Set and Setting?

Ok, here's the deal, if you read this, you MUST reply, even if its just a line or two ;) How do you feel? Where are you? What's going on in YOUR life?

Right now, I just woke up, took a shower and just relaxing on the computer. I'm so glad it's Saturday, I really don't feel like doing any school work today. I've been feeling really inspired lately; I really can't pinpoint why, or where it's coming from. I've just had a lot of really random thoughts flowing through my head, and I feel really free to explore them. It's not that I've even had a lot of free time to think, I've actually been really busy. I've got a huge proposal to do tomorrow, and it's going to take forever to do, but that's OK. Today, I hope to just relax with my girlfriend and just take it easy. Ah, I love the weekends.

PS: I wish it would stop snowing already.

Is It Worth Being Wise?

Read the article here.

Great essay on the differences between being smart and wise. Quite the twist at the end as well! He had me hooked, that bastard... I actually started feeling like I had possibly made a terrible, terrible mistake somewhere down the line. :)

The path to wisdom is through discipline, and the path to intelligence through carefully selected self-indulgence. Wisdom is universal, and intelligence idiosyncratic. And while wisdom yields calmness, intelligence much of the time leads to discontentment.

Update Flash Drive?

I found this great way to auto-backup your USB flash drive here. Took me awhile to find a solution for this seemingly simple problem though. I would have thought there would be programs already made to complete this task. :shrug:

Maslow's Peak Experience

I was just watching "Heroes" and I noticed that Skylar said something about "Maslow's Peak Experience". Although this is a VERY fictional TV show, I was intrigued nonetheless. I went on a reading spree at this point and came across this article describing the phenomenon. After reading about what peak experiences are, I was even more intrigued. I didn't know that there was any type of theories pertaining to peak experiences other than just general psychology (peak experiences set a reference point for evaluating other experiences, etc). I read the Wikipedia entry for Maslow and read a little about the hierarchy of needs, which is very much interesting in its own right, but something about Maslow's work on peak experiences was very attracting. I went on to read a little of Religions, Values, and Peak Experiences by Maslow himself. I ended up jumping to the third section about the "core religious" and "transcendent" experiences. Quite the read, I would encourage you to take a look into this, especially if you feel that you have HAD a peak experience.

I feel that the reason I was so interested in this whole ordeal was that I feel that I have had a mystical peak experience, and I really had no way of relating it to 'real' life in any shape or form. My opinion on the matter was that most everyone was CAPABLE of having a peak experience, but was unsure as to why 'peakers' seemed to be in the minority. In any case, I'm sure any of my thoughts on the matter are somewhat restatements of the above reading in some shape or form, so if interested, you should have a read. I definitely want a response if you feel that you've had a peak experience or have an opinion on the topic.

School.... CANCELLED?

WTF? University? Canceling? What is the world coming to?

There is a lot of snow here though, mostly drifting, so I can definitely see why they canceled. It really makes parking and getting out of a parking spot a real bitch with only 2wd. When we left today, there was only buses, police cars, ambulances, and plows on the road. It was pretty deserted. The actual roads weren't really that bad to be honest; not any worse than they were the last snow.

On another note, I really need to come up with an idea for senior design. I think I'm going to go talk to some professors and see if any of my ideas are viable projects. I would really like to make an audio effects device using DSP, but I've only had one semester of that, so I'm not sure if I could pull it off considering the time frame. My fall-back idea is a home security system, so if all else fails, I can just do that.

I kind of wanted to do a headphone amplifier through the USB port, but I really don't know if that is too easy/hard since I'm not sure what type of components it entails. I know there are probably a bunch of modules I can use that will make the project very simple, but we have to actually build/calculate 50% of our project (non-prebuilt), so I have to keep that in mind as well. I also need to keep in mind that I'm here to graduate, not have a cool project, so just getting done is my highest priority.

I didn't get the internship unfortunately, the interviewer said that they went with a student that would be willing to stay for the summer and fall, which I was not willing to do. I'm pretty sure I know who they picked, he's in most of my classes. Pretty smart guy, I'm glad he got hooked up. I kind of wonder why he took it though, that'll extend his stay for at least another summer semester possibly a fall as well. Oh well, hopefully I'll get another prospect before the summer comes.

Logged in History

I thought it was funny... :shrug:

Interesting Sensation

Just the other day, I had just woken up and was trying to go back to sleep. I closed my eyes and started to relax. A force started pulling down/left and I felt like my inner essence was being pulled from my body into that direction. I wasn't scared, I was very much curious as to how this would pan out. I tried to stay as alert as possible so that I could remember what happened.

As I was being drawn out, I started to hear my name being called, maybe once every second or so in frequency at first. As more time passed, the frequency in which my name was being called started increasing quite rapidly. At the time, I couldn't figure out if "I" was saying my own name, or if it was something else 'saying' it. As my name was being called faster and faster, I started sliding down and out faster as well. Eventually, my name was being said so fast that it started to turn into a blurry white noise which started increasing in frequency as well.

All of a sudden, when the sound became so intense that I felt it couldn't get any more intense, everything dissipated. I was in a void of some sort. I felt as if I had gone through some sort of portal and there was nothing except my consciousness. After this, I'm not sure what happened. I'm assuming I lost focus at this point because there was nothing to really focus on. Weird stuff.

On another note, I had my first interview today. It went really well, and I hope they are interested. The work seems right up my alley and I hope they see it the same way I do. Although they interviewed quite a number of people, I'm still fairly confident. We'll see what happens.

Crazyness

Is this guy serious?