osha's massively multiplayer experiences
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.
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.
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.
hello. i have decided to reactivate my facebook account, because i miss the shred of pseudo-social interaction. nothing has happened during hiatus, although i’ve had job offers, job interviews, and actually tried out speed dating. we’re fine, we’re all fine here now, thank you. how are you?
so if you’ve been wondering, i deactivated my facebook account. it might be temporary, but right now i feel better not having it. if any of you would like to chat with me, i’m on gmail pretty constantly at secret.osha@gmail.com. i’d love to hear from you.
This is the last roommate. No comment.
so rutgers has some fun free stuff. i got free customized dog tags, and they also giving out free customized shorts, road signs, airbrushed tattoos, and other things. my dog tags say:
“OSHA FUANGKASAE
HE ATE THE WHOLE THING”
but it’s hard to tell since i couldn’t find a good angle to take the picture at. Also, the US marines were recruiting and giving out free things to people who could do pull ups, and i got the second level prize by doing 12. nothing special, i know, but the guy before me couldn’t do one, so i think i wowed the marines people. by the end they were begging me to join the us armed forces. “osha, please. we need people like you, who can do more than 11 pull ups!” in conclusion, i joined the marines, and i’ll be shipping out tomorrow. j/k!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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here’s one picture. no roommates yet, but i guess i’ll just take a picture of them now.
i asked them if i could take a picture for no particular reason. they were compliant. that’s the way i likes ‘em.
this is reid. he likes long walks on the beach and hopes to be a gas station manager once he gets his phd in computer science. he says he’s canadian, and he’s got the flag to back it up, so i guess he’s not lying. if you’ll notice, there are 3 things wrong with this picture. can you guess them all?
1. reid is computer generated.
2. the flag is not american.
3. the picture is poorly taken.
this is andy at a rare moment when he’s playing world of warcraft. after i took his picture, he asked me what it was for, to which i replied “my law blog.” he then asked if i was planning on referring to him and reid as my lame roommates. i said no, but i was lying. these are my lame roommates. my lame computer generated roommates.
and then there’s herin, who isn’t around this weekend for some reason. however, he brought us a recliner, which i’ll take a picture of next time, since i just took some cold medicne whichd is fnokncoing me out……………………………
the title is misleading, i know, since i really didn’t learn how to stop worrying and i don’t love new jersey. now now, don’t immediately jump to the conclusion that omigod osha hates new jersey or even that osha dislikes new jersey. i *like* new jersey, but i certainly would not marry the city.
in any case, here’s some pictures!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! of princeton, where i most certainly do not live.
just as a foreward, princeton is about 20 minutes == $5 in train tickets southwest of where i live. i met up with christine yang (graduate student in chemistry from uc-berkeley), we walked around the beautiful campus amid the bustle caused by the annual “jazz feast” and headed towards carnegie lake. on the way back, we ended up stumbling on a ‘09 orientation for undergraduates where we posed as such and got free hamburgers, hot dogs, sodas, iced cream, and sunglasses. unfortunately, i threw away my sunglasses, as they were cramping my style.
i believe that this is the entrance to some undergraduate dorms. it’s the first picture i took, and i’m pretty sure my mindset was “oh shit, i better take some pictures right away in case there’s nothing more interesting here.”
this is another entrance to undergraduate dorms. i ended up walking into the abyss that’s that gateway, and that’s where we ended up getting free food, albeit on the way back.
so i kept asking christine whether or not buildings on campus were churches, and she kept telling me “probably not” and that princeton just really likes stained glass windows. so i guess this isn’t a church. who knows what it is. the outhouse? possibly.
when we got free food, various activities were set up for undergraduates to mess around with. this climbing cylinder was one of them, and i was impressed. what’s nice about this picture is that there’s a guy right next to it, so you can infer what the scale of the thing was. unless he’s some kind of midget or ridiculously tall guy. or unless the perspective is weird and he’s actually 3 miles away.
so the conclusion is, christine is one lucky cookie.
i went to visit new york. we walked around for a few hours, then saw death sentence starring kevin bacon. my ideal evening. here are some pictures:
• seaport view of brooklyn bridge
lots of lawn chair types so you can sit and relax. also those lame 50 cent telescope contraptions to look at ellis island, which is in the opposite direction. i got a picture of the statue of liberty, but it’s so tiny in the picture that i accidentally deleted it, thinking the picture was useless. shoulda used those gadgets.
here’s a water taxi. this is close to where we heard the worst band in the world play. for some reason though, so many people were coming to listen to them. we were trying to get out of the listening range, and we had to dodge all these punksters.
• rockefeller center
here’s a few jerks who got in the way of my picture of the fountain in rockefeller plaza. it’s prettier without the jerks.
• toys ‘r us
here’s big toys ‘r us. new york lives in the past where jurassic park is still popular.
superman. soon to be replaced by batman once everyone realizes that he can kick superman’s ass.
• times square
on a times square island, there’s the recruiting station for the us armed forces. this is where we saw the crazy person who was making bird calls.
chris told me that they have these things because the street may explode without them. i believe it.
this is times square. the yahoo! sign looks oddly out of place. the style makes it seem like yahoo! should be est. 1952.
all in all, a very positive experience. just make sure you go with people who know what they’re doing, so you don’t have to think, you can just take in the sights. also, you need to focus on dodging people, not reading maps or street signs.
i wish i’d gotten a picture of the guy who almost got run over, then tried to chase after the car who did it. he gave up after he realized he could not outrun cars. poor guy.
gonna spare you the commentary on my life and instead just put up pictures. do i know what you want or what? first, some hardcore nudity!!!
you probably can’t tell by the picture, but i was pretty close to this deer. they’re just not scared of man here. there’s a pseudo track nearby my apartment that’s next to the forest, and i pass within a few feet of them. they just make a mooing type noise and go back to grazing.
here’s a bad picture of the rutgers statue at night. apparently rutgers invented football. and they decided to play it right next to the computer science building. some cops eyed me while i was taking this picture. i think they thought i was gonna steal the statue or something.
