All posts by ehilge
Slow is steady
Driving a Mars rover takes something of a unique mindset. There are the technical skills of course, but I found a big part of my training was learning how to operate in high-stress environments. It’s not uncommon for a room full of colleagues to be waiting on you to figure something out, and if you…
Timshel
Sometimes I read books for an entertaining story, other times to gain factual knowledge, and only rarely because the book reveals something significant about the human condition. “East of Eden” by John Steinbeck falls into the final category. The semi-biographical work is essentially an exploration of free will in the context of good vs evil…
Selenography
I’m a very topographically inclined person. I enjoy staring at maps, I have a strong memory for where events happen in a geographic sense, and it bothers me if I’m unsure which direction north is while walking down the street. I’m also an amateur astronomer and have been so nearly as long as I can…
Hello World
It seems appropriate to leave my initial “Hello World” post here. The phrase It reminds me of my freshman year of undergraduate when I had to pick a coding class to take. We were given two options: MatLab or Fortran. Not knowing any better I signed up for Fortran because it fit better in my…