American Values

This was Bruce Lee’s philosophy. Quite the opposite of what you usually hear from the average stony brook student. I sometimes worry about where the U.S. is heading. We were able to surpass the rest of the world for most of the 20^th century, largely because we had scientists and engineers creating airplanes, televisions, computers etc… giving us technology that the whole world wanted. Stony Brook is supposed to be a top science school, but I can’t remember one instance of hearing someone say that their goal in life was to create or discover something revolutionary. The professor mentioned in class how the difference between us and Harvard students is that we look for job and they create jobs. I guess this just stems from our culture of non-stop entertainment and instant gratification. I’m not really sure what would change this.

cool architecture

This first photo is of the new math and geommetry building on campus. I passed on my way to physics on the last day of class and it caught my eye because it has that phi element that we talked about in the beginning of the semester.

This photo is an awesome building we came across on our way to the Tank. It almost reminded me of something Frank Gehry would desgin.

kinect

To be honest, I think the idea of the Kinect is incredibly lame. I'm not much of gamer, but I know people look ridiculous while playing the Kinect. What's much more interesting to me are the possibilities of other things that can be done with this technology. Here's a pretty cool use of it that I found.

maxmsp

Starting work with my transparency in sketchup.