not so much angst as nervousness

[solarbird]

Got a decent amount of stuff done today, but not as much as I'd wanted. I'm now spending much, much more time than is probably appropriate for the amount of material I've actually put down on email to a research professor at Georgia Tech about wearables stuff. I have deep levels of anti-confidence about this, which makes me feel very strange when trying to approach anyone to talk at all about it, possibly because a lot of it seems very obvious to me, so it must be very simple, and therefore I'm a gobot for not realising that, even though nobody's publishing much about it and the people I talk to about it in CS generally just kind of go "...uh?"

Not that it isn't a lot of work to try to see whether it could work, regardless. But I feel that I'm very late onto this bandwagon even if nobody has really heard of it anyway. So I'm trying to deal with the thoughts of both being late and very, very far behind, while also having ideas that nobody else seems to be talking about, at least not in journals I found.

Plus there's all the "exactly how do I make graduate school work physically, what with most people who care being far away" thing. To wit: AGH.

Stupid hard choices. Here, have a flower picture. ECUs are fun.

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[janne.livejournal.com]

Oooh, pretty picture.

[flashfire.livejournal.com]

Mmm color.

[catwingz.livejournal.com]

In the botanic gardens of Christchurch, New Zealand, they have those kinds of flowers in ALL different colors. Being surrounded by so much light and color made my heart soar.

[poodlgrl.livejournal.com]

Plus there's all the "exactly how do I make graduate school work physically, what with most people who care being far away" thing. To wit: AGH.

My sister in law is in graduate school and hers is in AUSTRALIA. She's Australian and the credits didn't transfer exactly for a US degree. Anyway, she goes to Kane Hall at UW and gets exams proctored to her by someone who is paid to do this - and it's just her usually.

Gorgeous photo btw.

[solarbird]

Paul's digital camera is much better than mine, even when mine was, you know, working. Man, a working focuser is nice to have access to again.

[solarbird]

And also, obviously, I'd be all over that kind of arrangement. UW people I mentioned it too were, shall we say, less than enthusiastic, but, well, whatever.

[kitchengrrl.livejournal.com]

What a COLOR! I so wish our soil were a differnet PH. I know I can amend it, but I don't think it will produce THAT. On the upside, the light blue hydrangeas I planted last year came back an intriguing shade of lavendar this year. Fun with soil chemistry!

[solarbird]

PNW soil is typically quite acidic - is that what makes for the bright flowers?

It also helps that I usually take flower pictures in cloudy weather, or at least near sunset for shade. Things are a bit less washed out. And Paul's digital camera is much better than mine, even when mine was working right.

[kitchengrrl.livejournal.com]

Not the brightness so much as the color. Hydrangeas are one of the flowers that show their reaction to soil Ph by changing color. They're blue in acidic soil and pink in alkaline soil. Indian Paintbrush (common wildflower down this way) are red most of the time, but change to yellow when there's a high sulfur content.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

One is curious... which professor at Georgia Tech?

(gatech is my alam mater :)

[solarbird]

Thad Starner.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

From what you told me, and what seems to be his approach currently, I imagine you two had quite the discussion.

[solarbird]

Not yet. Still working on the letter. I've got a couple of friends looking over it before I send it, and they just sent me back my first draft with suggested revisions. I'm VERY nervous about all this, so that's, you know, good. ^_^

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Just guessing, I'd say he's either going to go totally fan-boy over the idea, or be totally squicked.

If I were a betting man, I'd bet on the former, but not the rent money.

He certainly seems to have collected himself a cadre of like-minded geeks.