I don’t have much personal opinion to say about this, so I’ll pull a few quotes from news articles. George Lucas made a public announcement today, September 20, saying that his Lucasfilm Foundation will give $175 million to the University of Southern California. This is the largest single donation the university has ever received. Part…Continue Reading…
This article in the Daily Trojan is about the gas situation. I have two major points to make here. Using gasoline is economically beneficial. No other form of energy packs such a tremendously huge amount of power in a small space, especially in a liquid form that can be transferred that extremely high rates (compared…Continue Reading…
I’ve decided to start posting some short comments on articles in the Daily Trojan, USC’s student newspaper. This particular article is interesting because it tries to advocate the view that people should stop worrying about Facebook’s changes. Here’s one sentence that makes me sick: To those people, I ask whether they are really being honest,…Continue Reading…
This morning, I started thinking about how I first got into programming. Indeed, I think the earliest beginnings were from computer games. First, we had a computer that was amazingly fast for the time, an Intel 486DX 33MHz with 16 MB RAM and a 500 MB HDD. We had a 2x CD-ROM and a 3.5″…Continue Reading…
Someday I should look more into the invention of the microwave oven. I read several pages about it. Looks like World War II resulted in a lot of technologies that benefit us today. People are lazy. They get so much more done with the proper motivation.
Brendan Loy has the details on International Talk Like a Pirate Day.