One month ago, on November 7th, Chrystie and I went to the Humane Society (HSSV) in Milpitas to adopt a cat. We both had wanted a cat for some time, but I had always found reasons to put off getting one. This was mostly due to my fear of the cat eating the cords to […]
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I consider myself pretty thrifty, and I strive to make my life as simple as possible as cheaply as possible. That said, I invite you to take a gander (if you haven’t already) at 10 awesome free apps and services that I’ve come across. All apps run on Windows, Mac and Linux unless otherwise specified.
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Today is the 10,000th day I have been alive. As a fan of big round numbers, I find this is very cool. I’m sure for most people this day comes and goes without notice, just another day in their 27th year of existence, and had it not been for a boring train ride to a
A while back, Chrystie was listening to an interview with Eli Roth, writer and director of Hostel, Hostel II, Grindhouse, and some other good gory movies. When asked about his influences, he mentioned a movie called Cannibal Holocaust, which piqued Chrystie’s interest, so I found the 1980s movie by Italian director Ruggero Deodato and we
Just for kicks, and inspired by this xkcd comic, I wrote a program to output the number of Google search results for a search using various variables. After running several searches, I learned that automated queries are against Google’s Terms of Service. Regardless, here are a few results:
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On April 14th the Sharks began their playoff run, and I began growing my playoff beard – a recent tradition among athletes and fans that I began doing during the Sharks short-lived playoff run last year. The gist of the playoff beard is, when your team enters the playoffs you shave, and you don’t shave
Well, it’s the end of an era. Last Friday I went into Best Buy and bought the Droid Incredible – just the third cell phone I have ever owned. My LG C2000 clamshell phone with the Cingular logo still on it was just not cutting it anymore. The C2000 has been at my side (in
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A few days ago, I was looking up the history of webpages for another blog post and came across the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. The Internet Archive was something I had heard of before, but the Wayback Machine was surprisingly new to me. Being into computers and an appreciator of history, I found this site
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