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Tidbits

Posted on March 21, 2010 by Natan Yellin in Life

  • I won 5th place in the Robonir Firefighting Robotics contest a few weeks ago. On April 11th, I’ll be competing in the international finals with the rest of the Israeli team at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.
  • This week I participated in the Safe Cracking Physics Contest at the Weizmann Institute and my team took 2nd place internationally and 1st place out of the Israeli teams. I had fun meeting members of the Canadian and Slovenian team and going out in Rehovot.
  • Figured out today that pressurized Butane/Propane can be used to read unopened letters by spraying the envelopes until they’re wet and transparent. It dries almost immediately leaving absolutely no trace.
  • Just saw the Zeitgeist talk proposal for GUADEC. Are we already at that time of year? Reading over the proposal gave me nostalgia. Maybe I’ll have time to be more involved after the Trinity robotics contest.
  • Been thinking about plans for the future lately and I’m leaning away from computer science and towards engineering. Not sure if/how that changes my plans for the near future.