I have been back a week and have done nothing. Nothing at all. Only today did I plug in my two hand-crafted desktops to find out both suffer from some undiagnosable problem. I bought a subwoofer that is 10 inches, not 1o centimeters: shaking the neighbor, not just the house. Otherwise I’ve been fulfilling my [...]
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I just got back from 48 hour trip to Jordan that I went on suddenly and without really knowing which country I was going to. I swam in the dead sea. Covered myself in black mud. Almost broke down on a back road. Saw Petra (Indiana Jones with Sean Connery cliff-carved monument). Helped an elderly [...]
With only three episodes left, the LOST epic is about to come to an end. The final will be 2½ hours – so a movie. Spoiler alert: up till US airings – The last episode killed off several main characters. It was a bit strange that only white cast members have survived: Jack, Kate, Hurley, [...]
This is a graph I made of my total storage capacity over time. Please note the combination of my KAUST full-scholarship with the rise of high-definition video caused a massive boost in 2008. Yes, those are terabytes (1,000 GB). 5,136,000,000 B of total storage left out three “0″s, I currently have: 5,136,000,000,000 Bytes 41 trillion [...]
The above image is of a very cool 16 TB NAS (Network Attached Storage) made to look like an old floppy disc box. A NAS can provide for file sharing/backup, printer hosting, internet site server, and can double as a regular computer. You don’t need one probably unless you want to be able to stream [...]
Conan O’Brien has become a martyr of comedy.
I watch Parks and Recreation partially because of Nick Offerman, who plays Ron Swanson. The character’s only goal as head of the parks and recreation department of Pawnee, Indiana is to close down the Parks department. He performs the lost art of deadpan perfectly. In a recent episode his character built a canoe. My sleep [...]
This summer I am planning a trip to Glacier National Park in northwestern Montana (let me know if you want onboard). It seems very tragic, but I want to see them before they go away. I’ve been to the park before for a family vacation, but want to go camping this time. It is crazy [...]
Lloyd Blankfein, Chairman and CEO of Goldman-Sachs, looks like a Bond villain.
I have recently been going through the xkcd archives. It was so painful to learn about “F” after all these years, but it was so empowering to go back to play – and finally outrun that damn monster!
I won the KAUST electrical engineering department student IEEE chapter website competition prize of 500SAR ($133 USD). I was the only person who entered. I know I have some alignment and style issues. It took seven hours of work. STUDENT.BRANCH
The online play for the original xbox, xbox live, is being shut down. Microsoft is not kicking people off, you just can’t reconnect. A few good men (and maybe a women) are keeping the dream alive by constantly being connected to Halo 2′s online play. 11 are left. In high school I co-owned an xbox. [...]
Big tech blogs are hugely entertain to me, but they are extremely biased. This is not the Fox “News” or MSNBC political stuff. Gizmodo and Engadget just want you to buy stuff in jingoistic consumer-patriotism. In one respect they just want people to buy new technology in general to promote the consumer electronics industry and [...]
Synsepalum dulcificum, or Miracle Fruit, has berries when eaten that turn sour taste into sweet. I had some the other day. It is so strange to eat a lemon to have it taste like pure sugar. Hot sauce is insufferable. Bison (what Red Bull is called here) can wash down any taste. Snozzberries do still [...]