ThinkGeek sells a shirt called Dead Hex People. It has a riddle on it which goes like this: How many people can read hex if only you and dead people can read hex? Any idea? You have my respect if you got it from just that… The answer is given as: 57006 OK, I still…Continue Reading…
The Wii has arrived in Marks Hall. Jason Lee picked up a new Nintendo Wii, waiting in line for it early this morning. (Although Nolan apparently paid for it, he’s going to pay him back.) It’s really, really sweet. Not only is it by the far best-looking of any of the next-gen consoles, it’s also…Continue Reading…
IBM’s site has a blurb about the IBM 2361 core storage unit. In each 2361, almost 20 million ferrite cores — tiny doughnut-shaped objects, each about the size of a pinhead — were strung in two-wire networks and packaged, with associated circuitry, into a cabinet only five by [two and a half] feet and less…Continue Reading…
So I’m the official Google Ambassador for USC. Today I received another package containing a Google visor, bag, notepad, and 7 cards promoting the Google Gadget Awards. She also threw in an FAQ for the Google Ambassador program. Google is awesome.
This morning, I thought to myself that I was very dissatisfied with my classes. CS 499 is boring. Math 226 is explained terribly. ITP 477 is cool (ask me about this if you’re interested). I still need to start writing for the Core 103 midterm Thursday. EE 101 is the one class that’s going well…Continue Reading…