Op-Ed Columnist - The Copenhagen That Matters - NYTimes.com

A Thomas Friedman article regarding Denmark's tax on gasoline.

"Already the green taxes here are quite high," said Espersen. "And even though we know this is not popular with business and industry, it has made all the difference for us. It forced our businesses to become more energy efficient and innovative, and this meant that, suddenly, we were inventing things nobody else was inventing because our businesses needed to be competitive."

This is more or less a survival of the fittest, isn't it? When in the last 100-years have you known America not able to survive with the fittest? I say bring it on and make us Americans think a little instead of sitting on gchat all day at work waiting for something to problem-solve.

Ahoy from Einstein's

I have to find some European friends so I have someone to bullshit
with in the wee hours of the morning.

Dr. Duval

I think I  have decided I am going to be come a pediatrician, but I am not sure how that is going to work with the engineering background. We'll see how it goes.

Blogger: the relative importance of different things - Email Settings

test 1 2 3

Marissa Miller

See attached.

Sunday Night Landscape Keyboard

Purduves post 2-weeks of classes. Courses include BioFluids, mechanics
of MEMS and NEMS, Biosensors, and a medical device regulatory affairs
seminar. Not too bad for a crop of titles. The professors are legit,
very sharp, top in their fields (or so they seam), and witty (a laugh
in the classroom every 5-7 minutes should be part of Obama's education
reform).

It is eye opening moving into a 10x8' dorm room and realizing the
little I/we need in our lives to get by. A bed, small dresser, closet,
and small fridge is the ticket. Plus, its so easy to keep things clean
in such a small space. One more shipping crate for a kitchen and
living room and it's smooth sailing.

5.5 miler today. Tomorrow hopefully will bring another.

Check out Bar. Absolutely gorgeous. But to Marissa.

Sent from the iPaul

Make Your Own Chalkboard Paint - DIY Creations - Lifehacker

http://lifehacker.com/5350666/make-your-own-chalkboard-paint

Wiggling Their Toes at the Shoe Giants - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/business/30shoe.html?em

Welcome to Project H Design: A Non-Profit Organization Supporting Life-Improving Humanitarian Product Design

http://projecthdesign.org/

http://www.good.is/post/earning-college-credits-by-taking-classes-via-youtube/

http://www.vibramfivefingers.com/technology/anatomy.cfm

http://www.mit.edu/people/robot/

Sandia National Laboratories

http://sandia.gov/

Sent from the iPaul

Purduves: Bioengineering vs. Design: MEMS, NEMS, Mechatronics???

So it finally happened. Tests were taken, recommendations were written, shit was gotten together, and the application was submitted. The result was an admission to Purdue University's Graduate School of Mechanical Engineering (referred to as PurDUVES by the cool kids). Who woulda thunk it. 3-years at Jarvik and I'm back in the dorms, with an RA, but without the meal plan (to date). How I was admitted? Don't ask me. My undergraduate GPA sure wasn't the reason. I think Dr. J's recommendation letter swayed some admission committee opinions. Nathalie and Dr. Couetil also might have pulled some strings, but here I am at a crossroad once again.

Anyways, fall 2009 semester courses were chosen. Now comes the hard part of convincing a professor that he needs me to do some research for him so I can narrow down what the hell I'm going to be doing (and paying for) these next 2-years.

My research interests include: Bioengineering and Design. Where it stems from there, I have no idea. More research on a research topic has to be done, but I would like to get my hands dirty within micro/nanotechnology biomedical applications or medatronics (combination of mechanical and electronic systems, or so says wikipedia).

More news to come.

Notes

crossfit.com

stem art and technology together.

culture is overwhelmed with information available. people start to feel meaningless. must start to think on individual scales again.

Your Life's Purpose: http://lifehacker.com/5322429/discover-your-lifes-purpose-in-around-20-minutesor-not

Books: http://lifehacker.com/5322188/the-bookworms-guide-to-the-lifehacker-galaxy

Purdue's Global Engineering Program: https://engineering.purdue.edu/GEP/

Info & Resources for Current ME grad students: https://engineering.purdue.edu/ME/Academics/Graduate/currgrad.html
 

Free 2D: Solid Edge: Velocity Series: Products and Solutions: Product Lifecycle Management (PLM): Siemens PLM Software

http://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/en_us/products/velocity/solidedge/free2d/index.shtml

Year In Ideas 2008 - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/12/14/magazine/2008_IDEAS.html

Dual Perspectives Article

http://www.wired.com/dualperspectives/article/news/2009/06/dp_opensource_ars0616

Sent from the iPaul

Entrepreneurs Find Gold in Gadget Startups | Gadget Lab from Wired.com

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2009/03/changing-econom.html

Readers, digest!

