Saturday, December 11, 2004
Work
Hello (have you made me money today?), I'm currently at work. There's people here, I'm sort of not used to that on the weekends when I work; and, therefore, I'm not studying, which I really need to get done. I'm not working tomorrow though so I guess I'll get a little somein-somein done then. I wrote an excellent outline for history last night, it just kicks ass. I also visited some of the professors I have been wanting to visit, mainly Dr. Krenz, he's a old COSC gone MATH teacher and I always see him, so I decided to drop by. We spent about half an hour talking about school cafeteria food and then when I told him I was minoring in FREN, he seemed to get pretty sad, and I felt pretty bad, his parents wouldn't let him study the languages. Furthermore, we started to talk about his research, which included studying rats' lungs to find blood vessals, they use a 8-bit grey scale to take an image of what the lungs look like after they inject the rats with a serum that helps them see where the blood vessals are. I couldn't help but ask if he reduced the number of bits the image was taken with (8-bits = 256 levels of gray) clearer results would be produced. He seemed to think not, because most of the errors were produced when the picture was re-imaged, and not in the initial image. It's funny because the re-image is re-creating exactly what the researchers are looking for, so it's a vicious cycle, it came off a bit that they were fabricating their results, but not purposely. I guess you'd have to hear what he said in order to understand it completely. Interesting guy, that Krenz, not that I'd major or minor in MATH because of him, but interesting nonetheless. Anyway, I suppose I should get back to work now. Just don't forget to make me money!
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i will make you money only if i see something i like, and i will only see stuff i like if you keep posting neat stuff like this. You should have said German, when I talked to that guy his eyes lit up with glee when I told him I took a few years of german, he suddenly started going all out and speaking german and I was just like, exactly. Rats though, eh, guess everyone has different tastes. you sorta threw me off with the bits and all that, but no problem, i got the main idea. Um, this RSS ad looks neat, gonna click and make you money... wee! I love the google.
What's funny about Krenz speaking German is that he said that he wasn't allowed to take a language as a child... at least that's what he told me... very interesting indeed.
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