I realized that I never made a post about this so I figured that I should. This year at the Los Angeles robotics regional I won the Los Angeles “Dean’s List Finalist” award. It is the only award that FIRST robotics awards to individual students. Find out more about the award here. Also, I got [...]
Below is a video of me speaking at TED. I speak about half way through. Watch live streaming video from tedxsf at livestream.com (if you are viewing this on facebook you will likely have to go to my blog to see the video)
Wow… I am 18… kind of weird.
Dear Internet, I am writing you this letter to inform you that today I will be speaking at the TED event in San Francisco. I will be speaking around 7:30pm PST during the Pete Conrad Award speech. If you want to watch me live go to http://www.tedxsf.org. But you already knew that…being the Internet and [...]
Today Zune realised the new Zune 4.0 software. Here are my initial impressions…. (this is by no means a full review) I like: The new Zune mini player (Zune 1.0 had one and it was one of the best things about the program, but for some reason they got rid of it in Zune 2.o, [...]
UPDATE: The name “Schlossenburger” won! All right, so it has been a little over a week since my last post about my new car. As promised, below is a poll where you can vote on your favorite name for my new car. I picked my top 5 choices out of over 20 name ideas that [...]
The people who know me well will know that I used to drive an old 1993 Chrysler Plymouth grand voyager SE. Well it broke and thanks to the government we could get more money for it then it was worth, so today we took it to Glendale KIA (they were actually super nice and non-pressuring) [...]
As part of my summer internship I was given a G1 phone for the summer. Also, I recently was invited to the google voice beta. Naturally I wanted to use google voice on my G1 and thankfully google recently released a G1 app for voice. This guide will walk you through the setup process for [...]
I just made the source for the WebPage Downloader public, you can get it from http://naterocks.com/php-coding/webpage-downloader/.
Have you ever been online and wanted to download a webpage but didn’t want to use internet explorer’s or safari’s propritary formats? Well after about an hour of work I have created a solution… the WebPage Downloader. The WebPage Downloader will let you save files to your computer as DOC files and HTML files with or without [...]
Hal 9000(Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic Computer)…Microsoft’s Project NatalThey both track your body movements and use your voice. They both even can reconogise you… scary.
Wow, its been a while since I wrote something here. Lets see… Since my last post I have won 3rd place in the Pete Conrad spirit of innovation award and went to Atlanta for the FIRST robotics championships. The Conrad award was given out at the Conrad foundation’s innovation submit a few weeks ago. The [...]
If I were an active reader of this blog (which I am) then I would really want to take a look at http://www.conradawards.org/mast around 1pm PST tomorrow (which I will).
I finally set up my sister Barbara’s blog. It is located at http://thebarbara.com/ .
During the past few days you may have been thinking, “Why has Nate not made any new posts”. Well dear readers, I recently made the mistake of buying an Xbox 360 have spend much of my free time on it. Below is my gamer card. Put your gamertag here too.
About 3 weeks ago I got around to bulding a new computer for myself. I have yet to post its specs… that is until now: More details about my computer Component Details Subscore Base score Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz 5.6 5.6 Determined by lowest subscore Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB [...]
For the longest time the best online Hebrew translator was milon.co.il. Unfortunaly milon.co.il can only translate one word at a time. However it looks like Google Translator now works for Hebrew!!! Let the homework cheating help commence.
Over all I had a pretty good fast this year. I had pasta right before the fast and it seemed to do a good job of keeping me full. On Yom Kippur night I went to Beni David and about half way through the service I met a very important person. No it was not [...]
Did you know that Israel is not the only place where Jews self govern? There is region in Russia where Yiddish is an official language and judaism is taught in the public schools. This place is called the Jewish Autonomous Oblast and even though Jews now make up only about 1% of its population they once [...]
Wordle is this awsome website that I stumbled upon today via “Wired“. With it you can make word clouds of websites and text. It really neat, here is a wordle of naterocks.com (this site).