dave and his girlfriend drove over today and we decided to go eat at the other side. this sounds familiar... i just love that fruit plate.
anyway, it took us about 20 minutes to find a parking spot on this side of the river. they enjoyed the food, and we talked about atheism, physics, noam chomsky, and a variety of other stuff. dave's an easy guy to talk with because he's very agreeable and kind.
we walked back to MIT and i gave them a tour of the campus. the jello imac contest was today. entries ranged from full-sized mildly resemblant (is that a word?) to small things that were difficult to distinguish from regular jello shapes you would eat.
it was cool that the contest was today and that we happened to walk by it, because dave and his girlfriend were very impressed by it and i think it gave them a good impression of MIT.
also, it says something about MIT that there was a well-attended student contest held during spring break.
we also went to the MIT museum. i had to leave them in the gallery of hacks so i could get to my research meeting. the meeting was a flop. guy had worked on his coding demo all night (literally) but choose to put it on a corrupt floppy disk rather than FTP it to molvig, so when he demoed it to us today, it didn't work at all.
also, i still haven't done that homework he gave me last month... so we're supposed to bring good stuff for monday's meeting.
i fell asleep after i got home because i had to wake up early to meet dave. promptly after falling to sleep and having a bizzare dream, mike allen called and woke me up. i forgot that we were making robots tonight for the demo at the museum.
i ran over there and we worked from 5:30 until midnight. mike already had a chassis built so he just programmed it and put some sensors on it and it was done. i tried to build a cool chassis but gave up at midnight with one about 90% done. it needed rubberbands which we couldn't find, and we were both tired. so i gave up.
that's ok, though, because there'll still be 6 robots at the demo. i got a free black t-shirt (for organizers only nyuk nyuk) and on sunday we demo the competition to 300 screaming kids for two hours. ouch.
rolf and i decided that this is something you never hear anyone say. ever:
"man o man, am i limp."
