Checksum Arcanius

…you just took another step towards complete nanny-statehood!

In the grand tradition of Kelo vs. New London, Washington State voters have jumped on the bandwagon to the feel-good notion of “public health” even while said wagon rolls over and squashes property and personal rights…

No longer can I enjoy the slightly seedy, character-rich, smoke-filled air of the Huricane Cafe or any other place that currently allows smoking… but hey, at least I’m safe from secondhand smoke! Just wait, in a few years we’ll be passing a law that prevents smoking in your own home, because at some future point someone else may live there and the effects of residual smoke will be too much to bear. Its for the children!

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…you have successfully forced the rest of the state to pay to fix partially fund safety for your transportation system.

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On Tuesday, Novermber 8th, I get to register for my next semester of classes. I have to choose among 26 credits that I’m interested in and make sense; I’m having enough trouble with 16 credits right now (just got a 86% in my CSE 143 test… ug!), so I’ll want to pair that down to 19 at the most. Hopefully Creighton, who got hired at Microvision the other day, will be enough up to speed bythen that I can reduce my hours even further. I think that I may start looking into a place west of the bridge once again, since this commute sucks up a lot of time that could be used doing… well, something useful perhaps. Its just so much money, but I’ve got to get over that I think!

Anyway, the classes I’m considering, and their credit values:
Bioengineering 201 (2) — Introduction to Bioengineering
Biology 220 (5) — Introduction to Biology III
Chemistry 238 (4) — Organic Chemistry II
Chemistry 241 (3) — Organic Chemistry Lab
Computer Science & Engineering 341 (4) — Programming Languages
Electrical Engineering 233 (5) — Circuit Theory
Math 394 (3) — Probability I

It all really hinges on whether Bioengineering works out or not, or if I even decide that’s what I’m going to do… eveyrone in the program that I’ve talked to so far has kind of warned me off, telling me that the program in immature, unaccredited, requires postgraduate work to be hireable, etc, etc… so computer engineering may be where its at. I’ll still apply to Bioengineering at any rate, to keep my options open, but I’m considering poaching towards computer engineering until I have figured out if I’m even going to get in to the Bioengineering department… this is of course assuming that I will get into Computer Engineering.. if I don’t do that, well, then… I dunno.

Since I will be attendig the Seattle Mindcamp this weekend, I talked to the Display group at Microvision and they agreed that it would be a good idea to lona me a Nomad Expert Technician System, the ND-2100 version of Microvision’s wearable heads-up display.

So here I am, wearing sunglasses and a Nomad that has been running for several hours, blogging away like a madman. Dan has photos that might be available on this blog before too long.

At the mindcamp, DAn and I will be pushing the TRC’s fundraising and outreach agendas, as well as geeking out with the 148 other nerds in attendence. It should be a good time, but I’m still planning on taking a break to see my sister who we are expecting up here from Eugene this weekend.

My biggest regret will be missing frisbee (which occurs at the same time as the mind camp’s opening ceremonies), but if we end up getting a million dollar endowment for the TRC out of this, it will all be worth it, right? Or even one year’s sponsorship… I hope the frisbee crew will forgive me…