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 [...]
Today I went to the KAUST beach. I went into the water wearing my shoes to protect my feet from the sharp coral reef I was walking on. The water is crazy salty, actually the saltiest place in the global ocean system. You can float with your shoulders exposed. I also flew a kite and [...]
The 200th South Park was so classy, although I think next week might be Terrance and Philip (in keeping with this episode’s theme of repeating themes) instead of a picture of the prophet Muhammad, blessings and peace be upon him. My favorite line was Jesus saying “Buddha, stop doing coke when the kids are around.” [...]
A recent poll found that Ron Paul is the best Republican to go up against Obama in 2012 (if the election were held today). This seems as crazy as Dennis Kucinich being the president, but it’s understandable because somebody like me could, in theory, vote for Paul. I feel that it will be Pawlenty and [...]
This was the introduction to a speech given in the film Up In The Air before someone was fired. Technically it’s more like I was never hired. It feels strange that I am kinda okay with it. This video has helped me get through it. Denial – Early March was filled with the notion that [...]
I finally found out that the University of Colorado at Boulder “didn’t recommend” me. Arizona told me a few days ago. I don’t hold out hope for Florida, nor did I want to live in Orlando. At least it took them three months to say no.
ASUS is a brand you may never have heard of, but they are a manufacturers manufacturer. Dell, Sony, and HP will subcontract them to build computers because thats what they do – so you easily could already have one. They also have the best hardware reliability of any maker. They have horrible advertising and a [...]
In neighboring Yemen a 13-year-old girl was married to a 23-year-old man (source). She was raped to death by him. Her mother had tried to persuade the girl to have sex with her elderly husband so as not to shame the family. The doctors refused to give her a tranquilizer to prevent her from resisting, [...]
Haraam (Islamic NON-kosher) has some bad news as revealed through the prophet Colbert on The Colbert Report. Cigarettes use swine blood in the filters and soda pop has alcohol in it. I don’t know where the law comes down on smoking pork or trace amounts of alcohol (0.1-0.5%). We just need to do what Colbert [...]
The University of Minnesota’s new football stadium, the TCF Bank Stadium, is again debating offering alcohol for sale in the stadium. The problem is they only want to sell it to the premium boxes and not to the masses in the stands. It is elitist. Currently there is an all-or-nothing law that it either be [...]
Humanity when viewed a few steps back is shaping up to be the latest mass extinction. From the mammoths of North America that happened to disappear the same time Native Americans showed up to the dodos that didn’t flinch one bit as they were slaughtered by humans and their nests preyed on by dogs, rats, and [...]
How is it that tiny scraps of cobbled together DNA can cause diseases that can bring down otherwise healthy people? It is the same reason why people don’t live forever and why we get cancer. It is the best strategy to be naturally selected. A species will go extinct from stagnation if there isn’t an [...]