djcapelis (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} djcapelis) wrote,@ 2009-06-28 00:15:00 |
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So I moved to Princeton
Most of you know that I recently moved to Princeton, New Jersey for the summer. As a native Californian who generally expects all other states to be completely inferior in every way, (not really) I didn't relish the thought of moving, to of all places, New Jersey. Yet my lack of relish was misplaced. While Princeton isn't exactly the most happening place in the world, it certainly looks like it will be a nice place to spend the summer. Instead of desperate urban hellscape that New Jersey's reputation would lead you to believe, Princeton is instead a nice quiet little town that really if anything, is too nice.
For those of you who don't believe, here's some photos of Princeton, you can see for yourselves: http://www.flickr.com/photos/39879310@N
As for why I'm here, I'm working at Fraser Research, which is a small little research firm redesigning the Internet. It's a project that has been going on for quite a few years now and is slowly getting nearer to completion. The design is interesting and may or may not ever see the light of day, but either way ends up being an nifty project to work on. Some pieces of the design are influenced by some of the work that was done at Bell Labs, as that's Sandy's old stomping grounds. Various pieces take into consideration things that usually are never thought about, so those parts end up being fairly fascinating. Overall, I think it should be a fun summer.
On another topic, due to an amusing set of circumstances other than myself, every last person currently at Fraser is British or an ex-Brit. The other three students are from Cambridge and Sandy and his wife both crossed the pond quite a bit back. It's a bit of an odd experience: I traveled to New Jersey and ended up surrounded by British people, which seems amusing enough to note. The bottom line seems to have been that my active vocabulary has shifted to use words like "bugger" much more often than I really expected.
For those of you who don't really care to go through the full stream of pictures I linked to above, here's a few links into the middle of the stream where you can see something more specific:
Pictures of the office: http://www.flickr.com/photos/39879310@N
Pictures of the house: http://www.flickr.com/photos/39879310@N
Oh, also: Tomorrow I visit Manhattan. Perhaps more pictures then.
Most of you know that I recently moved to Princeton, New Jersey for the summer. As a native Californian who generally expects all other states to be completely inferior in every way, (not really) I didn't relish the thought of moving, to of all places, New Jersey. Yet my lack of relish was misplaced. While Princeton isn't exactly the most happening place in the world, it certainly looks like it will be a nice place to spend the summer. Instead of desperate urban hellscape that New Jersey's reputation would lead you to believe, Princeton is instead a nice quiet little town that really if anything, is too nice.
For those of you who don't believe, here's some photos of Princeton, you can see for yourselves: http://www.flickr.com/photos/39879310@N
As for why I'm here, I'm working at Fraser Research, which is a small little research firm redesigning the Internet. It's a project that has been going on for quite a few years now and is slowly getting nearer to completion. The design is interesting and may or may not ever see the light of day, but either way ends up being an nifty project to work on. Some pieces of the design are influenced by some of the work that was done at Bell Labs, as that's Sandy's old stomping grounds. Various pieces take into consideration things that usually are never thought about, so those parts end up being fairly fascinating. Overall, I think it should be a fun summer.
On another topic, due to an amusing set of circumstances other than myself, every last person currently at Fraser is British or an ex-Brit. The other three students are from Cambridge and Sandy and his wife both crossed the pond quite a bit back. It's a bit of an odd experience: I traveled to New Jersey and ended up surrounded by British people, which seems amusing enough to note. The bottom line seems to have been that my active vocabulary has shifted to use words like "bugger" much more often than I really expected.
For those of you who don't really care to go through the full stream of pictures I linked to above, here's a few links into the middle of the stream where you can see something more specific:
Pictures of the office: http://www.flickr.com/photos/39879310@N
Pictures of the house: http://www.flickr.com/photos/39879310@N
Oh, also: Tomorrow I visit Manhattan. Perhaps more pictures then.