Goals on the mind:

1. 1-year time line to living and working in Europe.
2. Online pre-med courses.
3. Build a universal remote for a HTPC system out of my dust-gathering Nokia iTablet 770.
4. Build an HTPC including a Nintendo ROM to play old games on. Control through a wireless XBOX 360 controller.
5. Get a used piano off of Craigslist free section.
6. Build a rep-rap machine and along with the dremmel attachment, include a sewing head to create custom designs on fabric.
7. Read Bill Gates' 2009 Annual Letter.
8. Start building my future with a Roth IRA or investments.
9. Look into Doctors Without Boarders.
10. Brainstorm the possibilities of shipping containers.
11. Keep a running library of stand-up material and build a sketch for an amateur comedy night. Either at a comedy club or in front of friends in a living room.
12. Pick a goal and achieve it.
13. Start a savings account funding traveling the world.
14. Make flower boxes and start growing food on the roof. Requires a saw and drill.
15. Look into coaching basketball in Hoboken or Jersey City.
16. Start volunteering at Hoboken Hospital.
    

VistaPrint - Business Cards - Full Color Printing - Digital Printing Company | VistaPrint

Free business cards

http://www.vistaprint.com/vp/ns/default.aspx?dr=1&rd=2&GP=3%2f8%2f2009+10%3a44%3a49+PM

Sent from the iPaul

Overwelming a Saturday Night

After a quiet Saturday night (well deserved and missing lately), its has been brought to my attention that the world is still at ones finger tips, waiting, almost beckoning, to be invented, created, transformed, re-made, re-designed, and redefined. This continual exponential expansion is beautiful.

A night of my browsing usually encompasses two sites: Make: Blog and Lifehacker. I can get lost so fast within their links (and links from those links), yielding 10+ tabs open at once stemming to a wider-open borderless field of interest.

I love the creative do-it-yourself stuff. It can be anything. Home building, computers, gardening, knitting, green energy/building, videogame developing, programming, t-shirt printing, etc. Anything stemming to and from that creative human element floats my boat.

Its almost overwelming (as brought to attention tonight). It is overwelming due to the limitless amount of amazing things that lacks time and money to invest and experiment with.

Even Jay Leno is seeing it. A post taken from the Make: Blog references a recent Jay Leno's Garage episode where he takes to a couple of guys who can scan a 3D object and turn it into a 3D digital image. With that imagine, the part can then be duplicated. Rutgers had a 3D printer of some sorts like the one in the episode. But is so overwelming! To think, for under $5k you can have a production facility in your garage thats limited to only the dreams and imagination flying around between your ears.

And now theres gonna be a $100 computer as big as a smoke detector?!? Limitless applications that can be used for. And you need free help with that? Google's got you covered.

How does a world grasp that!? As quoted from another real smart guy, "Almost nothing has been invented yet."

Or Mr. Einstein, "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

Music: The Go! Team - Get It Together

Fwd: New Jersey - Recycled-Container Chic - NYTimes.com

So you've all driven through Newark on the Turnpike or 78. You've all looked out your locked car windows at the piles of trash, smoke stacks, car lots, power plants, Bon Jovi's, fat sandwiches, and anything else that apparently give the rest of the country the only picture of the great state of New Jersey. inside this dirty exisits the building blocks of a promising and innovative way of building buildings.

As told by Pops, who somehow knows a lot about a lot, there is a great surplus of shipping containers in Jersey straight up chilling. A great amount of products that come into the NY/NJ ports are carried in standard shipping containers. The shipping crates are not shipped back to Asia because it's cheaper to just make new ones.

The title of this post is from a NY Times article about how some dudes want to build an apartment omplex in Harrison, NJ out of the surplus of containers.

This theory has been around for a while, not just for apartment complexes, but for shelters for third world countries. Think about it. You're in a third world country picking rice or oranges or making some Air Jordans in a factory all day. You get out after a 12-hour day and get home to your house made out of plastic siding, cardboard, and anything else you can gather. And your house sits within a lovely neighborhood of other plastic siding houses. You're so money. Oh wait, no you're not, you're far from it. You're not asking for much, obviously gwtting by with nothing already. You just a want roof over your head, a locked door you can hide behind, and maybe some electricity and a hot shower every so often. You just need a shipping crate from Newark.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/realestate/01njzo.html

Mobile test

Test

Sent from the iPaul