THE JO-TEL …believes some of what Nathaniel and John say, but believes England is still our sovreign

If I can get off of my ass and initiate the graduate school application process, I’m going to, well, go to graduate school. I’ve been thinking about what I should study while there. This morning was a particular morning of thinking as I was up early, had a large coffee seeping into my blood stream and I had a half hour walk to work. My thought process was like this:

1) It would be pretty cool to go back to school to learn computer science, but based on my current background (job and school and whatnot) I would have a better chance of getting into architecture.

2) Then I sort of wondered: if a computer scientist were to build a building, what would it look like?

3) Then I thought, well, computer science and electrical engineering are pretty closely related, electrical engineers are typically responsible for engineering the smallest human manufactured goods (I know there is a bio-engineering argument somewhere here), and architects are responsible for designing the largest human structures (ok, so structural engineers are really the engineers behind these, but I don’t want to be a structural engineer, wah) what if one were to get a dual grad degree in electrical engineering and architecture?

4) How would someone typically responsible for engineering the smallest things approach the design of the largest?

5) Then I got to thinking well, if I’m looking at the largest and smallest, then how would a quantum physicist approach the design of a building?

I mean wouldn’t it be awesome to be considered a mad scientist architect? It would be pretty funny to claim that you’ve designed a building in order to optimize the occurrence of quantum entanglement. You could design a building along central park with a tungsten core in order to create a metaphysical bridge between Sumer, Land of Gozer

Gozer the Traveler
Gozer the Destructor
Gozer the Gozarian

Well, it could be pretty funny.
That wasn’t very funny. This is supposed to be a funny blog.
Damn the writers of Ghostbusters were really good at creating wackjob sounding names.

Speaking of particle physics I was really disappointed to hear that the Large Hadron Collider wasn’t going online until September. The LHC is currently the largest machine ever built. Its a partical accelerator that is miles in diameter and is designed to smash particles together with a lot of energy in the hopes of discovering the next layer of particles, hopefully the Higgs-Boson. This is sort of one of the most interesting summers for mankind in a while. I mean we verified water on mars.

I know I don’t have the larger Jo-Tel support on this but I thought it would be pretty funny to have a LHC Startup costume party. Everybody would dress up as their favorite subatomic particle. We would drink lots of beer, because I’d bet that beer has a lot of Higgs-Boson particles in it… lots. Then maybe at the end of the party the fabled Higgs-Boson particle would make an appearance and bring everybody toys and good cheer.