Things I promise to do this weekend.
Check out the noe valley farmer’s market. Get some apples Learn more about Cocoa programming Get a box for file folders at staples or office depot Watch the heat – pistons game
Back from NYC
A few days of decent weather, good food, and interesting walks. Took the car from downtown Brooklyn to JFK again. It’s really sad to see how the outskirts of Brooklyn are in such bad shape. The Powerbook was in its finest form, though on one occasion I did figure out how to make it lock […]
Another weekend of waiting
Alas, the powerbook does not arrive til monday. So altogether, i’ve been pretty much waiting 2 weeks. Funny, that’s just about the amount of time Ramesh said it was going to take. ;-p
Armchair Traffic Theory
Today’s question: Why do buses on central city routes always come in bunches of two or three at a time. Here’s an intuitive proof. It seems reasonable to argue, that in the absence of traffic and any other reason for cars or buses to stop on the road, buses should arrive with roughly the same […]
Fix up the theme a little bit
Finally got my hands dirty and customized the look a little bit. CSS seems to be very cool and yet very sphagetti-code like at the same time. Anyways, at least now the letters don’t look smashed together. I’m not sure what the deal with that was. Font designers put a lot of time into getting […]
Damnit Berkeley
Apparently my name and SSN were also on that laptop that got stolen.. didn’t get the letter until now because they sent it to my parent’s place in Oregon. What a pain. Do they keep around the info of everyone and anyone who ever heard of the school?
Interesting twist
First saw this on the Mainichi paper, there seems to be a discrepancy between how the FM-level talks were reported in Japan and by Xinhua. The xinhua page says: Nobutaka said Japan’s invasion into China in modern history brought great damage to the Chinese people. The Japanese side feels deep regret for that and once […]
Damn Japanese Right-wing loonies
More random attacks against random Chinese-related targets in Japan. Incidents of BB-pellets shot at windows of Japanese language schools for Chinese exchange students in the middle of the night. What the hell are they thinking?