tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51821072773656403962012-02-04T22:31:30.487-08:00Yavimaya Anatidaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09980734884062273079noreply@blogger.comBlogger981100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5182107277365640396.post-1232007049708175092007-09-26T00:03:00.000-07:002007-09-26T00:09:10.272-07:00

Is it weird that I stopped updating? Or was that something you expected all along.I certainly had aspirations to keep going, but finding content to make it relevant was certainly more trying than rewarding. While I now someone, somewhere, links their way here on the odd occasional fancy, no one stays and talks to me. So I get lazy. I forget to upload pictures and talk about my day. It's just not

Yavimaya Anatidaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09980734884062273079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5182107277365640396.post-979846522697764992007-08-08T11:25:00.001-07:002007-08-08T11:27:29.261-07:00

I spent all of yesterday tracking a coupon code that was giving $15 off any order (should have been off 200+) and I placed a couple orders for stuff that I'd been interested in for awhile. Unfortunately, despite shipping orders for other people and keeping the code active for over a day, it died this morning and all my orders have been canceled.Sucks. I was really hoping to get my new G15

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I just started watching Flight of the Conchords today and (apparently Yuan's known about them for awhile now...) they're really funny. The TV show is really dry, but awkwardly humorous and the songs they use to fill time are hilarious. This one is my favorite so far, so if you like it, just check out the show.And sorry about the lack of updates. I've been out having fun. I'll throw up some

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Haha. Awesome.Are you SuperBad?I hope you are.I went to screening for Superbad last night at Shattuck Cinemas and from my initial exclamations, you can tell it was a very good time. I'll start with a couple pictures, then I'll jump into the narrative of the day.So, I get off work at around 5:40 and meet up with Maggie near VLSB, knowing that we needed to get there early in order to get in.

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The lack of updates has been disconcerting, I know. I've been slacking off and I've been doing very little of interest, but I'll recap a bit. I finished reading HP7. I got a new 42" TV to go with my 50" TV, and I went to work.Dull.Anyways, the next few weeks should be much more exciting. I'm probably going to Great America and I hope to watch The Simpsons Movie at some point, but the biggest

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So uh...long story short...Overstock sent me a 42" Plasma TV anyways.I got it this morning and I don't know what to do with it. Uh...yeah...So...if you're interested in buying a 42" Plasma TV for pretty cheaps, let me know cause I've got one that I'd like to move.

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I don't know.If you haven't already noticed, I've taking down the ads. I made all of $.01 on it and I think Google closed my AdSense account for lack of activity or something. At any rate, until I close my personal blog or I can get more than 10 hits a day, I'm gonna keep the ads off.Does that mean I'm done with the blog? I know I haven't written anything in awhile, and I don't think there's a

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I finished reading Harry Potter. Sorry for the lack of updates, but I've been engrossed by a few other things, like staying up until 4am reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I have a few thoughts on it, but I know a lot of people haven't gotten around to finishing, so I'm gonna hold off on commenting for a week or two (just so a few more people can catch up).

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Jerry Yang won 8.25 million dollars. With a 5 to 1 chip advantage he calls 23M with pocket 8's preflop against AQ. The Queen hits the flop, but Yang hits runner-runner for the winning straight.I wish I were that lucky.

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Let's begin with the big news of the day. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows is now officially on the internet. Go to your favorite website/linksite/torrentsite to find it if you want to spoil it for yourself. I, of course, spent my money buying it from Amazon, so I'll wait for my hardcover to get here before I do anything rash.As a disclaimer: No, I don't know what happens. No, I haven't read

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I'm sure this is irrelevant, but I saw Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix this weekend with Maggie, Yuan, and Kenji. It was pretty good. Worth seeing if you've read the book, probably worth reading the book to see, and all in all enjoyable. Probably not worth IMAX, but that's up to you to decide. I'll give a more detailed trip report when I feel like it, but I've been hassled with dealing

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So, I got a new TV for the living this past week and I've been wrestling with some issues. After a few days, the buzzing and the sparkle issues have been a little less noticeable, and for the first time ever, all of the people in our apartment were in the same room playing Super Smash Bros: Melee on the Wii. It's amazing progress for a group of people that rarely if ever came out of their rooms,

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So, I've been raving about the new TV I was getting soon. A new Vizio 42" Plasma. It was supposed to arrive last week at some point, but after calling into the holding depot, they discovered that my order had been placed on hold and that they would need to call back east to find one. Great, so I wait. I called Monday to find out that the TV was in SFO and that they'd call Tuesday to deliver it.

