GSB Mennonite

Origami

While I am a few days behind the blog curve, I am intrigued with the possible outcome of the Origami rumors. The NYT has an article on it today. The 'official' site is here. Technorati has a number of links on the subject and this Mexican site has some supposed . screen shots (link from NetworkWorld) from a few hours ago. This is the complete clip... Looks pretty cool.

Snow Cross

I think snowboarding cross is the coolest new sport in the Winter Olympics. It almost makes me want to get into snowboarding. :)

Recent Books

I thought I should post on some recent books.

First, a historical academic book Castles - Their Construction and History by Sidney Toy originally published in 1939. The book was a slow but intriguing read. It has rather dry text on history and castle architectural elements but also contains a few good old pictures and original layout drawings from the author - 199 illustrations. A great picture book which I saw while finding the link is Castle by David Macaulay.

Second, an easy read with great stories and examples from Philip Yancy: Rumors of Another World. The book discusses the various areas of life that provide us with rumors of another world, the rumors of a life beyond the physical.

VCIC

I'm in the basement of the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado at Boulder. We've been here working away since 5:30 pm when our VCIC team finished up the Q&A with entrepreneurs. Thus far it has been a lot of fun and not a lot of sleep. :)

Oh and we have code names so entrepreneurs and judges don't know which schools we're from.

Here's a shot of the campus with an x marks the spot in the bottom left of our location. Note that isn't not green here; it's white. Nice fresh snow last night.

MSN TV

I've continued to play with Media Center 2005 and my cable service. I've also been playing with MSN TV's scheduling service - called MSN Remote Record Service, which allows me to schedule from MSN any recording on the Media Center PC at home.

The only issue I have currently is that I'm not running the PC into the tv, since the PC is fairly outdated, so my recording and set-top box is jerry-rigged. The DVR-MS files are good quality, but huge. And I can't use Windows Movie Maker to edit the files. Hopefully this will be better integrated with Vista.

Midterms

Next week are midterms. I've been enjoying the classes this quarter, especially the Murphy/Becker/Snyder class and Managerial Decision Making. Lots of interesting ideas to discuss and think about in MDM. I really don't like midterms. I certainly won't miss tests...I must prefer projects and papers than tests. :)

Dinner

Tuesday evening the recruiters came back into town; it's always fun to get to hang out again and catch up. We had a lot of sushi at SushiSamba Rio and also caused the restaurant to run out of mint...as in mojitos. :)