Nice, now you can buy L’OCCITANE at Amazon… 🙂
Grand Challenge
I went to a Carnegie Mellon alum event at the NASA Ames Research Center, Steve Wozniak was their MC, it was good to see Woz in person. Prof Red gave an awesome presentation, it was refreshing to see someone who loves his job so much.
It is less than 100 hours to DARPA Grand Challenge, best of luck to the CMU Red Team!!
iPod in House
Watching House on TiVo right now, it’s cool they featured a 3G iPod. 🙂
crib
seoulfully asked for some pics of my new place, so I just took some and posted them here, quality wasn’t that great, I used the EOS batch processing program to turn the RAWs into JPEGs. Obviously, I am missing a dining table, Ikea was out of stock. I also need to find a big rug for my “study”, which is supposed to be a dining room, but I don’t need a dining room…
catching up on unread RSS feed
I have more than 1k unread articles, I’m tempted to do “mark all read”… 🙂
busy weekend
Haven’t had time to blog, life’s been crazy, last weekend was spent doing these:
- picked up sherry from airport
- moved from hotel to condo (this took a couple of days)
- getting TiVo to perform initial setup without a phone line
- drove up to SF to have dinner with Jen
- rented a Penske truck, drove to Costco for a TV and Ikea for furniture for the entire condo
- move all the stuff from the truck to the condo, this was not easy
- assemble furniture
- bought and setup A/V stuff, got the Onkyo HT-S780 system for $399 at Fry’s. Jason helped me move the huge box with his family van, he also helped with the cables and to organize them, thanks Jason!
- figure out what A/V cables I need, ordered them from eBay
- bought more shit from Amazon, I definitely make good use of my Amazon Prime membership
- more furniture assembling
- unpack boxes
- unpack clothes, still unpacking some
- drove sherry to airport, flight was overbooked, so drove her back with a $350 AA voucher… nice…
- got a car wash at a hand wash place
I guess part of the problem of living in a brand new place is that some things don’t work. My dishwasher stops in the middle of a cycle, the problem was not the dishwasher itself, but I suspect it was the fusebox or whatever circuitry that thing has… apparently after I turn it on the power outlet cuts power… I swapped the garbage disposal and dishwasher plugs, and it worked… I emailed my landlord to get that fixed… I use my dishwasher and disposal almost every day so this is kindda annoying…
The door bell stopped working all the sudden, I’m not sure why, the switch used to lit up, now there is no light, and the chime doesn’t work… This doesn’t bother me much, as people can just knock on the f’king door… But the lit-switch looks kindda cool at night…
My building’s lights in the hallways are completely off, it’s f’king dark walking around here…
Work is crazy too… I’m definitely living life… LOL…
meebo
I found meebo and I’ve been using it tonight, it’s pretty damn impressive!! Check it out!
Would be nice to have an SSL connection too, I’d imagine a lot of ppl would use it to bypass their work’s firewalls!
iPod nano torturing
iPod nano torturing
damn, poor iPod nano… I kindda want a black one, but I must resist… it’ll only fit like 15 CDs in lossless format anyway… hehehe…
Oh weird, Amazon Prime not showing again!
So it didn’t work, and it did, and after 5 minutes or so, it stopped working again!! 😉
Amazon Prime working again
Amazon Prime was kindda broken during lunch, I just went there to check the status of my orders and looks like they fixed the problem:
