Happy Thanksgiving everybody! I hope this holiday season is finding you warm, well-fed, and surrounded by family and/or friends. I find that on this holiday, most of us enjoy peace and plenty. Its a good thing, and its the only thing that we have ever known. Still, its good to stop and think about all the wonderful things we have, and what we can ( Read more... )

Today they released the (apparently) greatly anticipated XBox 360. I'll start by saying that despite my well justified hatred for M$, I found myself impressed by the original XBox. Not only was it a powerhouse among the consoles, but with an investment of about $150 you could mod it and guarantee that you never had to pay more than the rental price ( Read more... )

Back from a weekend of musical concerts, alcoholic intoxication, tasty Pho, and rabid sex in the dark ( Read more... )

And now the strange babbling of one who shouldn't even be awake ( Read more... )

More jumbled thoughts to share... where to begin ( Read more... )

Today was a fairly long day, though not nearly as difficult as I had imagined. The primary hindrance to my first day at work was not lack of knowledge or experience, but rather a complete lack of sleep. Last night I was just plain restless, and nothing I did could make me fall asleep before about 1 am. Perhaps it was a minor case of nerves related ( Read more... )

Some might note that I haven't been on LJ in a REALLY long time. Suffice to say that graduate school and soul-searching trips to asia are not the best catalysts for online exposition ( Read more... )

In my dream I was watching a horror movie in my house ( apparently it was the new Alone in the Dark, as it had those funky quadroped monsters). For some reason I became scared that my mom was some sort of undead creature that worked with these monsters. In fact, for a time she took on the form of a ghoul. However, it turned out to just be my ( Read more... )

The first part of my dream involved me being strapped down in a government lab. Apparently, I was one of what they referred to as "mathematicians", and they repeatedly drugged us and filled our senses with input to be rapidly processed by our brains. The room was black, and the robotic arms used to inject us were long and spidery. For some reason I ( Read more... )

For most of my youth, I wondered what the British obsession was with tea. I wondered why they didn't embrace soda like America, as it tasted much better. After exchanging stories and scientific studies with fellow engineers and taking a food science class for fun in college, I drink almost no soda now (aside from the occasional tonic with lime on ( Read more... )