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  • Booting In

    Booting In

    Kitty drives me to the airport at 3:45. Despite my hours of packing and gathering, I still have to stop by Tech one more time to grab my missing Arduino ADK. Get in to Panama, meet nice older biologist couple in the Inmigration queue. As someone described, the airport looks like the 1970’s.   Found…

  • Conchs are Weird, Personable

    Conchs are Weird, Personable

    Woke up on beach. Everything is back right with the world. Returned gopro camera to amazon through byzantine process involving a best buy, staples, and a ups. Spent the morning exploring the beach. I knew conchs were mollusks, and I’ve seen their feet before, but I figured they were just some blobby, snail or oyster-like…

  • Academic Sass, Cash Moneys, Gopher Tortoises

    Academic Sass, Cash Moneys, Gopher Tortoises

    Morning lecture by Danielle McNamara from ASU. Preaches for “games” (she speaks incredibly broadly about this topic) to be used as educational tools but argues adamantly that games themselves have NO LEARNING VALUE. She proves this by administering pre- and post- examinations to groups who play a (pretty shitty-looking*) game vs. watching a powerpoint presentation. *[they admit…

  • First Academic Conference

    First Academic Conference

    First day of my first Academic Conference! Weirdly laid back conference. Everyone’s in shorts and loose shirts. Topics are AI conferences seem odd in that there is a huge spectrum that individuals seem to cover between theory and practice. At one end, I spoke with some german researchers about several diagrams of crazy just-pure-math, probabilistic…

  • Panama Preparations

    Panama Preparations

      Spent the night meticulously gathering all my filming supplies and attempting to optomize their loading into my backpack. My somewhat masochistic goal is to use the trip down to southwestern florida for the FLAIRS-25 conference as a stress test for my body and equipment. I want to see how much equipment I can carry…

  • Permethrin

    Permethrin

    Bought some Permethrin to bug-proof my clothes and tent. As my boss says: “permethrin is serious shit, make sure you look into the warnings.  I sprayed a barrier of it around our house 5 years ago and we have never had a bug in the house.  I also use it on the ground under the bee…

  • Arm-y Ant Farm

    [rellink] Instructable [/rellink]