What’s Up with Paul Oppenheim

Awesome sauce comes to town. I was reading engadget (as I am wont to do) and I caught this: the iPaul. Apropos, it’s a car audio amplifier. The day is mine! Shame I don’t need one in my Vibe which has a 200 Watt sound system so potent that I can only assume it is slowly making me deaf.

Hi everyone!

I’m moving to San Francisco this weekend with my roommate Sean, and I need some help. Last time I moved I didn’t ask for enough help and I damn near blew an O-ring, if you know what I mean, and I think you do.

I’m gonna need help loading in Sunnyvale, help driving stuff up, and help unloading in San Francisco. Food + beer will be graciously provided.

Can you help? Please write me back and let me know! Thanks!

+ paul

There is a great talk by Richard Hamming on doing great research (”Nobel-prize type of work”) called “You and Your Research”.

Choice quote:

You should do your job in such a fashion that others can build on top of it, so they will indeed say, “Yes, I’ve stood on so and so’s shoulders and I saw further.” The essence of science is cumulative. By changing a problem slightly you can often do great work rather than merely good work. Instead of attacking isolated problems, I made the resolution that I would never again solve an isolated problem except as characteristic of a class.