Tuesday

Nothing much new to report today; I stayed in the DIP Lab again and got some work done. I converted multiple folders of data for May using the IDL Workbench application so that they can be sent back to her, got some more images and data for my Lake Ponchartrain 3d modeling project, and had a brief but helpful meeting with Mike Gartley whose work I have to make a tutorial for. Everything is moving along at just the right pace for me to keep up and keep my sanity. On a funner note tomorrow we are having not only a field-trip but a volleyball tournament as well, I cant wait!

In the lab again

Yet another day spent in the DIP Lab, but good news; I found everyone! Sean and I hunted down May in her upstairs grad student office and she gave us some work converting/fixing images, and I ALSO got in touch with the man whose work Nina said I had to make a tutorial for! Despite the converting work being a slow, multi-hour babysitting process, at least we accomplished more today. I am so glad I finally got in touch with everyone (or at least most everyone) we had to meet. It might be corny but what was learned today? PERSEVERE!

Almost the weekend.... TGIF

Today was the first full day we spent on our own. There was no one hovering over our shoulders and we were each free to work on what needs to get done. I did a few Envi tutorials that involved more mapping and georefrancing, then went on to try and figure out more about my first 'milestone' (making a tutorial based on transferring map data from Envi to Blender) but quickly found I had no idea where to begin, and lastly went hunting on the internet for pictures of the causeway that could help my modeling. I also had time to look up a few Blender tutorials on youtube but they were not much good without headphones. Maybe I'll bring in my skullcandy ones on Monday. What was learned today? PEOPLE NEED TO CHECK THIER EMAIL MORE!

A very strange day

Today we got information as to what specific projects we are going to be working on this summer, and I am happy to report that I will be using Blender. My assignment is to make a Blender model of the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, which is apparently one of the longest bridges in the world. Before I get started though I have to get all the measurements and my plan is to set up some sort of scale between miles on the bridge and the background squares on Blender. Another milestone Nina has set before me is making a tutorial based on someone else's work. While I don't fully understand the task yet I am trying my best to unravel its mystery. It wont be easy but I always did love a challenge. ^^ There was also another challenge this afternoon which came to my in the form of my computer going nuts. This is where things got strange.

After restarting the computer and trying to get an official desktop which would allow my files to follow me anywhere on campus, then making one manually when nothing happened, everything got weird; I couldn't delete anything without 'admin permission' which was then denied once an actual admin came to help me, then I could not open the notes i had saved as a simple word document because apparently the application 'did not exist', and finally the new folders I was trying to create turned into random files that even stumped the IT people for a while. Every time I right clicked to make a new untitled folder a different file came instead. This continued to the point where I had 47 unknown and unusable files on my desktop. The bizarre thing was that when they file names were called up by the Unix command prompt, they all showed with the name 'unknown folder' followed by a number (a normal occurrence when you have multiple files with the same name). Finally though my computer was cured and I could resume work. What was learned today? ALWAYS LET THE COMPUTER MAKE ITS OWN DESKTOP!

Dia Dos

Once we finished our tour of the Remote Sensing department, the rest today was spent in the computer lab trying to unravel the mystery that is Envi; it's coming along well though. But we weren't outside in the 90+ degree weather today! The computer lab on the second floor is actually quite comfy.

1st day at the internship

Waaaaaaah, really really loathing stupid Macs right now. After our scavenger hunt I could have done the Dvd in about 15mins had it not been for frickin iMovie crashing FOUR TIMES! Windows Moviemaker is by far better. Besides that though the day was very fun; some of the items on the scavenger hunt were interesting (fountain) and it was relaxing to walk around campus. I also got to finally meet Dr. Raqueno and am looking forward to working with her more. On to the rest of the summer ^^