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While shopping for a digital camera, I noticed this review of the Canon S330 over at DP Review, written by a gentleman from Taiwan. It reads like a haiku:
Opinion
I am Taiwanese.
In my country,S330 is called IXUS 330..
S330 is my first dc..
Outdoor pics are great..
In the darkness,it cannot focus on the object.
Problems
The battery life is short.
If it was a 3mp dc, i would like it more.
Last night, I dreamt about “searching the state space”. What a strange dream. So, yeah, I think I need this break to relax a little and recharge my batts. I’m feeling a little overworked.
Being in New Jersey makes me want to buy things. When you live in Manhattan, everywhere else seems like a giant outlet store. I always go back to Columbia with something new. This time it is a spanking new mouse (wee!) and a new pair of jeans.
Oh yeah, and here’s a small list of Things That I Am Thankful For:
A couple weeks ago, Jack Chen, UVA junior and member of Lambda Phi Epsilon, died suddenly in an automobile accident. Like many collegiate Asian-Americans, Jack had a Xanga website. His last entry has become a memorial of sorts, where everyone catching wind of the story has been leaving comments. The comments are a mixture of Christian well-wishes and condolences from friends, classmates, and Lambda brothers from chapters across the nation. The comments can get pretty hard to read through by the 100-mark.
Xanga’s nifty community tools help show how people are connected in eerie ways. Taking the earliest-added “Sites I read”, you can glean who his closest friends were (at least, those closest friends that used Xanga). And they have all left haunting dedications to Jack in their more recent posts (1, 2, 3 ).
Strangely enough, Jack’s last Xanga post was about appreciating the little things in life, like: “just chilling on weekends with friends… getting a random email or a phone call… a smile while walking to class… playing on the guitar… talking to mom and dad…. hitting up your lil sister randomly while shez out at the mall with her friends…” And it finishes with a loving note of appreciation to God. I wonder if he had any idea? Reading through the entire site, you can’t help but feel he was a sensitive smiley-faced young man with hopes of love and happiness.
Sorry, kid.
Chapped lips aren’t a problem if you have nobody to kiss.
Yeah, so that’s finally over. Had to write an Italian Checkers program (computer player and all) for my AI class. It was due last Thursday, when we proceeded to have a tournament, pitting each other’s checker-AI against each other. Considering I started coding on Saturday (three week project) and considering the class is filled with grad students and Ph.D. students, I did pretty well. I made it to the second round and earned two extra points to my grade. Pat pat pat.
Someone bring me some turkey already.
This blog has been sucking this semester. My schoolwork has sucked away all my energy. The cleverest thought I’ve had in weeks is how a for-loop saved me n/2 cycles. What an unappreciated academic path this is.
In case you were wondering, yes, the sun did rise today. I was unsure it was going to, so I stayed up just to make sure. No need to thank me, your smile is thanks enough. All in a day’s work for a Sun Rise Vigil-ante.
Hello, it is 6 AM and I just cleaned the sink and toilet. Apparently, when I get stressed, I get domestic.
For my Database Systems class we had to design and build a database application (for the web.) My partner’s and my idea (partner’s and our? partner’s and i’s? Safire, help…) was a restuarant and menu database for the places around campus. It’s pretty nifty, we have a PostGRESQL backend, and I learned some cool things about cgi. Suddenly, I feel capable of starting a really bad dot-com. Oh, to be in 1998 again.
Anyway, here is our project. Couple things first: 1) use Mozilla/Netscape 6ish to view it. In the rush to develop the website, I used some advanced CSS2 styles that IE does not support yet, so it will look screwed up if you use IE. 2) The link will be dead at the end of the semester because they’re going to shut down the webserver when the course is over. I’m getting a copy of all the code. When that day comes when I have non-Columbia webspace… you will see it again.
I think that if I wanted, I could be a big ol’ asshole. A good one, too. I can make quick, pointed comments that are at once painful to the recipient and humourous to the audience. Being an asshole is both about pleasing your own twisted sense of humor and amusing the other cruel bastards around you.
Oh yeah, and we’ll have to put the Why I Am Single mini-series on hold for a while. I need to cool it with the posts about girls. Need to show the world that I am not completely consumed with the thought of double-x-chromosomal flesh. I have hobbies, honest. [puntos for alliteration! ]
Thoughts while walking back to my dorm last night at 2am after a long night of working:
“Oh boy. This pizza smells so good. I can’t wait to get back and eat it. I am so hungry. I wonder which slice i should eat fir—hey, now. what’s this? What do we have here? I think that’s a girl coming out of Schapiro. She seems kinda cute from this distance…. She’s walking this way! OK [crab], this is your chance. Don’t do anything stupid. Don’t trip don’t trip don’t trip. Control your breathing. Look cool. look cool. Remember to smile. She’s getting closer! Wow, she is cute. I think she’s half-asian. wow oh wow. Is she looking at me? no. gotta smile smile.. cmon.. glance at me.. I’m smiling at you with my brightest smile. cmon, why don’t you glance at me? I know you want to.. cmonn, cmon.. last chance last chance.. passing me now…….. damn. ::sigh:: I wonder who she was.
Yeah… that was a long walk back home.
While eating at Mcdonald’s (34th st one): Everything’s more expensive in the city, even a Big Mac Extra Value Meal. Here, it costs a whopping $5.69 (for medium!). Right, but consider the Dollar Menu. They can’t mark up that price at all. All items there have to be a dollar, whether you’re in NYC McDonald’s or Idaho McDonald’s. This is it! We’ve found the loophole. We got Ronald McDonald by the balls. We can buy dollar items and get true eating value for them.
Then I realized, well, they can just give you less than they would elsewhere. The McValue drink becomes five sips. The McValue fries is reduced to just five. The $1 Big-N-Tasty is, well, neither. Those bastards. We can never win.
Upon seeing three hot girls in the subway: I couldn’t tell if they were hot.. or if their jeans were just too tight. Well, regardless, they were way too middle school.
After thinking that last thought: I think I spend too much of my days thinking of puns and quips.
I was talking with a friend about quantum physics the other day. Wait… wait.. actually it wasn’t quantum physics, what was it? What could I possibly have been talking about? I just can’t remember, oh right. Girls. We talked about girls. The topic slipped my mind because I never talk about girls. Ever. Especially never about cute ones.
Right, so Michelle and I were chatting, and I mentioned a penchant for girls that do not wear a lot of makeup. She stops to correct me. No, she says, you do not dislike girls that wear lots of make-up. All these beautiful girls all wear lots of makeup. Makeup applied well, she continues, is makeup you cannot tell. You just dislike girls that apply their makeup poorly.
And right she was. So I was left with an trivial opinion. And still no mate.