Yavimaya Anatidaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09980734884062273079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5182107277365640396.post-82848771744667188462007-07-10T13:36:00.000-07:002007-07-10T13:39:36.973-07:00

I went to pick up my paycheck today. They didn't have my direct deposit set up or something, but I got the check for my 64 hours of work. Gross total of my paycheck - 677 and some change. After taxes, 604 and change. So for about 12% in taxes and medicare and stuff, I made out ok. I love being in the lowest income bracket without worrying about not having any money to go to school and paying rent

Yavimaya Anatidaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09980734884062273079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5182107277365640396.post-85442372157941775942007-07-09T23:40:00.000-07:002007-07-09T23:45:34.302-07:00

Surprisingly, I have no money. Where'd it go? I can hardly tell, but I have an idea.Once I pay off my credit card bills, I'll have all of $20 in my checking account. I'm so broke that this is getting ridiculous. Of course, I'm getting paid back for bills, on the order of a couple hundred, and I'm getting my paycheck soon, but it's still depressing.Part of the reason my money is gone is my buying

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I know, I'm about 20 hours early on this, but this is just too funny not to post up.The Simpsons movie comes out in a couple of weeks (BTW: Harry Potter is Wednesday, and we will be seeing it on IMAX as per Maggie's instructions, so I'm forced to invite you people to go see it with us...). In order to promote the new The Simpsons Movie, Fox and 7-11 have teamed up to convert a select number of 7-

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Lots of things that I need to write about from this week that I've been too lazy to talk about until now, so I'll get started. I suppose fast and furious is the way to go about it, but this'll probably still be long (atleast I hope it is; I haven't had a long post in a really long time. I'm starting to think I've lost my verbosity...)So, I mentioned on Saturday that I went to IKEA and Bay Street

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I just saw Transformers with Coral and Rbs. Trip Report later.

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A tribute to Transformers (releasing this Tuesday). The climax to the original movie and the most ridiculous name ever.I give you Rodimus Prime:

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Long story short. Or short story long.Either way, it's come to the point where I've lost my hair. I could say that I got cancer and had chemotherapy and lost it all, but that wouldn't be fair to the people who really have cancer and have needed chemotherapy. I could also say that I decided to join the monastery in Tibet, or that I've decided to emulate Mike, but that wouldn't be fair the monks or

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Yeah, I made a quick blog this morning about the iPhone. Little did I know that they had an Apple Store in Emeryville where I got hands-on time with the new iPhone. I'm gonna put up some quick pictures and post a more in-depth recap tomorrow with tales of IKEA meatballs, lingonberry, and a rat's ratatouille.This first one is the photo I took with the iPhone and sent to my email, the rest are with

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iPhone was released nationwide yesterday to the masses of people lined up from New York to San Francisco. Even Woz stood in line at Valley Faire just to pick up a couple more iPhones for his kids.Did I get one though? Nope. Not a chance. I really wanted to, but I don't have the money to pay for one. Although, if you've had a chance to read any reviews, the iPhone is almost revolutionary, and I

Yavimaya Anatidaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09980734884062273079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5182107277365640396.post-12631071270156356332007-06-29T00:09:00.001-07:002007-06-29T00:14:03.609-07:00

I'm starting a new fantasy football league. Year-to-year keeper, 10-12 teams (hopefully), and a lot of fun and exciting smacktalk with people I know. I'm excited.I'm gonna kick some ass. Or something. It'll be awesome.Signing up for Yahoo public leagues like always. I'm excited.If you're interested, send me a line!

