Busy, busy!
Wow, am I busy!
I gave a presentation on a distributed authorization/authentication system this morning at 9:45, and I gave a talk on artificial white blood cells this afternoon at 2:00. I am close to finishing an incredibly long assignment that's due tomorrow afternoon at 4:30. I have two exams next Monday: one at 8:30 AM and one at 5:30 PM. I have a term paper for publication due next Friday at noon.
One week from now, I'll be trying to figure out exactly where the past five months have gone. They've been a whirlwind of homework, neighbor issues, homework, reading papers, homework, and lots of other things, and I'll be glad to finally have a couple days to do nothing. Of course, then, I'll be bored out of my mind, but at least I won't feel guilty for not doing school stuff.
The nanotech presentation today went very well. I think I spoke a bit quickly because I had a zillion slides and didn't want to take up more than my allotted time, but it seems like everything worked out. I fielded some difficult questions with some excellent answers, and I'm very happy about how the whole thing happened.
After class, I asked Elias if anyone at Carnegie Mellon does medical nanorobotics, and the closest he could figure was a guy by the name of Lee Weiss who does medical robotics. He's specifically interested in tissue engineering. Elias said I should talk to Lee (about doing my doctoral dissertation with him) and tell Lee that he sent me. The next time I get a chance to write a coherent, academic email, I'll see what I can do about Lee.
Since my brain is pretty much fried for the night, Katy and I are going to watch an episode of Farscape (we started at the first episode a few weeks ago, and she's loving it!), I'm going to drink a gin and tonic, and then it's bed time. I'll finish up that homework assignment in the morning.
From Picksberg, this is *mumble* *mumble*, signing off.
Comments
Good to here that you are wrapping up the semester with a string of successes.
Oh, and tell Katy I am sorry about the Farscape thing :P
Posted by: tlt | May 5, 2006 09:03 PM
I know it's been awhile since you posted your problem about the TV-tuner card and your 64-bit system. I had the same problem when I ran across your blog while I was searching for the answer. Since I found a solution I thought I'd come back and share it.
Go here...
http://www.club3d.nl/index.php/support/drivers
click on Zap TV->1100->Your OS
Unzip the file, don't run Setup.exe.
Just go to the drivers folder and run the executable in the folder representing your system to install drivers.
Downloaded the Vista drivers and it worked perfect on my XP x64 system.
Of course these are just the hardware drivers. You still need tuner software to make it work.
I was lucky enough to get a copy of the Yuan DVD Encoder software from their Japanese website before they took down the support section.
It works perfectly as a Tuner/Recorder, but I haven't been able to find it anywhere else. There are tons of links to to files called the Yuan DVD Encoder VDO smart tools and other flavors of their DVD Encoder, but so far none of the ones I've tried work.
The one I got that did work was labeled PG600_Y3506104R.zip and is about 23 megs.
Posted by: Raymond | December 7, 2007 09:16 AM