheesecake factory.  basically my sister hasn’t seen her friends mimi or monica in a long time, so they decided to meet in chicago as there are more things to do there.  i asked to be dragged along, and it’s a good thing i did, because we ended up going to target where i bought some new incredibly cheap headphones to replace the incredibly cheap headphones that broke recently.

here’s the chicago skyline from the target parking lot.

we then went over to the cheesecake factory under the hancock building, where we had to avoid falling ice and incredible crowds.  i saw lots of abercrombie clothes.  i saw some hollister clothing, which seem to be carbon copies, or at least in the same spirit (of paying lots of money for no reason).  the day you show me an abercrombie boy/girl who’s not a self-centered dick/airhead is the day i eat my words.  literally.

here’s the pretty looking hancock tree:

and that’s pretty much it.  here are my dad and sister sitting in our kitchen.

sorry about all the lighting issues.  i think i’m good at centering objects of focus, but bad at dealing with lighting.

anyway, next time i’ll post pictures of my office’s christmas party and the guy from i love new york 2, cheezy, who i happened to work with.

end of semester fun

here are some pictures of me and my group members after we presented our cognitive radio project to our professor.  as can be surmised from the picture, we did well.

this is me acting stupid and wearing the same thing that i always wear.

here’s the same picture, but with me replaced with the guy that took the last picture.

of course this picture turned out much better since i took it.

don’t worry, pictures of party on saturday.  i promise.

personal productivity

hello everyone.

i don’t really have much to say in this post, other than to recommend the following web sites for personal productivity:

lifehacker (http://lifehacker.com) is usually pretty interesting, although sometimes they post just to post (with articles like “What’s In Your Pocket Right Now?”).

43folders (http://www.43folders.com) is run by merlin mann, who seems like a reasonably fun guy. he posts intermittently, and seems also to be running out of content, but there are a few gems, like adventures in $40 glasses (http://www.43folders.com/2007/11/29/adventures-40-eyeglasses), and more.

anyway, i also seem to be running out of content. soon i’ll be scanning in images of my train tickets to metuchen. although, there is a party on friday…

here’s some random kid

this is some kid. i don’t know who he is, or why it matters, but one thing is certainly true.

my favorite part of the picture is that it looks like the cigarette guy in the background is starting to light chris’ head on fire–and that chris loves it. i also think it’s pretty cool that he learned how to ride that moped. soon it’ll be vespa’s since he’s going to italy.

then for a long time nothing happens…

here are some highlights of the past few weeks:

• got a part time job and am currently working at iqresearch.

• turned down research position to create er “smart rooms” that use computer vision, voice recognition, rfid tags, and sensor networks to decide where a particular patient should be sent. i turned it down for a lot of reasons, but mainly because it sounded kind of hokey. who would trust a room with currently unreliable technology to send them to their possible doom? you might as well listen to the scientologists and surround yourself with bananas to get better.

• worked on a cognitive radio project with some team members, lavesh and naveen. here are their pictures:

naveen is on the left, lavesh is on the right. they were very confused as to why i was taking their picture. that’s also my dr. pepper on the table.

for those who are interested, cognitive radios deal with the problem of traffic on the radio spectrum. using software, radios will be able to dynamically adjust their frequencies to not interfere with other rf devices.

• and here are some more pictures that i found on my phone, which i can now send text messages with (yes!).

2007 summer barbeque. the food was excellent.

2007 birthday meal prepared by amber and kara to prove their sweetness.

flim

by the way, i’m still working on flim. it’s nothing special, but if you’d like to take a look, select the following link: http://eden.rutgers.edu/~ofuangka. now accepting comments.