I ordered some Ford Motors stickers on eBay. Now I can slap them on my notebooks, etc. and mark Ford territory.

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Tonight is chocolate and wine night at Sydney-Pacific graduate house. Mmm!!!

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A little but very, very sweet.

Happy (early) Valentine's Day,
--Sarah

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As a Christmas present I got a $20 gift card for ThinkGeek. With it, I purchased a Mini Filing Cabinet and a Twist Alarm Clock. The filing cabinet can be used for holding business cards and other little items. It also has a small clock on the top drawer. The Twist alarm clock is my new attempt at helping me wake up in the morning. When the alarm sounds, I have to twist the clock to solve a math equation before the alarm will turn off. I hope this works! And I hope my roommate and neighbors will forgive me if I fail to turn it off quickly.

Happy solving,
--Sarah

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Singapore-MIT Game lab GAMBIT is celebrating the first video game Spacewar! They have a giant mockup on display in the Stata Center today until 5p that you can play. Also, on Friday night 5-8p at the MIT Museum, you can play it on a giant screen and listen to a lecture about the Spacewar! game.

Happy gaming,
--Sarah

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I forgot to mention in my previous post that the TRON mouse also lights up! Here's a shot of it in the dark. I've also included a video of what happens when you plug it in.

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It's here!!! Well it was here for awhile already. Waiting for me. Alone. In a box on a shelf being neglected while I messed with cars and Matlab simulations in Michigan.

But alas, we are united at last! There was a sweet deal on woot.com that I couldn't pass up to get this awesome gaming mouse. All you gamers out there are to cringe when you hear that I was using an Apple Magic Mouse to play StarCraft II. Yes, I know. Awful. Well now that's over! And now my epic pwnage on StarCraft can commence!

Also, note how awesome this packaging is. Razer did a great job! ...And now let's play!

Happy gaming,
--Sarah

P.S. I'm still a noob on SC, so epic pwnage may take awhile. :-P

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Here is my LEGO Mindstorms Robotics Kit that I received for my birthday when I was in 4th grade. This present helped launch my interests in engineering in a great way, which I believe is evidenced by my pursuit of studying mechanical engineering at UC Berkeley and now MIT.

Not many people know, but now I confess to the whole world, that I was very much into Sanrio and in particular Hello Kitty at that age. My parents gave me a choice for my birthday: giant stuff Hello Kitty or LEGO Mindstorms Robotics Kit. I think I chose wisely. ;-)

I remember building everything in the design books and programming my robots to do all kinds of stuff via the graphical programming interface. I even ventured into my own creations and tried to make one avoid obstacles on my kitchen table without also falling off the edge.

It wasn't until later in my life that I would find out that this kit was designed in collaboration with MIT Media Lab and National Instruments LabVIEW.

Parents, I urge you to consider investing in toys and kits like this for your children at a young age. My husband learned to program at age 5 because his grandfather gave him Bill Cosby programming books for kids. These things are highly influential, very positive and reinforcing for a young mind. It allows them to explore their own creativity and learn at their own pace.

I thank my parents for providing me with a gift that developed my brain, creativity, and laid down a foundation for my future.

Happy building,
--Sarah

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