I had some strange dreams last night. The first I can remember goes like this. I was talking with a friend in their dorm room, when suddenly I noticed that they were browsing the old Cybiko website on their computer. What?! The Cybiko website is back online! I asked him why he was there. “I…Continue Reading…
Everybody’s Kitchen, one of the two primary cafeterias at USC, has gotten better this year. On Wednesday, I went there for lunch. Here are some thoughts on some of the dishes I had. First, waffle fries. These were quite good. They fried them with the potato skin still on them– similar to the fries at…Continue Reading…
Yesterday I went to EVK for dinner, my first time for this school year. It’s exactly as I remember. The food tastes exactly the same, right down to the tomato sauce on the pizzas, which tastes like it came straight out of the can. They did have one interesting dish: soy chicken stir fry. I…Continue Reading…
Andrew Viterbi, who donated $52 million to the USC School of Engineering, joined a communications research group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) upon graduating from MIT in 1957. It was “the most intriguing job he was offered”. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in 1962, invented the Viterbi algorithm in…Continue Reading…
I overslept this morning and missed church. So I’ll cheer myself up by stating what I did. I helped John Shook setup local area network between his laptop and desktop. “You are a genius!” he claims. I helped Bob setup Thunderbird to work with USC email. He had a Symantec firewall blocking access. I helped…Continue Reading…
My second act as Google Pizza Ambassador was a study break designed for CS 102 students. We have our final on Monday, two days from today. I sent an email to everyone in the CS 102 class, thanks to a grading sheet mailed to me by a TA, which listed everyone’s email address. However, only…Continue Reading…