Sunday, April 27, 2008
Finals Week and EWB Project
It is finals week at Washington State University right now and it is hectic, I've got an exam lined up for each of the following days Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. This is even a lite semester, next fall is going to be a full load not to mention quite the nightmare. Yesterday, my friend and I went to open to close at the ZZU, for mechanical engineering ASME, meeting a few friends there, then we went to Mike's aka Stubblefields down to the dance floor, it turns out I knew the bouncer and we got into the basement dance without even waiting in the line. After waking up late today, Andy, Jaclyn and I got together and went over the viable options for the EWB at WSU chapter and looked at the safety of the countries, the travel costs, the professional contracts and advisors, as well as personal preference and we found that the project that best fit up was the Santa Cruz, Ecuador project. Now we will need to lock in the project by writing the proposal and filling out the paperwork for the project and other logistics. Onward to studying so I can pass my classes, Bon voyage.
Saturday, April 05, 2008
Hanners-logic, Bookmarks, Afganisu-tan, and 21
Been reading an awesome comic Questionable Content, it is witty and funny. I've been trying to catch up starting from the beginning, and I like how the art style has slowly changed, the obscure Indy culture references are both off putting and funny at the same time, and the Coffee house of Doom sounds like the perfect anti-culture to Starbucks. Oh and Hanners-logic is awesome.
Some other bookmarks I keep track of are, Penny-arcade perhaps the most renown, Red vs Blue of the Halo machinima fame, MegaTokyo for the anime and quirky inside references, XKCD a favorite of mine, for it's engineer's style inside humor - its like what Dilbert has always wanted to do, Weregeek for the geek humor with the LARPing and D&D culture, WaiterRant for the brutal hilarity that ensues in the restaurants of America, and finally TokyoMango for the quirky insights of Japan, reminding me of Taiwan which seems to be caught between the two cultures of America and Japan.
Saw on TokyoMango, the Japanese take on the middle east, Afganisu-tan (and friends), now as everyone knows the Japanese can take anything on earth and turn it into something unbelievably cute, and this is no exception. Imagine taking one of the longest running conflicts in the world, and turning all the countries into cute manga characters and you got yourself this comic.
Just got back from watching 21, one of those "based on true story" movies, although there are huge flaws in some of the logic, it is an awesome movie, it is a movie that you need to just sit back and enjoy, cause if you try to take it apart - it will not hold up for long, especially during the parts were the directors probably think majority of the audience is not going to understand - so as a tech guy and an engineer I had to ignore the fact that the technical parts, one of which was used as a reason for a dramatic argument between nerds, was implausible - I decided that I just needed to enjoy and stop analyzing. Still I seem to be down on this movie too much, however Kevin Spacey shines as always, even though the Mace Windu thing doesn't work in Las Vegas; this movie always has you cheering on the protagonists in the movie. Finally it leaves you with a smile and really at the end of the day it is hard to top that.
Some other bookmarks I keep track of are, Penny-arcade perhaps the most renown, Red vs Blue of the Halo machinima fame, MegaTokyo for the anime and quirky inside references, XKCD a favorite of mine, for it's engineer's style inside humor - its like what Dilbert has always wanted to do, Weregeek for the geek humor with the LARPing and D&D culture, WaiterRant for the brutal hilarity that ensues in the restaurants of America, and finally TokyoMango for the quirky insights of Japan, reminding me of Taiwan which seems to be caught between the two cultures of America and Japan.
Saw on TokyoMango, the Japanese take on the middle east, Afganisu-tan (and friends), now as everyone knows the Japanese can take anything on earth and turn it into something unbelievably cute, and this is no exception. Imagine taking one of the longest running conflicts in the world, and turning all the countries into cute manga characters and you got yourself this comic.
Just got back from watching 21, one of those "based on true story" movies, although there are huge flaws in some of the logic, it is an awesome movie, it is a movie that you need to just sit back and enjoy, cause if you try to take it apart - it will not hold up for long, especially during the parts were the directors probably think majority of the audience is not going to understand - so as a tech guy and an engineer I had to ignore the fact that the technical parts, one of which was used as a reason for a dramatic argument between nerds, was implausible - I decided that I just needed to enjoy and stop analyzing. Still I seem to be down on this movie too much, however Kevin Spacey shines as always, even though the Mace Windu thing doesn't work in Las Vegas; this movie always has you cheering on the protagonists in the movie. Finally it leaves you with a smile and really at the end of the day it is hard to top that.
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