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I've been fooling around with Ubuntu, the GNOME based debian linux distro, for the past few weeks on my laptop, but it never really stuck with me. It's probably because I never had the willpower to tough it out and figure out how most of the stuff worked. But today, I started doing some work in R and AFNI and I figured it was best to collaborate with the lab in the OS that the lab uses (they

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First day of summer classes for me resulted in an unbearably long day.I had 2 hours of lecture in the morning, followed by an hour of discussion, followed by 4 hours of work, followed by a lot of reading.Professor seems nice enough, but I have a feeling I won't be challenged. That means I'm probably not going to keep up and I'm going to be annoyed at the dumbing down of the material (like today's

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Wow, what a great movie.I saw Knocked Up today with Maggie and Yuan at the local UA7. We ended up sitting in the wrong theater to start with and noticed that we were watching a Marvel film (Fantastic Four 2) instead of the movie we had intended. Oops. That was a mistake. We rush over in time to miss the opening credits, but we managed to make it to see the hilarity that ensues. I was absolutely

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My apartment is going to be awesome. Awesome! Oh!I just bought a new, refurbished TV - 42" Plasma from Vizio - for $650 and I'm gonna split the cost with my roomies. Hook up a Wii, a DVD player, and digital cable...and...awesome. I'll have an excuse to invite people over to my place to watch stuff. Throw in an HTPC, my enormous collection of stuff on my hard drives, and it'll be such a

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Dear Undergraduate Major Applicant:We are pleased to inform you that you have been admitted to thePsychology Major. Your petition to declare the major has been signedand sent to the College of Letters & Science. The College shouldprocess your declaration shortly and you should have no difficultyentering upper division psychology courses through TeleBears.Boom. I'm in. Hot Fuzz.

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Seriously. This week has to be the most karmically depressing week ever. I don't think I've had one thing go right, which is entirely disappointing. At this point, I'm gonna wake up at 3:00am and puke in my bed, even though I'm not drunk. (I did have two glasses of sparkling white zinfindel though...)I suppose I shouldn't say anything about my lab work, but this week has been sadly depressing. It

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http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2875680Last winter ESPN surveyed Hall of Fame voters and found that only 20.4 percent would have voted for Sammy Sosa if he'd been eligible.And now...the experts agree, after his 12th HR this season (and 600th of his career), Sammy Sosa is Hall of Fame material. What!?I love the media. It enlightens us. Provides us with information. But sometimes...(

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I hate Ticketmaster, but more important...man...The White Stripes...They were gonna be at the Greek in September. Tickets were general admission and were on sale starting last Sunday. And they're sold out. Seriously...wtf? I wanted to go but I wanted to convince someone to go with me. Now? I can't even go, unless I sit outside like a bum and listen to the show from goodness knows where.Atleast

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I keep trying to come up with clever things to write about, but I'm stuck right now. I've been playing some poker, but since I know no one cares, I'll just say I had a sick awful day today and leave it at that. And...besides work, I just haven't had a chance to really do anything else with my time...Funny story though, MTV was doing a $10 off promotion with another 10 in the mail for a future

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This is Maggie's favorite routine from last weeks So You Think You Can Dance. I might be inclined to agree. It's good. Just watch it.

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I saw them at the Disney Store in Union Square...but I didn't bring them home. Still think they'd be cute for my computers. I named them Huey, Dewey, and Louie...Huey is broken at home and needs fixing, Dewey just got reformatted and better than ever, and Louie is my lappy (now running XP + Ubuntu).Now you know. AND KNOWING IS HALF THE BATTLE.

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My PC might be the quirkiest in the entire world.Lately, I've been troubled by the random processes, admin services, and slow boot-ups on my PC. It eventually got to the point (after installing Adobe CS3) that IE7 failed to connect and I couldn't do anything about it. So I decided it was time to do a full reinstall.Now, for some reason, my DVD-RW burns perfectly, but it can't read a boot disc to

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The CSR.The ubiquitous customer service representative. What a day.I ended up talking to three different customer service reps today and it just amazes me at the level of courtesy that some of these companies demonstrate. This morning I found out that Comcast in Georgia was having a promotion on high-speed internet for existing customers, so I called in to see if that same promotion extended to

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I added a new RSS of Interest widget on the sidebar so I can share some of the more compelling articles I read throughout the day. Enjoy them.

