Oh, the places you'll go
Turn the volume up, and you’ll find it impossible to resist singing along.
The best photo I have right now of last week. We spent three days of the week hiking and camping in Zion National Park, a 5-hour drive from Neha’s dorm.
The hike pictured here is Angel’s Landing. The steep trek that can be seen behind us was pretty scary for me; to give you an idea of what it was like, there were signs informing us that people had fallen to their deaths due to unfortunate foot placement. The top was very cool, though.
Other adventures included a morning spent soaking in hot springs, climbing around playgrounds of rocks and tree trunks in canyons, picturesque walks, skipping stones in the secluded and beautiful Upper Emerald Pool, camping for the first time (igniting a fire, setting up the tent, s’mores, the whole shebang), admiring stars and planets in the night sky, In-N-Out, Taco Bell, extremely restful sleep, sitting on a motel floor and eating leftover KFC potato wedges while trying to not wake a sick Nupur, driving down the interstate while singing to the radio (of course), observing the faded colors still leftover from the magnificent Holi celebrations at the Sri Sri Radha Krsna Temple, and a movie night with delicious pizza.
It was a great spring break.
This post is dedicated to the amazing weather the Boston area has been having lately. Although I’ve been cooped up studying for a lot of it, I’ve been able to take advantage of it a little, and it’s been wonderful.
YOU CARED A LITTLE BIT.
(This is an example of the things I find absolutely hilarious at 3 a.m.)
When TED and Improv Everywhere collaborate, it unsurprisingly creates my most favorite thing ever.
TED Talk of the Day: A young entrepreneur named Colin Robertson attempts to deliver a three-minute TED talk about crowdsourcing solar energy solutions when his presentation is suddenly halted by every TED speaker’s worst nightmare: The infamous “spinning beach ball of death.”
Considering Robertson is really Eugene Cordero, an ImprovEverywhere agent who isn’t so much a young entrepreneur as a merry prankster, the “nightmare” doesn’t quite end there.
[ted / thanks charlie!]
In 2007 I went on a road trip to the Maine National Acadia Park with my sisters and a friend, Rose. On our first night we were in the motel watching a standard law enforcement drama show, probably Law and Order or something similar, as we prepared for bed. In one scene police confiscated a photograph. They brought it back to their labs and their technicians refocused the picture to reveal some relevant clue. As I remember, Rose was exasperated. She said something along the lines of,
“These crime shows always have so many loopholes! You can’t refocus an image after it’s been taken!”
It was true then. We all agreed and laughed at the oversight of the show makers. It’s been almost five years since, though. Now, things have changed.
Lytro is a new technology that does just that. If you look through their website, you can see how cool it is. An event I helped plan, the MIT Techfair, hosted Lytro and they did a photowalk, one of which can be viewed here (very bottom of the blog post). Techfair 2012 Exec represent!
Isn’t it just amazing that we’re part of this generation, watching this happen? Something that seemed so ridiculous and “out there” just five years ago has been created, and is a very real part of the world’s technology today. It gives me a lot of hope for the future of our generation and our legacies.
