Does anyone have a recommendation for an incredibly high-quality silkscreener in the area that can make posters? I need the best recommendation possible, and can borrow a car to get to where ever the shop is. Thanks!

Does anyone know of any good hardware stores in Berkeley? I need things like weather stripping and cork board (for sound-proofing), and I don't have a car, so someplace near campus would be lovely.

What classes in Berkeley will teach you some or any or all of the following?

- developing applications for embedded systems such as IPhones and Palm Pre?

- Java Spring-Hibernate Framework?

- developing Web Service Caller Clients for Amazon, Facebook, ESPN etc

- parsing JAX_JRC, JAX_WS XML?

- RESTFUL protocols

- Using vendor API kits in Java and PHP?

tyvmia

Current Mood: quixotic

Just watched this show on the History Channel that had a section about awesome research going on at UCB. This is incredible:

"The great science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke famously noted the similarities between advanced technology and magic. This summer on the big screen, the young wizard Harry Potter will once again don his magic invisibility cloak and disappear. Meanwhile, researchers with Berkeley Lab and the University of California (UC) Berkeley will be studying an invisibility cloak of their own that also hides objects from view.

A team led by Xiang Zhang, a principal investigator with Berkeley Lab’s Materials Sciences Division and director of UC Berkeley’s Nano-scale Science and Engineering Center, has created a “carpet cloak” from nanostructured silicon that conceals the presence of objects placed under it from optical detection. While the carpet itself can still be seen, the bulge of the object underneath it disappears from view. Shining a beam of light on the bulge shows a reflection identical to that of a beam reflected from a flat surface, meaning the object itself has essentially been rendered invisible."

http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2009/05/01/invisibility-cloak/

Hey there!
I hate doing this to you guys, but I'm totally desperate at this point. Right now, I'm living in a sublet that's absolutely disgusting, to say the least... I'm looking for something as early as now, essentially, or as late as mid-August. Here's my CL posting- http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/hou/1258158823.html

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE take a look and either pass it on if you know people looking to fill a room/place, or let me know if you have something for me!

Thanks, and of course, GO BEARS!

-Lindsay
Class of 2010

Tags: housing-apartments
Current Location: Sacks Coffee

hi all,

i'm thinking about living in a co-op next year. i'll be a 1st year grad student- are co-ops populated mostly by undergrads? and if so, do they tend to place grad students in a different places than undergrads? (btw i'm looking into the usca/berkeley student co-op - if there are other/more awesome ones, please let me know!) which are the sweetest houses?

if anyone with experience living in one wants to tell me what they think, i'd really appreciate it!

Driving up on telegraph on a sunny afternoon i had my sunroof open, smoking a cigarette, rockin to some tunes while cruisin in the fast lane when suddenly my car engine just died. I steered it cautiously towards the sidewalk and attempted to start it again. It started but the throttle refused to pick up. I figured it wasnt the battery and maybe a problem with the fuel pump or throttle body or so. I kept trying to restart the car but in vain so i eventually had it towed to my apartment.

I have an 2001 Audi A6 2.8 and was wondering if anyone had a similar problem with their Audis?

Does anybody have the diagnostic computer for Audis or knows someone who has it?

In a related question, does Anybody know a "good & reliable" mechanic who doesn't charge you so much that you have to drop out of school?

If anyone has had a good or a bad experience in Berkeley in search for the Utopian mechanic we all seek , i would sincerely appreciate your comments. It would be helpful to know which ones to avoid.

Thanks

is anyone driving to LA from the bay area anytime soon? i will pitch in for gas and be a friendly carpool companion.

Current Music: Sonic Youth - Walkin Blue | Powered by Last.fm

Hi everyone,

I am a 23 year old female who is going to start at UC Berkeley this Fall as a PhD student is social psychology. I am clean and studious but fun and easygoing as well :) I hope to move in August 1 and will stay for the entire 09-10 school year and perhaps the summer as well. I will be in Berkeley July 11-12 to look at potential places. Ideally, I would prefer to live in the North Berkeley area but I am willing to look at places anywhere relatively near the UC Berkeley campus. I am hoping to pay from $600-$760/ month. I am open to living in a room in a house with other people or in a studio. I need a place with a parking spot or parking available as I am bringing my car. Just as a heads up, my longterm boyfriend happens to live out of town so he would come visit me from time to time- he is very kind and respectful too. Please let me know if you have a living area available and if perhaps we could set up a time and date that I could see the place on July 11 or 12.

Here is my posting on craiglist: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/sha/1249918360.html.

Thanks and I hope to hear from you!

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