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Sigh. Do you know what's wrong with this world? It's run by a bunch of half-moronic apes that can't figure out the difference between their ass and their head.New Gallup poll suggests that the majority of Republicans favor creationist and intelligent design models over evolution.The majority of Republicans in the United States do not believe the theory of evolution is true and do not believe that

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I worked about 7 hours today. I'm tired. Of course an hour and a half was listening to a lab meeting presentation, but hey, that's what I'm paid to do. I was productive though. I ended up designing a new E-Prime task with user input for a working memory span test. I have to debug and fix typos tomorrow, but the mechanism works, and it records the data that I want, so I'm happy.I've got a longer

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I've been out the last few days celebrating Maggie's birthday in SF, then going to FC to hang out with people, especially Mike before he leaves for Coast Guard boot camp (to drill).I was hoping to have some pictures, but since I left my camera at Maggie's house, I'll have to be briefer in my update.On Thursday, I took Maggie shopping in SF. We went around Union Square to find all the bigger

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WOOOOOOO!!!!!!!WOOOOOOO!!!!!!!DUCKS WIN THE STANLEY CUP!!!!!!!A messy game, but the Ducks beat the Ottawa Senators 6-2 in Game 5 of the NHL Stanley Cup Finals. Captain Scott Niedermeyer won the Conn Smythe Trophy for most valuable player (leapfrogging JS Giguere) and Teemu Selanne celebrates his first championship.I'm excited.I'm buying a hat. These moments are the ones you dream about as a

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Alright, so Maggie just left for home, I just got off work, and I've got some time to write about my weekend.I got home on Thursday from San Diego and decided to rearrange my room. It cramps up a little bit of my space, but it opens up the room a lot and improves airflow, so I think it's a good thing.Friday, I went to Davis with Mike, Parker (his girlfriend), Brian (who just got into Berkeley,

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I've got a lot of updating to do since my last post. I went to Davis for a couple of days and took a few pictures, so I'll blog about that tomorrow or something. But today is my five year anniversary with Maggie, so I'll be busy with that and I'm not sure when I'll get around to it.Just to stay on top of things, Ocean's Thirteen comes out this Friday, and this is the video trailer for it. Most

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I rearranged my room today. I got home to Berkeley, picked up everything, and moved it around. Improves airflow, lighting is a bit better, but it cramps up the space a little. I dunno. We'll see if it's really an improvement.Oh, and if you didn't get it. I'm back in Berkeley. Yay. Call me.(btw, Ducks win game 2. Awesome)

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I really didn't want to do it, but since no one shows up anyways, I figured why not?I've pasted Google ads and various referral deals in various unobtrusive and yet still visible areas on your screen. If you want to click on one of them, go ahead, it only helps me (but I'm technically not allowed to say in what way). The cooler feature is the added search bar in the top right. If you have

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I love hockey. I love the Ducks. And Teemu Selanne...let's just say it can get a little homoerotic when I'm talking about my other god.It's Stanley Cup playoff time and the finals started tonight with a bang as the Ducks, once Mighty, banged home the winner in the third period, dominating the Ottawa Senators of Canada. Now, it's a home game, so they're just holding serve, but they punished the

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I'm gonna start with a recap of the day, then move on to my video.I went shopping today for Memorial Day sale stuff. I ended up picking up a new WD MyBook from Office Depot (500GB for $110 after tax), a new white blazer from Banana Republic (for more than I usually pay...), and two pairs of pants (one from BR, one from Gap). After we finished that we went to UTC and stopped in Nordstrom to try on

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Spent the day at UCSD today, hanging out with Kenji. I went down there pretty early in the morning because my dad wanted to drop me off while he was going to work. When I got there, Kenji had just woken up, so he looked completely out of it, but he showered real quick and showed me around ERC before his history lecture. I had originally planned to stop by Joyce's place during Kenji's lecture, but

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So, Digg killed the link to the story, so I haven't had a chance to really check it out, but, a girl apparently snuck onto the Stanford campus and lived in the dorms pretending to be a student. She acted like a Freshman and faked transcripts, bought textbooks, went to lectures, and pretended to study for exams. Took 8 months for Stanford Residence/Undergraduate Administration to figure it

