Bar Harbor

On Thursday Susanna and I took off in her new car to Bar Harbor. We did some hiking around Acadia. That was fun but rather tiring (I'm still sore and a little bruised). And of course the most important part was eating lots of lobster. Thanks again to Mom and Dad for the gift certificate to the Parkside Restaurant. It was supposed to rain the whole time, but luckily it held off until Sunday when we decided to head back.

Star Wars

I went to the midnight showing of Star Wars III last night. I liked it - definitely a lot less sap and silliness than the previous two. Plus some good Yoda fighting scenes.

127.0.0.1

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Sticker from ThinkGeek

If you do not get it perhaps one of these will help:
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Mac Buyer's Guide: Know When to Buy Your Mac

If you are thinking about buying a mac (and you should be) then this is probably worth checking out:
Mac Buyer's Guide: Know When to Buy Your Mac

Done!

I turned my thesis in today so the only two things between me and being done are grading some 6.101 papers and giving a presentation on my thesis project!

My Thesis

I just had my master's thesis approved over email and tomorrow I am going to print it and have it signed!

If you are interested:
My Thesis

I'll admit it is fairly boring to read, but there are some nice pictures in the middle and if you want to just read a few pages I suggest the conclusion.

It's Off

Well as of this afternoon my thesis is off in the hands of my supervisors. Hopefully they will only have minimal corrections and get back to me soon since I'll be gone pretty much all of next week.

The power amplifier design for 6.776 is done and written up. The design was tough, but was much less stressful than the lab since we did not have to actually build it. We designed a differential Class E amplifier with an output power of 92 mW and efficiency of 77% which does not sound like much but is actually really high for power amplifiers.

Time to enjoy a few days with nothing to do (well other than a few weeks worth of laundry and dishes and stress over when I am going to get my thesis signed).

The Time Traveler Convention - May 7, 2005

I went to The Time Traveler Convention - May 7, 2005 tonight. While no time travelers showed up it was cool to go to a party covered by the NYT. Even cooler than that (to me) is that SNL made fun of the event I was just at that night!

Unfortunately, no one from the future showed up, but it was interesting to listen to several professors talk about if time travel is possible or not.