Wayne and Rebecca Madsen

DOORS: Do not allow closed doors in any room. To get a door opened, stand on hind legs and hammer with forepaws. Once door is opened, it is not necessary to use it. After you have ordered an "outside" door opened, stand halfway in and halfway out and think about several things. This is particularly important during very cold weather, rain or snow storms, or mosquito season. Swinging doors are to be avoided at all costs.  read more »

This week was the New Zealand show from start to finish. The students from Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi, an all Maori University in New Zealand, arrived late Sunday night. Monday they made the poor jet-lagged students and faculty wake up bright and early to help put up the show. They were so sleepy. And they kept commenting on how hot it was. Monday evening was a barbeque dinner, which I got to go to as well. It was funny to hear the Maori students keep talking about how everything in America is so big (from the mountains to the hamburgers).  read more »

On her way to her TA hours on Monday, a flyer posted on the wall of the Talmage building caught Rebecca's eye. It said "Want to play with robots?" Before even noticing that it payed $10 dollars for one hour's worth of play, she immediately knew that I would love to play with robots. We found the research group and signed up to play with the robot, and it was a blast. Their research group was putting together a paper on human-robot interaction for a conference (one of Rebecca's professors this semester is on the chair for the conference).  read more »

Well, Wayne jumped the gun and already posted some things about last week. Oh well, makes my job easier, right?  read more »

We're number one! We're number one!

Okay. Maybe not number uno, but if you go to google and type in: "Wayne and Rebecca Madsen" into their search engine, without quotes, you get our website as the top ranked site. How cool!

Also, if you go type in just "Wayne Madsen", sans quotes, our website is like sixth on the list. We're moving up in the world!

Back to school. The first week of school is always the slowest. Maybe it's because all the teachers are waiting for students to figure out their schedules. Maybe it's because we haven't figured out how to fill our time yet with school projects so all our time feels so empty. Maybe it's because most of our free time is spent doing errands, but this week was slow, despite how much we got done.  read more »

We made it safely to Utah, and with some good help Wednesday we got our stuff all moved in. Thursday we got halfway unpacked, and we finished up most of the rest of the unpacking lazily on Saturday. Unpacking and settling in has gone quicker and quicker each time we move. Maybe we should move more often and see if we can get it all done in one day. Hehehe. Or maybe we should just stay put for a year already. :)  read more »

Boy will we be glad to go back to Utah and have a consistent internet
connection at home! Until then, Wayne found his way to the downtown library, which has free internet but expensive parking. We looked up places with free internet and cheap parking, so he might be able to try those out this week when he needs to research installation project ideas. But he's also started another huge painting, so we'll see how much mischief he has time for.  read more »