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Ducks win game 6 of the Western Conference Finals against the Wings. They play the Ottawa Senators next for the Stanley Cup. Melrose says the Ducks in 6, citing the big pair of Niedermeyer and Pronger along with the huge force that is the Perry, Getzlaf, Penner line in front of the brick wall of Giguere as the main factors in shutting down Ottawa's Alfy/Spezza/Heatley line. I concur. In actuality

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Well, I have to admit, that while SD is more boring, it hasn't really set in yet. I'm playing poker again (albeit losing money...I had a guy stacked and I ended up splitting, and lost money with Aces and Kings, which is always gonna end up with a losing session) and I'm watching season finales. It's good fun, I assure you.I watched The Simpsons and Family Guy finales on Sunday. They were pretty

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I apologize for this being late, but it was either a Starcraft 2 video, or this great game that NHL Videos has to put up on YouTube half a day after it happens. At any rate, this game was great, I listened to the radiocast on the Ducks end and the commentator said twice that the two Ducks goals might be the biggest in franchise history. I'm almost inclined to agree (if they win game 6 or 7).

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The last thing I posted was meant as a separate thought that I had from last night/this morning.This post is a recap of my day so far.I went to a community fair (like Arts and Wines) today where they had some live music, old people dancing, and little kids playing. Fun. I ended sitting around reading the new JRR Tolkein novel, The Children of Hurin. After finishing it, I have to say that the

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I have to admit that while the Wii was fun, it was in limited settings since I rarely played it with other people (part of why I want to get a TV). But, yesterday, I watched my parents swing around the remote trying to play tennis and it may have been the funniest thing I've ever witnessed. Now, I don't mean to suggest that my parents don't get involved in much, but video games have definitely

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I landed in SD about 2 hours ago. I'm home. I set up my Wii downstairs and I heard the sounds of Link in the Legend of Zelda for the first time. Of course, I got my new Rayman game only to have it not work right out of the box. I'm trying some solutions to get it to read the disc since the splash screen works and it proceeds to part of the opening (once) before giving me a read disc error. We'll

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I'm already planning out my summer spending, looking into picking up a refurb 37" LCD HDTV for my apartment so I can play Guitar Hero 3 when it comes out for the Wii later this year. Once that happens, I'm pretty resigned to wasting most of my time Guitar Hero'ing. Still, I can usually function with one obsession holding me back.Today. Blizzard announced the killer blow. Starcraft 2. Dear

Yavimaya Anatidaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09980734884062273079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5182107277365640396.post-85899031536290501732007-05-18T14:46:00.000-07:002007-05-18T15:02:57.750-07:00

Last night was a big night for TV season finales. And, if the Gilmore Girls fans will excuse me, probably the most important night of finales of the week. Since I went out last night, and since a lot of my sources of TV watching were messed up early on, I didn't get a chance to watch anything until this afternoon. It was well worth the wait.Of course, I usually watch these shows with Maggie, but

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I basically did nothing today. Nothing. Except go out to eat with Yuan, Tyler, and Kristina. Otherwise, nothing.Maggie e-mailed about her first day in Thailand. Apparently, she slept for awhile, so that's something to cheer about. She saw a killer elephant and she doesn't understand Mandarin. So, all in all, something nice to hear.Yeah, with finals over, I'm pretty much in a state of perpetually

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I'm done. Woo.I just finished my Psych midterm this morning, and I'm not terribly disappointed by my performance, although there were a few questions where I had just no idea. Some of it was because the question was out of left field (i.e. from the book) and some of it was just poorly explained in the lecture/review section, so it wasn't a really good question to start with. Seriously, one

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I've got a final tomorrow morning, so I'm going to sleep right now. Maggie just left for Thailand about an hour ago and I'm pretty bored and lonely. I'll be in Berkeley for a couple more days (Tomorrow, Thursday, and Friday) and I'm doing a little bit of work between and now and then; but, since Yuan cancelled on me for IMAX Spiderman 3, I've got no major plans until I leave. So, if anyone wants

