So… A new semester? A new year?

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sup internet

so here’s what’s up:

- I’m in Seattle interning at Microsoft
- I’m an electrical engineering Concordia graduate
- I’m doing my MS next year, and the project will be the inverse of my Capstone final year project
- I finished my Capstone final year project – which was a robot that reads a sheet of music and plays it on the piano
- I live in Belltown.
- I start work tomorrow
- I’m in a new team with a new boss (at microsoft)

I’ll post a lot more details, regarding the color run, my apartment, etc…

Just so you know, this blog is about adventures… and right now, ADVENTURE IS OUT THERE!

Bothoven needs fingers

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So my music-reading-piano-playing robot called Bothoven needs fingers. He can now read music, and wants to play!

Here’s a picture of what we have so far (and yes, it’s enough for a blog post):

What this means is that we can digitally get the notes, read them, know what they mean and it’s time to play them. The way to read this is “NoteOctave-Duration”. If you can read notes, the black and white writing corresponds to the sheet of music.

Maybe I should add that he can read a whole page at a time…

Time to build some fingers!

Queen Extravaganza

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OMG OMG OMG!

This is the best way to sum up how good the concert was. No words I can type will ever describe how ecstatic I was that night. Some pictures do, but I’ve hidden them really well in that album!

There’s two things I WILL allow myself to say about that concert:
1) If you missed it, YOU SHOULD TRY GOING!
2) If you feel like you missed out on seeing Freddie Mercury live, this was as close as it cold get. Ever.

It was by far the best concert I ever went to. Nothing more to say. I was crying most of the time, just basking in the glory Queen left behind, what Brian and Robert put together, and how much it was nice seeing Marc Martel on stage.

Enjoy this, while remembering that Marc is NOT trying to impersonate Freddie, that’s his normal voice. The band is also amazing.


You should try and catch them.

I haven’t done this in a while…

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Hey guys!

Wow, I completely forgot about the blog! Well, that’s not entirely true… I’ve just been overwhelmed by everything going on, that I kind of lost track of what to post and getting the pictures from my phone!

So 4th of July was a lot of fun! With just a dash of propaganda and a lot of patriotism, ‘Murrica was enjoying its day off! Also, I had fun watching Epic Meal Time being stupid again.

Honestly I’m not sure what to talk about. Everything that’s happening right now to me is life changing: this is my first internship, first (legit) time in the States, meeting lots of people, potential full-time job here, everyday work-life… It’s all changing so fast! If this were a movie, the tagline would probably be something along the lines of “One adventure that changed their lives; Created friends, broke hearts, and made men”. It means we’re grown ups now…


I don’t think so.

I think I’ll always have that kid in me, always ready to burst out in song and enjoy the little things in life. And I’m kind of glad I do.

Shit, that tagline sucks balls…

In other news, I went to a huge electronic festival a few weeks back called Paradiso Festival at The Gorge. Apparently, the Gorge is the best venue in North America for concerts and whatnot. And it was OFF THE HOOK! People were crazy, the weather was awesome, and the music… ORGASMIC! I have a new-found interest for brutal dirty violent dubstep, Excision style.

OMG HOW DID I MISS THIS! QUEEN EXTRAVAGANZA! Next post, I swear!

What else has been going on… Oh yeah, I rented a Mustang for a weekend and got pulled over by the cops! Long story short, they heard a roaring engine and decided to pin the Mustang… How racist! They pulled out from where they were and started following me without turning the siren/lights on. I noticed them, so I was driving as “normal” as possible. 30 seconds later they turned on the lights and pulled me over. License and registration, checking the plates, and making me wait for realizing what I had done something wrong. Or something. They can’t give me a ticket because they heard an engine roar.

That’s all I remember right now… Next up: Queen Extravaganza!

May the force be with you, as usual…
//Michael