[PLUG-TALK] My Niece Lucy
Michael Rasmussen
michael at jamhome.us
Thu Feb 17 01:02:18 UTC 2011
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 04:22:58PM -0800, Aaron Burt wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 03:32:06PM -0800, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
> > My niece Lucy:
> > Today we built a simple audio transmitter and receiver using LEDs
> > without any carrier signal, so the audio frequency is transmitted
> > directly... blah blah blah, any ways, after I sent a signal successfully
> > ...
> >
> > yeah, blah, blah, blah. Like everybody knows this.
> > The rest of the story is about how her lab partner is a bit of a dim bulb.
>
> Go Lucy! And hooray for her EE curriculum for having way cooler labs than I
> ever got to do. Where's she going to school? Is EE her major?
She's a freshman at Boston University. I think the choice of majors is still
unsettled beyond generic engineering. She was thinking of environmental, but
that seems to have fallen out of favor.
> Just ran into a former EE/CS classmate on the bus the other night. One of
> the brightest people I ever met*, and probably the kindest and most sociable
> person in my cohort. She's working on embedded Linux at Intel now.
That's way cool.
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Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon
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