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My ears hurt, but I suppose that's more my fault than anything else. I picked up the new Linkin Park album, Minutes to Midnight, yesterday along with the new White Stripes single Icky Thump and the new Maroon 5 album, It Won't Be Soon Before Long.Yeah, I know, LP isn't supposed to be released wide until May 15. Yeah, I know even iTunes doesn't have it yet. And yeah, it's real.Oh, and I know

Yavimaya Anatidaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09980734884062273079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5182107277365640396.post-19311150746814821282007-05-13T14:31:00.000-07:002007-05-13T14:39:20.605-07:00

Happy Mother's Day to all the mother's in the world. I called my mom this morning, so you should too (OK, I lied, I called her an hour ago because I wasn't awake this morning, but still...)I don't have a funny picture or video for this special occasion, so I'll just put up some funny videos. The Office season finale is this week, which is unfortunate since that just means its all over until the

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So, Final #3 is out of the way. I finished MCB C100A this morning in a humbling experience. I'm not confident at all, which is probably a bad thing, but it might be ok given that my last midterm was terrible (I even told my parents that I probably bombed it) and I still managed the 4th highest in the class.Anyways, given that my next final isn't until Wednesday, I've decided to take today to

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Phew.I finished two finals today. One for Bio1A, the other for Asian Studies 10B. In between , I got my lab exam 2 final back and I wasted a Guac'd Chipotle Burrito (It fell apart halfway through eating it). Sigh.The finals weren't too bad today. I definitely didn't bomb either of them. They might not have been perfect, but what can you do...I passed Bio Lab though. I beat the mean by 20 points

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It's true. There is a calm. Right before the storm, the sense of foreboding silence is overwhelming. I'm there right now. Right before the torrential rain of questions and answers. It's time for finals.It looks like I'm done studying, but I've got to get some sleep for my 8am biology final and my 12:30 Asian Studies final. Wish me luck. Let's hope I don't end up like New Orleans after the storm.

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I turned in my human research ethics training certificates and I worked with my first subjects today.Let me say this. It's definitely awkward trying to explain things in layman terms and I'm definitely not the most personable guy in the world (especially in the morning without coffee...). Still I think I managed to run things pretty smoothly and without major incident. The data should be usable,

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Now, I've been playing around with a lot of stuff on this blog. Some just at random, some for practice, and some just to see what I can do with a blog. To be honest, I'm a little disappointed that no one comments...cause I want to comment back, but I supposed that has to do with my low readership and the lack of incentive to actually "say" something. At any rate, I try to stay on top of things

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Wow, it's hot. Let me understate it again. Wow. Hot. Real hot.Now, I have a final on Friday followed by a final on Friday followed by a final on Saturday and I can't study for any of them because it's so hot. Compounding the heat is my apartment and the fact that it's so unbearably hot.If I fail because of this weather, I'm going to cry.On a brighter note, the Detroit Red Wings defeated our

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Getting excited about the new movie season. The worst of the bunch might be Transformers, but I can't help myself.Go Go Optimus Prime. Looks awesome. Michael Bay might surprise, who knows...Oh, and the new Shattuck Tap Ex isn't too bad for the price...

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I'm tired, so this post will have to be short.I went to see Spiderman 3 today on an impulse with Kris, Sam, Tyler, and Maggie at the local UA.Let me first say that this is probably the last time I go to the local theatre on opening weekend to see a big blockbuster movie. The crowd was awful behind the common bounds of courtesy. People were talking throughout the movie, random kids were screeching

Yavimaya Anatidaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09980734884062273079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5182107277365640396.post-59179628350275492782007-05-04T00:46:00.000-07:002007-05-04T00:52:51.678-07:00

I added a new calendar to the sidebar just so you can see what I do everyday. It's not much, but hopefully it'll be incentive to keep my schedule updated since I'm trying to blog at the same time. It'll be a reinforcement of both agendas.Anyways, not much new today. Second to last lecture for T/Th of the semester...GOP debate was tonight. Realized that most of the Republicans are unwavering

