SWEat U.C. Berkeley

Tomorrow, I will be attending the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Region A Conference. I scored a free registration since EJC was so generous to SWE. It'll be 10 hours out of my life; but it seems interesting and food should time well spent.

Still haven't gotten a PDA yet. Didn't pull off the Microsoft raffle, and the sale on Amazon ended before I could get to it. The SWE Conference may offer some chance, but I'm not betting on it. In related news, I'm satisfied that the next computer I get is going to be a Powerbook. Question now is whether it will be a 12" or a 15".

Eventually, I'm going to have to put something more interesting than the broad generalizations of everyday life. Ideas abound, such as opinions/editorials, a story, etc. We'll see, or maybe I could mix it up.

Deer Cat,

Ever so rarely do I see a Kodak moment, but I saw one this morning. While walking, I initally saw two deer, one was eating the small plantlife there, the other was watching me. To the right a little more were two more deer, also looking at me, and several feet behind the deer, on a fence was a sleeping cat. We started at each other for half a minute before I continued on my way.

The Flippin' God of War

I knew before my taking a course on Digitial Communications that it would be difficult. Today, I learned it's so difficult, even the professor is against us... he flipped us off during lecture. Okay, okay, it wasn't intentionally, but, still, I strained for a minute to not laugh and not think about it (neither of which helped).

In other news, I listened to a presentation by a friend and NASA engineer about NASA activities regarding Mars. It was very informative and entertaining. Though it makes me think. I really need to work on my presentations, and communication skills in general. I deduced that at the heart of good communication skills is confidence, and I haven't been feeling a lot of that in a while. What a quagmire.

If I Had a Million Dollars...

I'd buy me a green jet. But not a real green jet, that cruel.

Well, it's not that cruel. And it seems as if I couldn't get a green jet with a million dollars. According to eBay, I need 2 million just to get the parts and 9 million to have assembly. eBay listing CNN article

I'm still waiting to get a PDA, finally have sufficient funds to make my purchase. Now I just have to wait for the right moment. What I'm looking for:

• less than $300
  
• less than 0.5 in thick
  
• good screen quality
  
• some multimedia capailities (esp. MP3s)
  

Some considerations: PalmOne Tungsten E; Sony PEG-TJ27 or PEG-TJ37; HP iPaq 1935 or 1945. And then there's also the Microsoft Tech Talk.

'til the time the PDA comes my way... though probably much sooner.

So True

Oh the number of days in which this happens. It's astounding.

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