One Year
This past week marks one year of this weblog. While it is truly remarkable how quickly time appears to pass, looking over all of the text and images accumulated over this last year shows me that the year was much more than the blink of an eye. I am particularly happy that almost every entry has a photo, as it really helps find specific events or thoughts that the words only help describe. I shall continue this trend. At 124 entries over the year, with 93 images, the average is approximately one every three days, with exactly 75% containing a picture. My grandfather maintains a log of events as a memory aid. In time, this should fulfill that function and exceed it. I see this database of entries as more of a time capsule.

This last week of school has been fairly hectic, with this upcoming week promising more of the same. During DSP class, the professor mentioned a very interesting point: apparently, the human eye samples on average at 28 times per second. I never occurred that eyes could process information in a discrete fashion.

As of this morning, a part of the enamel on one of my molars has fallen off, right at the gumline. The hole it left feels enormous, but the tongue exaggerates, as usual. Besides being disconcerting to my ever-curious tongue, what is now exposed is extremely sensitive; even carefully applied Sensodyne causes pain. I blame the dental hygienist, who during last week's cleaning worked the enamel loose. Damned densits. Now I have to visit them again to patch this up.

My brother's Enterprise model is progressing well. Today, the basecoats of paint were applied. Pictured is the stand, which was painted black and stippled with copper. I think it created a very nice finish. I'm doing this whole buildup with my brother as a present for his upcoming birthday (nothing is worth more to me than my time, he knows that), because I intend to move out soon and want to spend some quality time with him, and because it's a good diversion from schoolwork. I estimate completion next weekend or the weekend after that.

I replaced the motherboard in the laptop with the newly-purchased unit. Although the new board is the same part number and revision, the laptop now thinks it is a Latitude D600 instead of an Inspiron 600m and refuses to let me reflash it as such. Not a big problem. It is nice that all of the plugs are stiffer, buttons are less worn, and the unit as a whole is more rigid since its screws were all tightened. And, of course, the display is clear, which was good for the 4th year project presentation a few days ago.