It’s 4 AM, so this will be short. At Deans’ Dinner, we noticed the custumes that some students were wearing. Although most didn’t dress up, many did. There were various Halloween activities going on around campus, including some jumping attractions and bowls of goldfish in McCarthy Quad. Back in the dorms, there were haunted houses…Continue Reading…
I’ve been researching speakers because I really need to get something better than the ones built into my LCD monitor. The brands to be considered are: Logitech My friends in the room next door both have Logitech speakers. They’re different models (not sure which models), but they’re both awesome. Creative I saw some Creative SBS…Continue Reading…
October 15, 2005. Simply the most amazing football game I’ve ever seen (on television). One of the greatest football rivalries ever – USC vs. Notre Dame. “Irish quarterback Brady Quinn had given Notre Dame a 31-28 lead with 2:02 left, dashing around right end for a 5-yard touchdown, extending his right arm across the goal…Continue Reading…
There was an infosession with Google in the Seeley G. Mudd building, room 101. It was quite interesting. There were four representatives from Google there; two of them were USC alumni. Russell gave a nice presentation about Google. Specifically, he’s working on Froogle. I asked a few questions. Perhaps I talked too much. I rarely…Continue Reading…
I was looking up some stuff about USC and Google, and this came up: MD5 code is used for security, was written by the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute, and is derived from the RSA Data Security, Inc. Message-Digest Algorithm. Google Desktop Copyright Notices ISI is even more amazing than I’d thought… supposedly,…Continue Reading…
Today I went to the Baptist Church of Los Angeles. I won’t go into the story about how I ended up going there (it’s a long one). But I’ll write some about what my experience there was like. They’re got a very interesting style of worship. It’s probably the strangest church I’ve ever been to….Continue Reading…