December the Twenty-Third

Winter Break: Day 4

Beautiful beautiful crescent moon out this morning. I'd take a walk, but it's NINE DEGREES (-13C, 260K).


Irony: a Facebook ad for careerbuilder.com states that it is 'looking for the next Tesla'. I'm sure every company wants a genius they could steal some of the greatest technological advances of the 20th century from, completely uncredited. Tesla died penniless, driven mad by the firey destruction of his laboratory and the failure of his Wardenclyffe Tower project to maintain sufficient investor support.

"It is intended to give practical demonstrations of these principles with the plant illustrated. As soon as completed, it will be possible for a business man in New York to dictate instructions, and have them instantly appear in type at his office in London or elsewhere. He will be able to call up, from his desk, and talk to any telephone subscriber on the globe, without any change whatever in the existing equipment. An inexpensive instrument, not bigger than a watch, will enable its bearer to hear anywhere, on sea or land, music or song, the speech of a political leader, the address of an eminent man of science, or the sermon of an eloquent clergyman, delivered in some other place, however distant. In the same manner any picture, character, drawing, or print can be transferred from one to another place. Millions of such instruments can be operated from but one plant of this kind. More important than all of this, however, will be the transmission of power, without wires, which will be shown on a scale large enough to carry conviction."
-Nicolai Tesla

It's been over a century, and well... we've almost caught up.

*wakeup* (8pm-3:30am, 7.5 hours)
Various last-minute Internet Tasks
Shower
Alumni Day

Ride home with Matt and Erik

Honors math alumni networking initiation

Dinner (potatoes, corn, squash, stuffing, cranberry sauce)

Miscellaneous reorganization

*crash*