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Cliq: Almost month 4

Almost 4 months and two firmware updates later. Contacts list got corrupted somehow so I had to do a hard reset on it about a week ago. Before it was doing quite nicely with battery life, but now post-reset the Cliq is back to its old battery sucking ways.

I’ve gone through and changed all the notification frequencies of all the apps I could find to longer time intervals, which has helped some. It’s still not back to pre-reset battery consumption levels though. Will have to dig some more to see if there’s anything else I can change.

The number for the cell phone has been seeded in a few places and to a few people. At least I know the area code and prefix now.

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PhD Year 1

Wrote the final exam in my Biotransport class today, finishing off the first year of my PhD.
Only about 4 or 5 more to go.

For the next few months all I have to think about now are just work and research. I don’t expect things to get less busy over the summer.

Time to figure out how to build an MPI enabled version of MCNP. Should be fun.

Every time I think about that, I hear the Emperor saying “Now witness the power of this fully armed and operational workstation”.

Yeah, I’m that nerdy.

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Kick-Ass at the Hippodrome

Saw Kick-Ass at the Hippodrome this evening. Didn’t really think much about it when I first heard about the movie, but after hearing the buzz about it online and from some friends, I decided what the heck.

I still didn’t expect much out of it but the movie ended up vastly exceeding my expectations. There’s a lot of big action that really begs to be seen on a Really Big Screen. Sure, parts of it are cheesy and covered up with spurts of over-the-top comic book violence, but it was a fun movie to watch and I quite enjoyed myself. Plus, it was at the Hippodrome, and I always enjoy myself when I get to see movies there. Seriously, after you see a few movies here you’ll never want to go back to the puny (by comparison) multi-plex theater screens.

With all the people being shot in the head, blown up, exploded and stabbed, it’s definitely not a movie to bring kids to.

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Smoked pork goodness

Smoked pork, smashed potatoes, green beans topped off with a brownie for dessert.
Another fantastic Friday Night Dinner at Ted’s Butcherblock.

Smoked pork, smashed potatoes, green beans for Friday Night Dinner at Ted's Butcherblock
Brownie drizzled with caramel sauce for Friday Night Dinner at Ted's Butcherblock
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CREATESouth fun

Saturday was roadtripping up to Myrtle Beach for CREATESouth 2010. Only got there a little bit late.

This year’s event turned out to be another good time, like last year was. Looked like attendance was up from last year. Started off with good keynote talks by Tee Morris and Mur Lafferty. Came in during the second half of Tee’s keynote. Really liked Mur Lafferty’s keynote talk. Big emphasis on social media this year. After going to Tom Lucas‘ talk on Google Buzz, I decided to give it a closer look. Seemed a lot like Friendfeed, so I hadn’t really paid much attention to it.

There were several iPads around, so the other thing I came away from CREATESouth with was a case of iPad envy. I want. I need.

Tee Morris giving a keynote talk at CREATESouth 2010

Yes, Tee Morris really is wearing bunny ears.

Mur Lafferty giving one of the keynote talks at CREATESouth 2010

Another delicious BBQ lunch by Andre Pope.

BBQ lunch buffet at CREATESouth

Tee offering some sound advice in his “Remaining Safe in Social Media” talk

What social media is all about, according to Jared

Photo of a slide from a presentation with Captain Picard pointing a finger. The photo is captioned "Engage!"