Progress

Saturday, October 01 2005

It's been a slow week or two now that I've finished working for JPL, and the urgency of finding work definitely got knocked up a notch or two as that came to an end. Happily, things fell into place in a pretty timely manner. Not more than a week after I got to New York I heard about the R&D Fellowship at Eyebeam. Yesterday I finally found out that I had been accepted for one of the three positions for 2005-2006. So, for the next year I'll be working with some bright engineers/designers/artists/scientists with the hopes of creating something cool that is also open and publicly distributable (beit software or hardware -- or both). At least that's the plan as I understand it. That starts November first, so I've got a little more time off here in New York to hang out and enjoy myself. I feel like I've been here forever already, but it hasn't even been three months yet, weird.

I'm finally getting a little car nostalgic. I'm not pining for any kind of traffic or commute crap, the train's just fine with me, I just wish I could take a nice long drive. I'm imagining driving up to Vermont maybe or out to Colorado even. I just wish I could drive out to Colorado via the Pacific Northwest (I've seen the midwest enough), that'd be the coolest. I think that it's less than realistic though.

One more bit o' info, I made another post over at TreeHugger on investing in green/alternative energy. I'd never heard of the ETF (PBW) until yesterday, but it seems like the best way (at least that I've seen) to buy a bunch of good clean energy companies. Thus the post.