Today RJ Pittman, the Director of Product Management at Google, and a Umich Computer Engineering alum, gave a lecture in EECS 496 (the class that goes with senior design). He talked about working for startups and being among on the team that built the first node of the internet (in a non-Al Gore manner), Moore's Law, and about there being a shit ( Read more... )

I arrive on North campus between 10 and 12 in the morning everyday. There is a high school kid that gets dropped off and walks in around the same time as me every other day. He looks like my brother but is a few inches taller and a bit lankier. I don't think he realizes we're racing, but we are. He always beats me to the piano. No piano before ( Read more... )

Force Majeure. [company] shall not be liable for any delay or failure to perform resulting from causes outside the reasonable control of [company], including without limitation any failure to perform hereunder due to unforeseen circumstances or cause beyond [company's] control such as acts of God, war, terrorism, riots, embargoes, acts of civil or ( Read more... )

http://www.ums.org/s_current_season/by_series.asp

Perlman, San Francisco Symphony, Berlin Philharmonic, Lang Lang

On our way to pick up our cable equipment from Comcast on Tuesday, we happen to go to far and stumbled on a Kmart. We were planning on going to Meijer anyway, so we decided to stop by. It just so happened that Kmart had a special on select General Mills Cereal: 4 for $8 and a $2 instant discount (limit one per customer), effectively $1.50 a box ( Read more... )

http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/annc/20090502-page-commencement.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueJcRmfweSM

It worries me that every so often I notice I still put 2008 as the current year when dating papers/documents/checks/etc. I don't think the year doesn't seem to completely sink in until sometime in the middle of the summer. Maybe it'd be cool if I started dating documents with arbitrary years. It'd be like I'm time traveling, only not ( Read more... )

http://www.greensock.com/portfolio/MicroManiac/index.html
Microwave stuff.

I suggest ketchup packets. Ketchup packets are fun.

-Learn web stuff and start doing on stuff for work
-Finish projects
-Upload some very very long overdue photos
-Make spontaneous spring break road trip happen