For those of you that don’t know, I’ve been employed part-time at an optics company (well, they do more than just make lenses.  They actually make machines for making lenses as well as sell software.  That’s where I come in.  I’ve been working on software for the manufacturing of Aspheric lenses.

The Aspheric lenses I am referring to are not the kind you get in your Nikon kit lens, or even the large format Rodenstock or Schneider lenses, but the kind that go into aircraft, or the ones that are several inches in diameter that are used in some of the best “amateur” telescopes that cost tens of thousands of dollars.

Anyways, it’s a really cool process how they’re cut and polished.  Each lens taking lots of time to rough, polish, and finish the edges.

I have my camera so I will take pictures of the process and post them.

Well, it looks like I am (hopefully) going to Germany for five months next year in Osnabrück. It also looks like I will finish my RIT education there  if I take classes this spring as well.  Gonna be great.  I wonder how I will get all my photo gear to Germany… and the stuff I actually need.

I think I have decided which area of computer science I would like to concentrate in finally.  Vision and AI.  Mmm.. Functional Languages.  I’m not sure if I want to do the human side or the computer side of it.  I think they complement each other which ever path I choose.  Ooh, I need to get my GPA up so I can apply to grad school for Color Science.   Yeah, color science is great.

The school at University of Osnabrück I will be studying at is Cognitive Science, not Computer Science, so that will be a nice change of things.  I’m getting all the low level stuff out of my system this quarter :D.

Oh, I struck out with Microsoft :(  They want me to interview in the spring again for the same position because I was really close apparently.

Wee so much work.  I have to finish all my prints for the Southwest trip relatively soon, else I am fucked.

I’m really disgusted with a lot of people I know.  Everybody is so afraid to do anything remotely adventurous.  All these people I know are co-oping at RIT when they could be getting a job across the country, or just settling for a job in Rochester when they graduate.  I can’t believe people would stay in the dorms after their first or even second year.  I mean maybe I don’t have ambition as far as getting a 4.0 goes, but I certainly don’t want to stay.  Grrr… people.  I need some more adventurous friends.  </rant>  I need to get an internship on the West Coast so I have an excuse to drive cross country by myself.

Oh, and I’m also annoyed that my posts have digressed into non-technical crap.  Sorry, I hate myself for it too