Wow, two awesome late games tonight. I can't believe UCLA came all the way back after that terrible, terrible first half. Incredible. Even though I'll be tired at work tomorrow, I do enjoy staying up to watch with several IM conversations going at the same time. Looking forward to eight more games over the next few days. :P

http://dogooder.info

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I've been playing around with Ruby on Rails. I've been torn between adding features and optimizations and sending out the link to see if people will actually use it. Curiosity wins.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/06/legs.stolen.ap/index.html

At first the headline caught my eye. She's from Arcadia! And on the softball team!

I went with Jen to some of the Sloan Admit Weekend festivities and really enjoyed it. Met some really interesting, outgoing, accomplished, friendly, approachable people, including one person who is trying to use business school to get into video game production and another who turned out to be my upstairs neighbor's co-worker. Sloan (and probably ( Read more... )

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/693/693369p1.html - video game ping pong, brought to you by Rockstar games.

And, yes, you will be able to hold the racquet in both styles.

Seems funny to bring something that's already pretty accessible into the digital world.

I promised Ben a post about the Winter Olympics. Jen and I have been watching a ton, despite tracking results online during the day. At work we have to be careful about what we say since Ben tries to avoid finding out what happens until he watches the day's events when he gets home ( Read more... )

http://redruth.greenbean.org/~ben/4CR/smb_super_synth.swf

Yesterday we went to Wachusett with Jess, Cy, Nick, and Ceida. Cy patiently taught Nick and me how to snowboard, and I spent the day tripping and falling down the beginner slopes. Had a great time, though just about every part of my body is sore as all hell today.

Went to sleep early, but not before playing an hour of Trauma Center, the DS ( Read more... )

Woman marries dolphin

Wow.

Heard about this from cychan (who saw it here). The essence of it is taking tasks that are hard for computers to do (like image labelling)and reformulating them in the form of fun web games to get people to complete them.

The ESP game matches you up with a random player and shows both of you the same image. You and your partner type in words (hidden ( Read more... )