Planet Olin

http://buzz.wsum.wisc.edu:8000/station/archives/8

you can now download archives of the radio show for convenience in listening. i especially recommend the episode where i interview physicist marshall onellion about his book "Seeking Truth: Living with Doubt" which i believe is the second one listed, it aired on 02/20. you can also hear my shoutout to sara at the end of the most recent one, which aired on 02/27


p.s. so thanks to jon chambers i realize that in fact you can't actually access the archives unless you're...me. very few of you bare that particular burden, so if you're interested in getting an mp3 of one (or more) of the episodes just let me know and i'll send it along.

Roland and I had a conversation tonight.

Me: hey roland i'm going to say something that'll make you laugh
Me: are you ready?
Roland: ok
Roland: go for it
Roland: i think i'm prepared
Me: SUBPROFILES
Roland: OH MY GOD
Me: do you remember those things
Roland: i totally forgot and took like 20 seconds to figure out what you were talking about
Roland: but then i remembered
Roland: man

Then Roland showed me a screenshot that was an even bigger blast from the past.

Oh man, chain IMs? Subprofiles? AOL Instant Messenger for Mac OS 9?! Since when did 2001 become six years ago?

1) Watch the Duck Tales intro at least once per day.

2) ...

3) Profit!

MadScience now airs on Tuesdays at 5pm CST. you can stream it from www.wsum.org


p.s. i just found out i won 2nd place in the news/documentary category from the Wisconsin Broadcaster's Association. totally go me.

I left my shoes in Roland's room yesterday. I got an email about it today.

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From: Roland Crosby [roland.crosby@students...]
Sent: Fri 2/9/2007 1:52 PM
To: Katherine Elliott
Subject: shoes.

shoes.
shoes.
shoes.
oh my god, shoes.
come get your shoes.
come get your shoes.
come get your shoes.
come get your shoes.

etc.
**********

I lol'd.

While most of you were watching Super Bowl XLI, I went to my first breakdancing class. I’m signed up to weekly classes at Dance Zone through the UT Texas Union Informal Classes program.

The first class started with a brief discussion of the art and a passionate plea by our instructor to understand the history of what it’s all about, which was refreshing since I worried it might turn out to be some lame hip hop dancing sort of class.

Nope, this is the real deal. My instructor has trained with the original B-Boys such as the ones featured in the classic movie Breakin’.

There are about 10 beginners and 6 or 7 more advanced B-Boys and B-Girls in my class. The pace is pretty fast, which I appreciate.

On day one we started with a few basic moves to help us catch the beat, as classic original funk and breakbeat songs blasted on the hi-fi. The instructor then had us try to walk on our hands across the floor. I could do about 3 or 4 steps the few times I didn’t immediately fall over.

After that we learned perhaps the most fundamental move of all, and the basis of “footwork”, the 6-step. Here’s a pretty good YouTube video to show what I mean.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8egcCAIwj0Q]

I am still a bit sore from it, two days later, but that is subsiding now. I can’t wait to get back in there!

It is done. I'm glad that things worked out in the end, but it was not optimal. Perhaps it is the engineer in me that is disappointed that a conference with so much potential achieved only so much (..or little). Happy still though that I've received much feedback from the conference attendees (and speakers!) regarding the quality of the program. Though it is the end of a conference, perhaps this has begun the part of my life where I am involved with many conference plannings. I already allowed Jessie to punch me in the face if I do participate in conference plannings in the future, and have already received a punch.. but we'll see how far that goes. You potentially could slap me across the face as well.. for getting overly involved. Alas.. this is Olin.. isn't it?

mm.. a few thanks: (I feel as if I am making a speech..)
- pheebs
- Jessie
- MIT crowd (Christine, Christine, Angie, Anne, Jenn
- Isaac

and of course cannot forget Mr. David K. Lee, Chairman of the Board of Directors for ITASA, for the passionate kiss. (I jest of course. But there is a story......)