cmouse

Pre-defense copy turned in.

Not having a great week (surprise!)- too busy to sleep much for starters. Going to Chicago for a week - things look to get better I hope. Lots of good food, theater, and AI.

Put up a new CSC website.

Now off to the first conference of the last year of grad school for me. Am I supposed to do anything differently now that I'm technically about to be on the job market? Hrm.

I would just like to point out that perhaps is the most powerful piece of live music I have seen in quite some time. Possibly ever.

Ok. ESP is buying a camcorder. Despite all appearances to the contrary, I know nothing about technology. Are they even called camcorders anymore? We want to spend $150-$200. Does anyone have any recommendations?

A friend of a friend posted this on Obama. It's very good and you should read it.

Oh god, I've started getting professor spam. I'm a bit shocked such a thing exists. I'm getting offers to publish my book at various small vanity presses, offers for international travel phone plans for specific conferences and other such things.

Hey guys,

Some of you may know an alum named Jesse Cox. The alumni office has no idea where to reach him and we need to find him for IP licensing purposes. If anyone knows where he is can you drop me a line.

I've got a bad idea.

I'm quite angry with the new internet radio royalties that, as it currently stands, will shut down Pandora, LastFM, Live365 and every NPR rebroadcaster ever on July 15th. You can find more information about this at SaveNetRadio.org.

This effects so many of us and I'd really like... well... it not to happen. It's not just about this instance - it is a terrible president to set. This whole issue isn't really being covered and I'd love a way to know how the current presidential candidates feel about the issue and possibly to shed some light on the issue. I've got a lot of video editing knowledge from doing my masters basically attached to an Avid system... so I figured I'd like to make a YouTube debate question asking them about this.

Then I realized that this effects so many people, why does it have to be just me asking the question.

I'm going to pick a date and time and invite *everyone* I know and everyone they know. Make a big publicity drive to get people to show up: Facebook, LJ, and other sources of publicity. Everyone locally who's effected and angry. Have them all stand behind me (maybe in front of the MIT Student Center) while I ask the question. I'm prepared for getting a lot of people. Then make a good professional quality video about the sites that are effected and explain why it's so important.

I am almost certainly doing this. If you'd like to help me organize, please tell me.

Lori: "Wait... Harry Potter is older than Dan?" *

Harry Potter was technically born in 1980.