Move to BYU

The beginning of this week has been spent on the road as Daniel and I traveled to BYU to start our final year of school next week. We split the drive up over three days to visit Daniel’s family on the way.
Monday we traveled to Bend. I must say, that Highways 22 and 20 are a beautiful [...]

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Family stories

Two weeks ago, I went to a family reunion. When I returned, I started typing up the stories from it that I could remember, so that I could pass them on to my children. I’ve just finished typing it all up.
My dad shared some words of wisdom he learned from his dad, such as “There [...]

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What I’m Taking With Me From My Intel Internship

So tomorrow is my final day at my summer Intel internship. For those who don’t know, I was a validator for the fetch and decode part of the next generation processor (in lay man’s terms, I made sure that the processor coming out in a couple years doesn’t have any bugs in the part of [...]

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Marcos – Our New Centrino Duo Laptop

Soon after I got married, I dropped my laptop and the screen broke. You can’t see any difference when the computer’s off, but as soon as the computer boots up, the screen shows a lot of white lines that cover practically the entire screen, following the line of a nice crack that runs diagonally across the screen. Since [...]

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A Family With Aspergers

Last weekend, I went to a family reunion, where my dad made a presentation about Aspergers. He did this because my brother has Aspergers, and as he’s researched it, he’s seen its symptoms in our extended family. As part of the presentation, he put up a list of symptoms, and I could see that I [...]

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Reflections on “The Tipping Point”

Title: The Tipping Point
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Why I Read This: Relief Society book club choice for August
Short Summary: An analysis of the different things that have caused social epidemics in recent history.
Website: http://www.gladwell.com/tippingpoint/index.html
No review this time. This book is a non-fiction, and since I know much less about how to judge a non-fiction book than I [...]

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Taking a “Quantum leap”

A week ago, Fortune published a story about the future of computing, and I found it to be an interesting read, both as a computer scientist and as a potential writer of sci-fi. Read the full article here
The article starts off with the story of a woman living in 2030. Computers are everywhere, monitoring things, [...]

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Whew! Insomnia v2 is done!

Originally I had wanted to have this draft done by the end of June. So, I’m a month and a half late. At least I actually finished it! I changed the first part a lot, and the ending’s slightly different. I like a lot of the changes, but I’m still not happy with Auma’s character, [...]

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Review: Postmarked the Stars **()()()

Title: Postmarked the Stars
Author: Andre Norton
Why I read this: I found it among my dad’s box of books, and thought it looked interesting.
Short Summary: When someone impersonates the cargo master of the Solar Queen, and plants radiation that retrogresses the animal cargo, the crew tries to escape prosecution at port, to end up in a [...]

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Genius Math Student(?)

The following work of math students was passed around work. I thought others might enjoy a laugh at them. Just know that I won’t let Daniel teach our kids to do math this way.

The astute math person will notice that the above example of lim x-> 8 is wrong. If you approach 8 [...]

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