It’s expected to hit 60 degrees today, so it seems like we can enjoy one day of Indian Summer before colder air moves in. Sunny now, supposed to rain later.
Got an email from Hotwire yesterday announcing a one-day airline fare special. Without a traveling companion, though, it seemed like a waste of time to even look into it.
I like this left outer join t-shirt.
Last PT appointment is tomorrow. Attended a lecture last night by Frank Moss, the Director of the MIT Media Lab. He talked about the technologies they’re developing to help paraplegics, including an electronic ankle. It takes a tremendous amount of CPU to replicate movement in an ankle, as opposed to a knee.*
Can’t believe Thanksgiving is next Thursday.
That’s probably why things have been quiet on the recruitment front, everyone’s getting into holiday mode, or maybe scared about the impact of higher oil prices and the subprime market debacle.
Have been wondering how aggressive Bush appointee Ben Bernanke and the rest of the gang at the Federal Reserve are going to be in averting a recession this coming Presidential election year.
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*I was a little disapppointed with the lecture, which was subtitled “ushering in a new era of human adaptability”, having hoped that Dr. Moss would talk about other types of human:machine interfaces, like downloading the ability to understand foreign languages.