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I'm officially done for the next week, except for some random studying and stuff.I finished my lab exam, I'm done, and I'm happy! Happy!Wasn't as hard as I thought it would've been, could've been easier, could've been tougher. Feels good to be done though.Unfortunately, I also have some bad news. I'm not going to Maryland for the summer. I didn't end up getting the call from anyone over at NIH,

Yavimaya Anatidaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09980734884062273079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5182107277365640396.post-28085580013433310922007-05-01T23:31:00.000-07:002007-05-01T23:37:18.779-07:00

And I've been studying most of the day too.Lab exam is tomorrow and I've been studying for most of the day, reading, re-reading, looking at slides, timing myself, speeding through a practice practical. All told, I know I'm not ready to ace it. But I think I'm in a solid enough position to get an A, so that's all I'm really gunning for. I hate classification...I did get to take a break in the

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I want to see Spiderman 3 on IMAX. Go with me. Please. It'll be awesome.I basically spent the day studying for the bio lab exam with Maggie, so nothing new to report. Sorry.

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First up is the video I promised. It's an SNL Digital Short from a couple weeks ago parodying the season 2 finale to the OC. It's a little slow at first, but just watch it. Keep watching it. Then watch the real episode in the video responses. It's crazy.Ok, so my life has been a huge hectic mess the last few days for a number of reasons. I've been writing my psych paper (which is almost done),

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I've got pictures from my lab. They're not great, but whatever. And they're not up today cause I need to sleep soon.David's birthday was "yesterday" (i.e. earlier today) and we grabbed dinner, watched a Steven Chow movie, and screwed around the rest of the night (instead of me writing my paper). Definitely fun. I'll have pictures up later tomorrow.I also have to put up this SNL Digital Short that

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This is a must read for anyone interested in legal studies, poker, or logic. It's a "Trip Report" from 2+2 about a meeting at Harvard Law about the legality of UIGEA (Anti-gambling bill) and the validity of poker as a game of skill rather than luck.http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=10119066&page=0&fpart=all&vc=1I'll have another post up later today describing my lab

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I've been working on my Psych paper for most of the day and this is the resulting introduction and beginning to the methods. I still need to work out some of the experimental details, but they'll involve localizing the FFA, programming the TMS to knock it out, and behavioral data. I'll probably try to make some images with MRIcro that'll be a picture of a brain in comparison to another brain and

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It's been over a month, and still no sign of my Rayman game. Fortunately, I impulse bought Zelda and that's been tidying me over while I try to finish this psych research paper and study for my animal anatomy and phylogeny exam.My computer is really messed up atm, way too slow, and I'm trying to defrag it. Who knows, it might be a virus, but I'm really not in the mood to reinstall everything on

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HAHAHAHA. I can't believe 200 people showed up for this. And I can't believe LG actually put up $25,000 for it. What a waste of talent...National Texting Championship?What's next...? http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/ptech/04/22/top.texter.ap/index.html

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Fun times today. Went to SF with Maggie. I outspent her...again. I bought three dress shirts for about $50 - one purple, one yellow, and one white (from Gap's Product Red line). Pretty good deal, IMHO, and I managed to use a 15% off coupon for the first two shirts at Express on already clearanced shirts, so doubly good there. Maggie ended up not getting anything after spending a decent amount of

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From last week's episode of scrubs, as I promised. The Todd.

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Seung-Hui Cho's family released a statement today through the AP wire. MSN has a story about in now. Interesting read.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18201501/

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Finally got my new Buffalo router in the mail today, took a few minutes to set up (more like an hour, but that's ok), and now I'm done with random reboots that my old D-Link router had. What's that mean? It means I don't get disconnected in the middle of games anymore. Yay!Other than that, I didn't have much to do. Talked about cosmetic surgery in public health, which would have been more

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Not much going on today (I know, I know, for shame).But some new news from out of VaTech that I thought was worth sharing. Apparently the attacks were not spontaneous, but planned for a long time by a very, very deranged person. So what can we learn? Give a hug. Even the semblance of love means a lot to even the most estranged people. Seriously. Give me a hug. http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/18/

