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Michael

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About Me

I am originally from Pullman, WA where I went to elementary, middle, high school, and WSU. Now I have moved to Champaign and am working on my graduate research here at Univeristy of Illinois in quantum cryptography.

My Blog

Conference/Basketball/Canada/Wreck

So I just got back from my conference in Rochester NY and the week of touring labs in Canada that followed. It was a pretty fun conference, the International Quantum Computing conference for 3 days an...
Posted by Michael on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 02:47:00 PST

School

So a regular loose butthole load of stuff has been going on at school lately. I got a fulltime research assistantship with this rad physics professor Dr. Kwiat, and the guy is a genius. He's also a st...
Posted by Michael on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:48:00 PST

White Trash Party + Halloween Party

So, as you can see from the picture in my profile we had our white trash party a few weekends ago. I haven't written about it yet, but it was pretty sweet. Mallory had a baby... we called it Jethro.. ...
Posted by Michael on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 07:35:00 PST

Rockstar Party + My B-day

So I turned 26 recently, which is pretty freakin' old. Anyways me and my four awesome roommates Lindsay, Mallory, Jessie, and Tida went down to Murphys where I got promptly intoxicated. It was a good ...
Posted by Michael on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:22:00 PST

Crazy Gas Station Story .1

So there's this gas station near where I live on University and 6th I believe. I walk in, I'm buying candy and a polar pop, and there's like 7 people in line. One of them asks how tall I am, I'm like ...
Posted by Michael on Tue, 01 Aug 2006 09:30:00 PST

Burglary, lol

So I was sleeping this morning, at around 8:30 am when the noise of someone trying to get into my front door lock woke me. I didn't move for around 15 seconds while they fiddled with the lock and the...
Posted by Michael on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 07:30:00 PST

Schoool's starting!

Well summer session has officially started. It looks to be an interesting one. The first two weeks of teaching kind of suck as we have like six lab sections to do per week, which is basically staying ...
Posted by Michael on Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:54:00 PST

Elsie (1991-2006)

Well it happened as I thought it would. After last night I laid with her for most of the night. She woke up this morning and couldn't even lift her head. I picked her up and tried to help her outside ...
Posted by Michael on Sun, 04 Jun 2006 09:04:00 PST

Elsie

My dog Elsie is 14 1/2 years old. I got her when I was around 11-12 years old and she has pretty much been my best friend all this time. Recently she has been not eating and so we hold her and hand fe...
Posted by Michael on Sat, 03 Jun 2006 09:26:00 PST

Chelan

Just got back from Chelan with Chris Coons and Danielle. I had an absolute blast, thanks to everyone who was there and went out with us. Chris I think you have my white jacket thing, because I think I...
Posted by Michael on Tue, 30 May 2006 10:11:00 PST