Thoughts

It's little bit of a late post, but I wanted to share one of my cooking ventures. I like experimenting with foods (occasionally), so this won't be the last post about food. However, Monday of finals week (6/4), Lorice and I cooked pancakes for breakfast. They were banana cinnamon buttermilk pancakes, and they were pretty good with a little maple syrup, butter, and coconut shavings on them. I may have gone a little overboard with my first pancake. The T-Pancake, with egg and kiwi Lorice, showing the proper way to eat one's pancakes.

For a while now, my Zune HD has been broken. I'll be working to fix it this summer. However, I'm beginning to question if my Zune HD FM Transmitter might have some usefulness in the meantime. I was driving to campus and I noticed that my Zune transmitter, even without a Zune plugged in, will transmit silence on whatever station it is set. Now, personally, I've never been a fan of either Zune or Mac products that only work with said branded mp3 players. It occurred to me that maybe I could "hack" my Zune transmitter to be able to play with any device. All I would need to do is hook up a 3.5 mm jack to whatever lines the transmitter uses for audio. Then I could have that protruding form the back with a wire or something so either head can still be used.

As you can see in my previous blog post, I recently had an interview with Alta Devices in Santa Clara, CA. I took the bus up to San Jose where my dad picked me up in my car and drove me to Alta Devices. I signed in, was welcomed, and then proceeded to meet with five different people at Alta, each for a half hour.

I'm on my way for my first internship interview. The interview its with Alta Devices for their Metrology Intern position. I'm exited to meet the employees, to be home this weekend, and to finally have my car to drive back to San Luis Obispo. Wish me luck!

I ran into a problem today: when trying to select my Windows 7 from the grub list, I accidentally selected the one right above it: "Windows Recovery Environment..." Unfortunately, this opens up a the Samsung Recovery 4 Solution software which overwrites something on the MBR, so that the next time you boot up, grub no longer loads. Luckily, I was able to solve the problem by installing Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (which I had downloaded recently and was needing to install anyway). Putting GRUB on a thumbdrive While it was installing, though, I did some research because it got me thinking: I should either remove that option from the list altogether, or have a quicker way to boot into one of my existing linux distros to quickly rewrite grub2 to the MBR. I liked the idea of the latter, so I attempted writing grub2 to a flash drive which will then be used to load an OS already on my hard drive.