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Month: August, 2008

Wednesday WTF #9

27 August, 2008 (21:02) | General | By: Bryce Boe

A New York Time’s article today titled Wind Energy Bumps Into Power Grid’s Limits caught my attention. It seems that despite the ability to harness power from these resources we are unable to use them because of the inability to transport the power.
The power grid is balkanized, with about 200,000 miles of power lines divided [...]

Google: Week 9

27 August, 2008 (00:07) | General | By: Bryce Boe

Damn! It’s been 9 weeks so far. Well the fun has continued. Monday through Thursday was pretty standard. I advanced my project more, which I realized I haven’t mentioned much about my project. Well if you’re bored or interested in what I actually do checkout the work I’ve done. The number of results for this [...]

Wednesday WTF #8

20 August, 2008 (16:28) | General | By: Bryce Boe

Almost forgot about this today, so it’s not quite as clever as I was hoping my Wednesday WTFs would be, oh well. I can’t live up to my own expectations all the time.
Michael Phelps in the wee stage of life
Quite hilarious I think.

Google: Week 8

17 August, 2008 (19:05) | General | By: Bryce Boe

Week 8 was easily the most eventful week of the summer thus far. Just following last week’s post I received an email to checkout a 1996 Vdub GTI at 8 on Tuesday morning. I was very excited, but not thrilled to wake up around 6:45 as my normal wakeup time is 8:30. Anyway I test [...]

Wednesday WTF #7

13 August, 2008 (12:12) | General | By: Bryce Boe

I was shown this blog Cake Wrecks earlier this week and some of the things on it are just absurd!

Wedding Cake, of yourself — WTF? Someone is a closet cannibal
Literal Transcriptions — The next cake I have ordered I’m going to try my hardest to confuse the hell out of the cake people so that [...]

Google: Week 7

11 August, 2008 (23:42) | General | By: Bryce Boe

Last week wasn’t too shabby if you ignore the worrisome Wednesday. Not too much really happened, however I played volleyball on Thursday and that evening there was a booze cruise for the interns and, their hosts. As seemingly common with Googler only events, beer and wine were free. A few hours of Rock Band followed [...]

Wednesday WTF #6

6 August, 2008 (23:29) | General | By: Bryce Boe

Today was probably one of the worst Wednesdays I’ve had. First, I started the day off worried about my dad, which I wont go into details about. Let’s just say I didn’t sleep too well, however I spoke to him this morning and everything seems to be okay.
Second, while I was driving to work I [...]

Google: Week 6 – Woah-oh We’re Half Way There!

5 August, 2008 (23:42) | General | By: Bryce Boe

Damn I’m late again! I never make my personal Sunday midnight deadline. If it’s any consolation I wrote most of this Sunday night, started editing Monday night, and finally finished it just now.
Yes the end of week 6 signifies that my summer internship is half way complete, thus meaning I have another six awesome weeks [...]