IEEE Spectrum: Unsafe At Any Airspeed?

Well, I usually enjoy reading about research done by CMU people, but I didn’t like Dan Stancil when I was there. His wireless communications class was a complete joke! Almost everyone scored 99% in the first 3 tests coz we just like plugged in numbers into the equations. I think I got a C in my mid-term report because I screwed up on one question and only got a 98%. I told him that was pretty screwed up because it didn’t test how much we actually knew but just how careful we were plugging in numbers, he didn’t give a shit. He also decided that to have a nice grades distribution he needed to make the final f’king impossible (unless your dissertation was on wireless communication or antenna design, and I was not one of them), that was a totally screwed up class, completely worthless. That was definitely the worst class I took at CMU by far.

That said, he’s probably a great researcher and he probably publishes great work, having all degrees from MIT or something like that…

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For those considering getting an MBA (including myself), Rajesh‘s free eBook is a must-read…

Life Beyond Code :: FREE eBook – “When you can’t earn an MBA…”

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Everywhere girl found at Microsoft
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If I ever see the guys who f’king did this I would f’king strangle them to death. Too sad, poor Princess!! RIP! 🙁

Two men randomly steal and then strangle dog :

Lea Dunn ? a 25-year-old molecular biologist who raised the 2.9-pound Princess from a pup ? said she and her boyfriend were taking a friend home Thursday night when two men pushed their way past them as they entered the lobby of the friend’s apartment complex in the 100 block of Montecito Avenue, near Lake Merritt.

KTVU.com – News – Armed Bandits Strangle Oakland Pet :

Two men stole a Yorkshire Terrier named Princess at gunpoint from a couple in the lobby of an apartment building and strangled the pup as they fled, police said.

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Caught the new RW Key West when I was working out in the gym, that Russian chick Svetlana is pretty hot! diam! According to Wikipedia, she’s a 19-year-old pre-med student. 😆

And dude, that blonde chick got some SERIOUS issues!! WTF?!

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… and it is even slower in Safari… Took me around 40 minutes to f’king file my taxes… well, at least I don’t have to pay taxes this year, I guess I would’ve had to pay had I not moved to California… 😀 Well, you lose either way when you work for ppl… I got my effective tax rate down to around 18%, not too bad I guess… heh…

For those who are still procrastinating on doing your taxes (well, if you’ve done it and found out you have to pay, then yeah, pay as late as possible, maybe even file an extension or 2), don’t forget to include your donations (like to Katrina, your clothes to Goodwill, Wikipedia, your alma mater), moving expenses, and SALES TAX!! I don’t think the sales tax did much to my bottom line though…

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Got an email from eLuxury introducing the new LV Monogram Perforation Collection, man this thing is ugly!!

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The Economics Of Prostitution – Forbes.com:

Becker used market analysis to tackle the questions of whom, when and why we marry. His conclusions? Mate selection is a market, and marriages occur only if they are profitable for both parties involved.

Becker allowed nonmonetary elements, like romantic love and companionship, to be entered into courtship’s profit and loss statement. And children, in particular, were important. “Sexual gratification, cleaning, feeding and other services can be purchased, but not children: Both the man and the woman are required to produce their own children and perhaps to raise them,” he wrote.

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“The third alternative, working in a regular job but not marrying, can be ruled out, since we assume that the only downside of marriage for a woman is the forgone opportunity for prostitution.”

Man, these economists are whacked!

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Scotsman.com News – Health – Lifestyle pills that promise to end the need for sleep:

It is claimed that the range of lifestyle pills will abolish the need for sleep for days at a time by creating a form of sleep that offers the benefits of a good night’s rest in a fraction of the time.

Nice, I definitely need to get in on this pill when it comes out… Sleep is such a waste of time, and as I got older, I seem to need more of it. It sucks!