I'm 24 Somewhere

Things I've learned about South Korea:
1. Your age in South Korea is one year older than your physical age (i.e. you are considered 1 year old when you are born).  Due to this fact and due to the time difference between South Korea and the US, I was briefly both 25 in South Korea and 23 in the US.

Project status as of 29 July 2013:
I was able to export another DRC Hubo URDF model which Rob added to the Git repository.  I'm working to update the mass properties and update some of the parts, such as the wrist poles.  I was shown how to assemble the DRC Hubo fingers, and I've created the build steps for the process in Solidworks.

Notable photos:
I decided I'd take a look around the National Museum of Korea in Yongsan-gu, Seoul.  I was there once before in Spring 2009, and I wanted to see what, if anything, was different (and also see how much of an upgrade my camera was).

National Museum of Korea (2013).

National Museum of Korea (2009).

Main floor (2013).

Main floor (2009).

Stone pagoda (2013).

Stone Pagoda (2009).

Buddha head (2013).

Buddha head (2009).

Top floor (2013).

Top floor (2009).

What did the Buddha say to the hotdog vendor?...

"Make me one with everything."

Indian statue (2013).

Indian statue (2009).

This... thing (2013).

This... thing (2009).

The Gong Show (2013).

The Gong Show (2009).

Bell (2013).

Bell (2009).

Dan Lofaro's impression of the bell (2009).

After touring the museum, I went looking for gifts to bring back to the US.  My sister wanted some kind of band shirt, so I decided to go to Dongdaemun to go shopping.

Dongdaemun "Flea" market.

Pervert's number is either incredibly ironic or a stroke of genius.

*Clutches self*... "Phew.  That's a relief."

Retailers of fine and funny clothing.

War of nutrition...

I decided to take the subway from Daejeon Station to Wolpyeong (KAIST's stop) and ran into a few English/Americans who were headed to a bar in Dunsan-Dong called Cantina.  I'm surprised it wasn't run by Richard Pryor...

Who (drank) shot(s) first?

Things I've learned about myself:
1.I'm incredibly bad at billiards.

Non-Hubo Lab Koreans/non-Koreans I've met:
I don't know if this counts, but I met the brother of a Hubo Lab member by chance at Cantina.  One of the English guys was talking with a Korean guy, Guk-Jin, at the bar and somehow it was brought up that I work at KAIST.  Guk-Jin informed me that his brother, Tae-Jin worked at Hubo Lab.  Needless to say, he bought me plenty of drinks that night.

Tae-Jin's brother, Guk-Jin.