I’ve been on a real Anthony Pappa kick lately. Right now I’m listening to Resolution CD 2 Track 12, “Solstice” at home and am blown away at how rich and full it sounds on my piddly Altec Lansing computer speakers. I spend way too much listening to my music turned down real low at work that I don’t appreciate how good this stuff can sound in the a half way decent environment.

Rory at Neopoleon.com has an interesting proposition for would-be Computer Science mentors. Basically, he’s willing to pay for one-on-one tutoring in CS concepts over the web.

I just realized that I haven’t been to Google.com in a very long time. Maybe months. Oh, don’t get me wrong, I’ve used Google plenty, but now with the IE Google bar and the Desktop Google bar, I have very few reasons to actually go to the Google front page. My view of Google lately has been search results.

UPDATE: I’ve since learned this name is often deemed offensive and you should order an Irish Slammer instead

According to this article, Steven Hawking’s wife has been questioned by British detectives over claims that she has been assaulting the brainy cosmologist (no, a cosmologist is not someone who writes for Cosmo).

Found this interesting post via Eric Gunnerson’s blog (PM for the C# compliler team) blog.

Don’t you hate it when you momentarily lose all control and pig out like a death row inmate on his last meal? I need to exhibit more self control during those “all you can eat” moments, because I am so uncomfortable right now.

How quickly would the pledge be altered if it ended “one nation under Allah” or “one nation under Buddah”?

A group of us went snowboarding at Mammoth mountain this past weekend to celebrate Judy’s (Dan’s wife) birthday. I won’t be so uncouth to tell you how old she turned. We stayed in a nice little condo with the 7 of us.

Found this on another website. Sorta ties into my earlier rant about Bush’s stance on the whole gay marriage issue:

Austin would be so pround. I wonder what the Queen thinks of all this wanton shagging going on? And I thought the British were such a reserved people. Apparently so if we’re talking about reserving a spot in the park for a romp.

In general, cursors suck ass! Ok, that’s a bit extreme, but I have a long and ugly history with cursors. Let me diverge here and tell you a true story.

Being of mixed heritageI have both bases covered. For now, I can claim my caucasian-ness and reap all the benefits of being the dominant sub-culture. But once minorities surpass caucasians, I can switch to

Cause his shiznit be fo real, know what I’m sayin’. Enter yo trickass URL and he’ll tranlate that shizzle.

Proving the whole 6 degrees of separation thing, I finally received an invitation to Orkut. The thing that struck me was when highlighting a button I noticed this in the status bar:

We’re meeting the lender today to make the final preparations for the big loan. I thought college was expensive, but this is on a whole ‘nother level. For you out there who don’t live in California, I’m basically buying a small 1000 sq ft 2 bedroom 2.5 bathroom condo townhouse for probably the amount you could buy a mansion in Kentucky, or a four bedroom house in Seattle. This market is crazy, but we’re not ready to leave L.A. just yet. So it’s love it or buy it.

I can almost smell the smoky embers. Burning Man tickets have already gone on sale. I tried to buy them in the mad rush when they first came online at a discounted price to no avail. Their servers basically decided to go on a vacation with the overload of requests. I had a vision of one of them Japanese subway cars where they have to shove people inside.

Neat Video of a backwards car….

Ok, this post has been effectively deleted. Apparently the link I posted is no longer up. :(

With the news that we are about to be home owners, Kyle’s comment was