Sorry for the long silence. Starting this semester has been rather hectic keeping up with everything. This week I had three labs due, so I've been pretty busy. Anyhow, here's just a few random thoughts and info for you all to ponder.

I'm working on adding some new features to the website. While these features are still incomplete, here's a little bit of what you have to look forward to:

• I'm adding wordles to past surveys. It doesn't make sense for all of them, but if you browse through, you'll find some of them that have them. Not all of them are that cool, but they're fun to look at.
• I plan to add a search feature. Maybe not that important, but it should be rather cool to use. Finding Wilbert will be easier than ever!
• Hopefully soon, I'll add threaded comments. Then, you can reply to someone's comment and have it show up that way, instead of just one line of comments.
• It's planned far into the future, but I want to add multiple themes to my website. By clicking a button, you can see my website with a totally different design! It'll be pretty cool.

Grad school has been interesting. I really like parts of it, but other parts are a bit difficult. There's a lot of reading papers, which can get to be a bit tedious and boring. I've definitely read more exciting things. The classes are pretty awesome though. It's less "this is how you do something" and more "lets work together to learn and see if we can come up with something better." The classes are flexible, but very thought provoking. I work just as hard in them, but I feel like I've accomplished more. In my research lab, we're working on a project called Internet Television. The idea is that since the Internet is becoming even more prevalent, why not switch our TV to our broadband connections, and make watching TV a little more like browsing the web? Examples are: Imagine watching your favorite sports show and being able to review cool events, watch from different camera angles, etc. Or, imagine watching a cooking show, and being able to click a button and see how they created that amazing side dish they just pulled out of nowhere. Imagine watching news and being able to pick just the stories that interest you. Fascinating idea huh? It's like a DVR/TiVo on steroids!

Today be International Talk Like a Pirate Day! Arrrrh! What be a pirate's favorite state? Arrrrrrrkansas! What be a pirate's favorite subject in school? Arrrrrithmetic! (or p'haps Arrrrrt!) What be a pirates' favorite kind o' movie? Rrrrrrr rated! Alright ye scurvey knaves, lets see if ye can come up with better jokes than I can.

So I finally put up pictures from my Havasupai trip! You can see them here. I'm sorry they're not the best pictures. My camera started to die at the beginning of the trip, as evidenced by the ugly black spot on the bottom of all the pictures.

These are not all the pictures, more are forthcoming, once I get the pictures my brothers took as well.

OK so I cut this video together quick from what I filmed down in Havasupai. Hope you like it!

The good news:
I just found out that I was accepted to grad school at BYU! Hooray!

The shameful news:
I updated my facebook status with this news before I updated my website... SHAME!!!

It's only gonna be up for one more day, check it out!