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God Grew Tired of Us; The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan

Amazing documentary about the Lost Boys of Sudan.

They were refugees from Sudan living in a camp for 10 years.

They get some kind of aid from the States and get integrated.

They had never seen electricity!

Now they are working here legaly and sending money back – helping the ones left behind

They were a bunch of kids from 5 to 15 years old when they left Sudan

There were 27,000 of them.

They walked 1000 miles

12,000 arrived.

Then lived in one camp for 2 years,

Walked another 700 miles I think to another camp where they stayed for 10 years

There is a ton happening in world that people don’t want to know about.

First day of classes

Good to be back and feel the creative, innovative, and diverse energy all the students have in this program.

First class – Ubiquitous Computing for Mobile Devices

Basically going to look at what is common amongst the majority of the phones out there and develop using the lowest common denominator to start off with.

Going to be interesting to learn how to do a lot of the things I have in the past told my programmers to figure out…

Also going to be interesting because I will be able to input a lot of information about the technology that I know about from the carrier’s side as well as from the user’s perspective…

Happy to get it started again… sure going to miss going to school when this is over…

Back at Morton

Apt is aok… funilly enough I ran the thought of what could have gone wrong during my absence…

In any case, back to my routine of cleaning up the computer and orgranizing photos and videos.

Weather is unbelievably mild… 12 degrees yesterday and 5 today – supposed to freeze on Wed…

Excited for the next semester but again with no real expectations…

Have to start thinking about a greater intention or motivation in my work… artistically, conceptually, spiritually, politically… something that would be a north, objective, goal, guide….

But maybe my strength lies not on creation but on development, refinements, enhancements, problem solving and so on…

So then again I have to decide which area I would work on a daily basis…

Some kind of multimedia consultant for intelligent houses… general problem solver for high-end entertainment/media systems… educational route? Teaching or opening up my own course?

Have to think of something quick if I want to start looking for an internship over the summer…

Hum… .