Luke Oliver

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130: I say Yikes a lot in these titles

I'm writing this post at the ripe old hour of 1:42 AM. I shouldn't be up. But I am. I did spend a bunch of that time doing something I was planning on doing anyways; I had a good idea for upgrading one of my

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129: SequoiaGiving

I'm writing this partway into my second consecutive shift, and it's not that bad, but it did limit my movement today pretty significantly. I didn't get to go get dinner, so I really only ate like 1.5 meals today, but that's

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128: Massive Yikes

I think this is the third post in a row that I'm writing past 2 AM, so I'm going to keep this one short, AGAIN.

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127: This bad boy can fit so many shitty JPEGs in it

The title today is about my tiny point-and-shoot camera, which I'm going to start carrying around. It's terrible (the photo above is one of the few good ones from today), but it brings me joy, and I can never carry around my big camera, so hopefully

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126: PMO

PMO is modern vernacular, short for "Pissing Me Off", or sometimes in past tense, "Piss(ed) Me Off". I had something PMO today, because my electric skateboard is broken until further notice. I learned this this morning, when I went to ride it to Wind Power,

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125: "what is it? fray-eese? -Professor Ahlgren

Ahlgren was yapping today about nothing, when he mentioned the Biot-Savare law, which is one of the laws we are using in his class. The Biot-Savare law has to do with electromagnetics of current in a wire, but the important part for this story is that the two old guys

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124: Troubleshooting Jail

I'm writing this significantly later than I wanted to (it's 11PM) because my 3D printer decided it was going to throw a fit today. It is partially my fault, and somewhat of a long-running problem that I just reaggravated, but I didn't wanna :( The

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123: Oh yeah, it's all coming together.

The title is a reference to one of the best movies of all time, The Emperor's New Groove. I'm using it in this case in reference to my schedule. I talked to my Italian professor today, because she's also the overseer for the minor,

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122: Another day, Another shift.

I'm on call again tonight, as I write this, but it's a Sunday night, so it should be pretty chill. It got really pretty and foggy again tonight, so I just went out and took some pictures, even though it's kinda late, and it

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121: Smash!

Today (by which I mean the contiguous conscious experience, not the calendar day) was pretty good. I don't count my days by the calendar for the purposes of this blog, because that would get messy. I frequently end up writing and posting these after the stroke of midnight,

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120: The Scooby Gang (Luke and Brandon) Are On The Case! (on call)

Dude, yikes. It's 2:30 AM as I write this, and the walks tonight have not gone very well. We had a resident that needed transport (drank too much, had to go hospital) at like midnight, and then an alcohol violation (bro opened his door for a noise

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119: Birtday!

I had a funny idea for a title I was going to use today, but I fully don't remember what it was. I remember opening my notes app to write it down, and then... not writing it down. That's okay though, because I kinda get a

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118: "Hell, You don't need me anymore, AI has all you need"

This is a quote from my EE335 professor, who is literally older than computers, and definitely doesn't understand how LLMs work. The leadup to the quote was him telling us to put a complex electromagnetics integral into ChatGPT. I feel like I'm getting gaslit every time

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117: So many balls in the air

I'm going to break pattern a little bit and put people in my title photo 🤯. I have been on the fence about it for a good long while, and I still am. It nicely encapsulates the weird knot of privacy vs access for this blog of mine. The

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116: Feesh

Feesh. This is a photo of the little creek in downtown San Luis Obispo. There are feesh in it.

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115: "Lock-in Sunday catching us all bruh"

The title of this one is something I heard one of the Santa Lucia residents saying today, and I thought it was great. "Lock-in Sunday" is definitely a term describing the effect of end-of-weekend deadlines and preparations for class that get conveniently ignored on Friday and Saturday (because

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114: A Toothless Blade

I got started on my carbon deck today! After the Wind Power workday, I went to the Hangar, partially to see if a part we just had 3D-printed worked (it didn't, womp womp, we'll print another w/ the changes), but also so that I could get

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113: "The Early Bird Just Gets Tired Earlier"

This is a quote from Our Beloved Summer, the K-drama that I've been re-watching with a few of my residents. It's a really long show, and very dramatic, but I watched it last year, and with the setup in my room, it's quite good.

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112: "No, stop, you're doing the lab too effectively"

The title of this post is about an interaction I had with my lab professor today in 346. It was ridiculous. We were going about doing the lab, and I had the idea to employ our tools in a specific way that would allow us to collect our data in

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111: This table has all 6 degrees of freedom

This title is a funny one, and is about a table I was using in The Lounge (study space) today. The six degrees of freedom are the 3 translate directions (x,y,z), and then the 3 axis of rotation (pitch, roll, yaw [or that's what they'

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110: Interesting titles are for schmucks

I can't think of anything interesting to title this, so I gave it a stupid meta-title instead, because it works as a band-aid solution. I am going to eventually run out of meta-titles, but honestly that's okay. Today was pretty good! When you don't

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109: "That's Badass, man!"

Read the title in Jeff Bridges' voice, for the TRON reference, and because that's totally something he would say. It's something that was said to me today, while I was skating my big carbon fiber slab over to the shops. There was a professor (I

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108: New Music falling from the sky

I am a huge fan of finding new releases by artists I like, or discovering new artists and albums I haven't listened to before. My listening style is very album-based, I listen to albums all the way through, in order, as god intended (no hate on playlist people,

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107: Still no more damn pictures.

Today was pretty good, though as the title says, I still don't have any new pictures to share. I didn't end up going downtown yesterday, and I was too busy doing a bunch of other stuff today to get that done. I'm writing this

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106: I can, yes, but will I? No.

Today was all over the damn place, but in a good way. I've taken to describing my current life situation as "having too many balls in the air", meaning I simply am doing far too many things at the same time, juggling them, and failing (not