More Campus Photos

Another photo from campus of a cold winter day. This is the view from the biology building.

Hey, Egg Face!

Hanging out at an Irish bar, we spotted an interesting appetizer called a "Scottish Egg". It is a hard boiled egg that is wrapped in sausage and then deep fried. Sounds to good to pass up. When it arrived we made it into a face. It was delicious.

My First Publication

Here's a picture of the Science News issue that I got my first publication in. The main article was about tattoos.

Giant Crabs!

Returning a book to the biology library, I stumbled across this beauty - a giant crab. You can get a perspective of the size by noting the door in the right corner.

Skirtin' Around

I was invited to a Skirt Party over the weekend, where the theme was that one could only wear skirts. So I wore a Christmas Tree covering as my skirt, you can see my shorts underneath though; Jason wore a beach towel. This theme was easier on the girls than it was for guys, but it was fun.

Happy Chrismakwanzchaunkka!

One of my friends from my program had a holiday gathering at her place for all of us Science Nerds.

More Goofy Pictures!

More goofy pictures of John and I. Uncle Mike makes an appearance too. It was nice to see all the family during Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving Eve

I'm back home for Thanksgiving. I was showing John some of the funny effects on my camera.

Halloween

I dressed up as Mario for this Halloween, I even grew out the moustache! My roommates Ben and Kile dressed up as Captain Morgan and the Riddler.

Team Tripps!

We took this photo before a game, looking sharp with our jerseys. We are currently undefeated, 2-0!

Come see the Amazing Maize Maze!

Somehow or another we all decided to go out to a Corn Maze. It was a putative winner of an international competition...So as expected, we got lost many times. Many many times. The excursion was fun but the maze got old by the end. The best part of the trip might have been the fine cuisine (as shown in the slide show).

It's called a walking taco. I believe that they unlocked the awesome flavor of the "chili" by heating it (via heat lamp) for 48-72 hours before serving. BAM! As Emeril would say; thats how you take it up a notch.

What time is it? It's moustache time!

It's Game Time

About a week ago, I got tickets to go to a wisconsin football game. The stadium was packed with people! We sat (really, stood for the whole game) in the student section. They had alot of cheers and chants. But I'm getting too old for standing up w/out moving for 3 hours.

After wards we went out to a sushi place. It was good but not filling so we left and walked directly to another restaurant across the street for dinner number two. The second restaurant was some middle eastern type cuisine. Both dinners were excellent.

Willie Street Fair Videos

Here are some videos I took during the willie street fair. Weird.

IM Football

My roommates and I joined a co-ed football team, called "Is tripps a guy?". Tripps is a play we run and one of the players on our team thought it was a person. Here is a picture of our first practice. My jersey number is 7.

The picture was taken about 1 block from our house at the park.

The Willy Street Festival!

Today a few class mates of mine and I went to the Willy St. Festival, on Williams St. It was weird. I've never seen such an eclectic mix of people. There was no reason to but many people dressed up in ridiculous costumes. It was a good time. We listened to some jewish folk/jazz music and mostly gawked at the ever passing oddities. We saw a bearded lady, a lumberjack, loins, tigers, no bears though, many Elvis's, bumble bees and other people dressed in costumes made from clothes that even a goodwill would reject.

My First Lab Rotation

A few pictures of where I go to school and the lab that I am currently working at. This building houses both the lab I'm working in for my first rotation and one of my lectures halls. I go to school everyday, John!

A Trip to the Farmer's Market

This Saturday I took a trip over the Farmer's Market on Capitol Square. There were so many people out and they had all kinds of food. One thing Wisconsinians are really proud of are cheese curds, small chunks of cheese. If you are able to get them in a few days after they are made from the cow, they will squeak when you bite them.

I purchased an eggplant, some honeycrisp apples and some carrots.

I also ran into these folk, I'm not sure why they were there.

My Room

Here's a video I created with one of the programs on my mac.

More Campus Photos

Another slideshow! These places are along Observatory Dr.

A Trip up to Picnic Point

During the first week I moved to Madison, I wandered into the Picnic Point area. The park is maybe 20 minutes from my house and about 5 minutes from campus.

Funny Pictures

Playing around with the settings on my camera while I was at a coffee shop on State Street.

Some Campus Photos

Exploring my new school at Madison.
This picture was taken behind our Memorial Union building. It overlooks the south shore of Lake Mendota.

Here is an old sky observatory on campus.

Starting up the new blog

Whats up everyone? Hope things are going well. I'm thinking on using this site to let people know what I've been up to lately. I also think it'll be neat for John to see pictures of where I'm living at and stuff. So I'll eventually have pictures of my house, roomates, work, etc.. Feel free to post comments too! Later, Joe