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I was just talking about this new Yellowcard song before writing, so that's the reason for the title (among others).Anyways, I went to Ben and Jerry's today for Free Cone Day. I didn't get any pictures unfortunately, since I forgot. Otherwise, I was impressed with the turnout and the service. I waited 20 minutes and 40 minutes for two scoops on the day and the turnover time was exceptionally

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Condolences go out to all the friends and family of the victims of today's shootings at VaTech. It's a real tragedy - senselessly violent and violently senseless, I suppose.If you haven't heard, and I highly doubt you haven't heard, but a man (I'm assuming a college student) shot and killed two people in a VaTech dormitory in the morning, then fled. While the police thought he had left the campus

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Deux sounds like Ducks, doesn't it? Two days, +3%. At this rate, I'll be up 400% on the year!Yes, absurd, short term gains are pretty meaningless given the long-term holding nature of the investment. But hey, it feels nice to be +75 without doing any work. And I'm happy I got in before 1Q earnings were announced this week, although most of the work today was rooted in the HUGE Sallie Mae buyout,

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This post is a little bit late, which is unfortunate, but that's how it goes sometimes...Anyways, new Video of the Week in the sidebar, click on it for a larger play. If you've seen it already, you know it's the Peyton Manning United Way short from SNL a few weeks back, and you know it's hilarious and worth watching again. If you haven't seen it, you now know that you should, because it's

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First off, yesterday was a good day, until water started falling from the sky bursting through a crack in my ceiling and getting my mattress, comforter, and sheets wet...The manager doesn't really know what happened, but he went upstairs to check and they said that they didn't have any running water, so he's speculating that it was a pipe from outside that leaked in. Of course, I think that's

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I'm an investor! I bought into Janus Contrarian (JSVAX) today at 18.53 a share for 136 shares. Hopefully it'll keep beating the market like it has the past few years as a fairly stable long-term large blend fund. The management costs are a little high, but I'll pay an extra .6% if it means an extra 7% growth on my portfolio over an index fund. Hopefully, in the future I'll be able to put some

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I was supposed to get the new Rayman Raving Rabbids by now, but the guy I bought it from on eBay has failed to ship it and has failed to contact me back since I first paid him through Paypal. I've emailed him twice, once through his paypal email and once through his eBay account and neither have resulted in a response. So, I think tomorrow I'm going to bring it up with Paypal and get my money

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Boom!Since nothing happened today except a solid midterm, I'll just say.Boom!Entourage is back to finish off its third season after a ridiculously long hiatus on HBO. Here are a couple trailers to keep you entertained for your visit.

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I guess my birthday is over. Thanks to everyone that wished me well on Facebook, on AIM, or in-person. Makes me feel happy to know that people check Facebook and are willing to put in the effort.Hopefully I got back to everyone that posted, if not, I'm sorry, but I'd like to thank you again :PNot much else happened today though...still need to study for a Psych midterm tomorrow though...I did get

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Maggie and I went out to SF today to get lunch, dinner, do a little shopping, and see a movie.Unfortunately, since it was Easter Sunday, the Westfield San Francisco Center was closed which screwed up a lot of the shopping plans (although in retrospect it still ended up being a busy day).We stopped in the Gap store across the street, walked down to Macy's to check if Cheesecake Factory was open,

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First off, a couple of things with my blog: I'm thinking about making the posts expandible so you can see more of them at a time on the main screen, instead of forcing a scroll just to get to older archived posts, but until readership increases to the point where it matters, I probably won't bother trying to code the CSS script for it.Also, if you've noticed, I've added a few more clips to the

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Someone said that most blogs that are started at some point are given up after 3 months of that blog. This may just be one of those blogs.But for now, I have something they call momentum on my side. I've got the ball rolling and I'd like to keep it going. The real problem with "life" blogs is that if your life is boring, the blog will be boring, people won't come and read, and there's nothing to

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Welcome to the new evolution of the blog. Yours truly will attempt to make this a place of fun, a place of joy, and a place on unintended hilarity and deprecation. But if it doesn't work out that way, then I'm a lazy bum, and it'll never happen.Currently the layout is very haphazard and scrappy; I'd like to spice it up with some html code here and there and maybe some other cool things to play

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