Monday, March 04, 2002
Progresso, Florida
I find old maps
interesting. For instance, South Florida here used to be one entire
county—Dade with some lovely sounding towns that are for the most part, no
longer around. The upper portion of Dade (from 1895) there to the left
shows such places as Hillsboro (now just a street in Northern Broward),
Hypoluxo (now a street in Palm Beach County), Jewell (which no longer exists
as a town or a street as far as I know) and Progresso (which became Wilton
Manors).
I found these old maps at the Color Landform Atlas of the United States, which has more modern maps of the United States. I suppose the webmaster put these scans of an 1985 road atlas on the site, just because. I probably would have—they're very beautiful.
Office space
New space, new Computer Room. At Condo Conner, the Computer Room was a separate room in which I (and later Spring) stuffed all my (our) computers in. That was in 1994. Prior to that I had the home computers sharing my bedroom, and for now, it looks like the Computer Room at the Facility in the Middle of Nohwere is also the master bedroom as well.
Such is life.
The last work office I actually liked the most was my FAU
office I had in the Math
Department while I was a Computer Science undergrad working for a
professor and graduate student from Complex Systems and Brain Sciences. Yes,
quite the interdisciplinary work experience there and I had pretty much an
entire office to myself (officially, I shared it with two graduate students
who were almost never there). Black board, shelves of reference material, a
fold out bed and a couple of computers all to myself. My only complaint, and
it isn't much of one: no window, so it was easy to loose oneself in time.
I spent a good four years working out of that office, ostensibly part time (and at one tremendious rate for an undergrad) and loving nearly every minute of it. Ask me what I did though, and I couldn't tell you—heck, I didn't fully understand what I was working on there, just that it involved some heavy math and some light visualization work (one project took over a year to compute, and three days to transfer the images to video tape).
I don't think I will ever have an office quite like that again.
Droogish owl
Having just checked the Computer Science and Engineering Department of FAU for my previous entry and I see that they are still using that Clockwork Orange Owl mascot.
There must be a milk bar on campus somewhere …
