Paid Relaxation... Well At Least A Little Bit

Awhhh... mmm... so as you can probably guess from the title, today was pretty slow.

In the morning the intern meeting was pretty interesting. We walked around like pirates covering our eyes so that they would adjust to the darkness while the other eye was exposed to light. When returning to a darkened room we found that we were able to see out of the covered eye very well and almost not at all through the other one. This was due to the fact that the covered eye retains a certain chemical which allows the eye to adjust for vision in the dark. Only one eye retained this chemical however, by remaining in darkness, and therefore was the eye that was able to see in the darkened room.

After that we headed off to the labs where we finished reading the documents John had given us yesterday and we typed up the data that we collected. Nick gave us a tape to calibrate that was from the Infotracking experiment we participated in yesterday. Erica and I completed that and also digitized the tape. Some other tapes were digitized by AJ. Everything took awhile so we soon found that it was time for lunch.

A quick lunch and we were back in the labs... but no one else was. So we waited for a long time, and played some games. Later, Tristen gave us back the tape which we had calibrated this morning. He introduced us to our first job on RITCode and helped us to learn how to prepare the tape so that information could be gathered from it. It was pretty tedious work, going frame by frame and analyzing the tape for points of fixation, it takes a freaking long time!!!

That was pretty much it... not a lot of stuff to do, but it fills the time.

Keep it classy,
Matt