06.23
It is hotter here than in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. I have spent the day on acedemicearth.org watching lectures from Yale on game theory. I read a few books about it, but never went to far into it. I never spent time working out the math. It is so hot I don’t want to do anything. Tomorrow I am going to uptown and out to ax-man surplus. I have a few projects I want to get started so I might actually get through one. They mostly focus on making LEDs blink. Ax-man will provide inspiration and supplies.
At some points I felt like I was leading an insurrection. In reality it was just a warming and a stirring of the pot. KAUST has asked me to fill out all sorts of wierd forms and surveys about learning styles and watersport preference. Then a week ago or so we were asked to authorize a background check for the sole purpose of confirming our degrees and looking into our police record. The police record search was redundant since we were already sending in state police records. I try to read what I sign, so I read what I was giving them access to “information as to my character, general reputation, personal characteristic, mode of living, and work habits.” I thought this was a bit much and asked for an alternative way to confirm things. They sent me back an email within a day (prompt for KAUST) saying they got a new form made, but will not give them to us, maybe. They have yet to get back to me. I sent a KAUSTbook message to all the US students going first year.