http://kevincathey.com Code. Photos. Excerpts from the life of an engineer. Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:33:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The other night I saw Transformers with the roomies. It was that or Lord of War, and having never seen Transformers, I thought I would give it a shot. For those of you who have no idea what the movie is about, it basically tells the story of two futuristic ... http://kevincathey.com/movies/movie-review-transformers/ I usually do not do reviews of hardware, but in this case, I feel the urge to. For my apartment, I purchased the Apple Time Capsule, which is an Airport Extreme Base Station (wireless router) with a 500 GB for backing up. So, let's start with the wireless router. Setting it ... http://kevincathey.com/technology/review-apple-time-capsule/ As I've mentioned in previous entries, the first phase of the Apollo Simulation Project involves research and modeling. Research of the spacecraft and modeling the launch, orbit, and re-entry of said spacecraft. The latter part requires quite the extensive amount of mathematics, involving many advanced topics on the broader topic ... http://kevincathey.com/space/an-astrophysicists-jackpot/ Last night (this morning) at 12:01, I went and saw Wall•e, the latest addition to Pixar's family of animated features. To saw the least, it was amazing. The story was very clever (written of course by Andrew Stanton and Pete Docter), and made the idea of "robot emotion" seem feasible. ... http://kevincathey.com/movies/movie-review-walle/ Over the last few days, I have been collecting material to start phase 1 of the Apollo Simulation Project (I think I need a better name...), which is the research phase. I found a bunch of high-res flight manuals and flight plans, which I had printed at Kinkos. They are ... http://kevincathey.com/space/the-apollo-simulation-project-begins/ I just put up pictures on the Photos page for Leslie's and I's biking stint in Chicago and my roommates' and I's adventure to Stanford University. Check them out! http://kevincathey.com/pictures/new-pictures-up/ Though many of you would claim that I've been a nerd for a long time, of which claim I will not dispute, I think yesterday I officially inducted myself into nerd-dom. I was reading the Saturn V rocket manual, and I wanted to know a little bit more about the ... http://kevincathey.com/space/officially-a-nerd-i-edited-wikipedia/ I've always been a space nerd, and I've always been a computer nerd. Well, now I am going to combine both. I have recently just become completely overcome by my passion for space, and so starting a few days ago, I began planning to build a real-life Apollo spacecraft and ... http://kevincathey.com/space/im-going-to-build-it/ Last Sunday, I arrived back in Cupertino, CA, for another summer internship at Apple. Since arriving, it has been quite the whirlwind of activity (hence the fact that I have been unable to put up a blog post). This summer, I am working on the same team at Apple, Interface Builder, ... http://kevincathey.com/interface-builder/back-in-the-bay/ A strange thing happened today when I went to check Facebook. I got this nice friendly screen everytime I tried to open it: Basically it means that Facebook is "down". This is most likely attributed to total server overload due to all of the middle school munchkins coming home from school ... http://kevincathey.com/technology/facebook-outages/