Trust me, I hate Duke with a passion. But I firmly believe college basketball is best when UNC is #1 and Duke is #2. In that order.

When Duke gets blown the hell out by Clemson, beat down at Dean Dome East Cameron Indoor by UNC, and beaten by Boston College, it's bad times ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a complete wash. I wanted to do some testing for a PTQ next weekend, but most of my Magic-playing friends in fact have girlfriends or are married. So I tried doing work that I don't do during the week, so that I can make time to leave work early during the week to play Magic guilt-free... but that ended up being more or less a wash ( Read more... )

So I saw on Wikipedia just now that there was plane crash in New York state on top of someone's house. I wanted to find out more, and my first instinct was CNN.com or abcnews.com. I then thought "Well, I don't really want any sensationalist bullshit, I just want to know why the hell this plane crashed." So I decide I'll try BBC.com ( Read more... )

I've been sick the past week (since coming back from Pittsburgh, I think one of my friends' roommates got me sick when I was staying at their place). I didn't think I was sick enough to warrant staying home and missing meetings and stuff, but today I decided it was when I wasn't getting better ( Read more... )

Left work early last night because I wanted to watch the game and I wanted to watch it with other Carolina fans. I ended up with a Carolina alumni club at a restaurant, where it must've been like 100, maybe 200 Carolina fans (and as the guy I was sitting next to pointed out, 2 Duke fans who were really really quiet during the game ( Read more... )

An age-out of Carolina Crown posted a rip of our 2008 Finals performance. I watched it, making it the first time I was hearing and watching it. While there were parts, like slow-1812 to the end, where I let myself get caught up in it, the rest of the show I couldn't keep my eyes and ears off of ticks. (Granted, I could not pick out as many ( Read more... )

I bought the album It Means Everything by the ska band Save Ferris. (This could be a post about how Pandora is FINALLY helping me discover new more popular music, so I don't blank out when discussing music or have to say "Oh, I'm listening to drum corps on my iPod right now ( Read more... )

Grades are in. I'm leaving CMU in 3 years with a 3.97 in computer science. Friends may say one thing, but strangers judge a 3.97 in CS a certain way ("no social life" for people outside the field, or for those in tech fields, "book smart"). The smartest people at CMU talk about how everyone gets terrible grades here, and then there's me ( Read more... )

I'm home right now. My dad's scans came back inconclusive, which means they have to do a brain biopsy on Tuesday to figure out what's going on.

From the time I've been with him, he's had a couple of memory lapses and has done some things he usually doesn't do.

I'm going to be with my family for the entire week, so not at school.

So I pulled another all nighter last night to finish my web apps project in order to demo at 11:00am today. Helping me out was a triple latte from Starbucks at 10pm, tea at 2am, and, unwisely, ANOTHER triple latte at around 7:30am because I wanted to stay up to do laundry and clean my horn for Crown. I get done with all of that and decide to try ( Read more... )