College is going well. Despite this being my third time attending post-secondary (I've got two years of a Physics major as well as Comp Sci, Business and Philosophy from previous years) I feel pretty confident in my ability to get that damnable piece of paper that might help me get a better job.
Aside from that, I've also been working on a project proposal for the Labrador Institute. They've got an archive of old video tapes that they'd like converted into DVDs, so I've been conducting a lot of research into how to get the best quality captures from each tape. Considering they'll want several hundred tapes turned into 4 DVD sets each, it could take quite some time, but should be worth it in the end. Some of these tapes are the last remaining copies, so I'd like to do the best job possible.
Finally, last week a group of physicists in Singapore validated another idea I'd been toying with since I started researching peltier elements almost 3 years ago. Although I was thinking more along the lines of a 'thermal processing engine' that could also provide quantum elements, they've labelled it a Phononic Computer, which basically amounts to the same thing: a computer that uses heat to process information rather than electricity. However, they aren't looking for quantum elements, just standard logic gates with binary output, so I've still got my own little contribution to make somewhere along the line. Might have to go ahead and complete my electronics engineering program before I'll be taken seriously. You'd think it wouldn't be that difficult considering I called that solar cell advancement a year and a half before it was ever published, but thats life I guess.
