It’s fascinating what you can control with an iPhone these days! (Fast-forward to 1:20 for the good bits.)

These are the things that are making me happy today:

Top Gear! – Top Gear is back on television! One of the best shows on TV anywhere, it started its new season last night. Really funny, and just lots of fun to watch.
This also allows me to bring up a HUGE pet peeve of [...]

I promise that I’ll post more on my first few days at Cambridge shortly. Suffice it to say that it’s been busy, fascinating, invigorating, but with hints of a typical English paperwork hell.
I just saw this video via the Times Online (the F1 blog) and had to share it. It’s a hilarious parody [...]

This weekend the Red Bull air races are taking place in London. Specifically, they’re racing over the River Thames with the Millenium Dome as a backdrop. I managed to catch some of their practice runs today. Unfortunately the only camera I had was on my iPhone (which is also how I’m writing this post!)
Cool stuff [...]

Congratulations to the University of Michigan Solar Car Team!  They just won the teams’ fifth national championship, beating thirteen other teams from Austin, TX to Calgary, Canada.  The team is the winningist team in the United States, having won five of the nine national championships.  This year’s margin was the biggest ever, just under ten [...]

Back at University I spent virtually all my time working on and leading the University of Michigan Solar Car Team. It was a fascinating experience, and I raced our cars across the US in Sunrayce 97 and Sunrayce 99, as well as across Australia in the World Solar Challenge 99. I wrote a [...]