Transistors and Trapeze
It's Hurricane Season.
Oh baby.
As it turns out, hurricanes bring wind, and lots of it.
Which is good news if you like to go fast.
Lauren and I took full advantage of this opportunity on Friday.
We photobombed some park goers in a sailboat.
What's more fun than that? (nothing)
I'm putting in a second trapeze so we can both get out there next time, and maybe a third for this guy:
It's weird that July only lasted for about 15 minutes this year.
I guess that's what happens when you're lucky enough to do the things you love.
And live in a beautiful place.
At work, Chris and I are almost finished with the project we've been working on.
Omnisense is a cloud based sensing company.
Basically they make sensors, those sensors record and send data to a server, and then you can access and interact with the data on a website.
I've been writing code for the new and improved website.
It's almost finished, and I have learned a lot from doing it.
Last weekend I went to visit the boys who started work in Charlotte, but I don't have any pictures.
That was uncharacteristic of me, and I wish I had taken some.
Out of curiosity, I wrote a program to simulate riding the bus. Lo and behold it follows a Pareto distribution, much like everything else.
I'm not sure why those dips are there, but the trend is clear.
Things are breaking on the boat less and less, but every now and then something will give out.
All the really important parts are replaced, but it's still annoying when the tiller (steering stick) snaps off.
And when the trapeze handle gives out and stabs your hand (sorry Lauren).
Slowly but surely she (boat) is being tamed.
It's a lot easier when you have great crew.
Jack and I have been working on an electronics project.
We've been messing with circuits, soldering, and programming a tiny computer.
It's nice to have someone with whom your interests align.
I learned to solder at CERN, and recently I found out I say "solder" wrong. I was taught by my mentor, who is German. She said it like it's spelled, sol-der, but it's actually said like saw-ter. I thought it was interesting that I picked up an English word from a non-native English speaker.
In the near future there is more of the same, but mixed up a little bit because of this storm.
See you later.
