Cool, now I can take a picture with my phone and post it on my blog.

Happy Halloween

Short 3 minute movie by my room mate and me.

Even Newer Book

I got another new book. It's called, "Multivariate Statistical Modelling Based on Generalized Linear Models." It's over my head, but hopefully that just means it has a lot of good stuff in it. So, it should be good. I'd recommend it to anyone familiar with linear models, but looking for something more generalized.

I saw the movie, "Proof," last night. It's got a mathematician that goes crazy in it. If I ever go insane it will at least, perhaps, mean that I am finally becoming a good mathematician. Overall it was just an ok movie, I wouldn't really recommend it. The whole time I was like, "Come on, when are they going to show the proof?!" They didn't show it until the very end. And even then, just a couple pages of it. I would have liked to see a little more of the proof, but maybe the movie was targeting people that "aren't that in to proofs."

New Book

I bought the book, "Where the Wild Things Are" today. It's a great book. I'd recommend it. I had my room mate read it out loud to me (not the room mate that's the Psychology PhD student, the other one). He enjoyed it. He liked the part where all the wild things were acting fierce and Max is just sitting there all unimpressed.

Movies

The first half of Wallace and Gromit is pretty good. I fell asleep about half way through, not because it was boring, just because I was tired. The best part was, however, the short clip before the movie started - a five minute segment with the penguins from madagascar. I didn't stop laughing from start to finish. It was really hilarious. It's worth the price of the movie ticket just to go see a penguin slap a blowling pin in the face and say, "I'll deal with you later." It's really good. I would definately recommend it. Even if you go see another movie, it'll be tempting to sneak into wallace and gromit just to watch the penguin clip.

Pyramids

A pretty cool picture of the pyramids in Egypt.

Why study when you can write a blog

It's getting late. I've been studying as much as I can these past few days. I have a big test tomorrow. The chapter is called, "Survival Distributions and Life Tables," but that's just a fancy way of saying "Chapter 3: A few uninspiring reasons to memorize lots of formulas". It's late now though. I'm leaving in a few minutes to pick my roommate up and I'm getting too tired to do some serious studying. We get to use a formula sheet, so if I make a good formula sheet, there shouldn't be very much memorizing at all. In your face, Chapter 3!

I caved in and got the internet for my phone. It's kind of cool, but slow and unreliable. Kind of like a Tortoise that never keeps commitments.

An ape using a branch.

Check out the article at: news.bbc.co.uk

The Geddup Noise

Funny, funny, funny:

http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail136.html

"It's positively dreamy."

Be sure to click on the chair at the end.

The Wall Street Journal

The WSJ is undescribably bad. I got five papers this past year. That's it, just five. Not five a week, five total. I'm pretty sure I subscribed to more than five papers. Yes, I did call and tell them. And no, they didn't do anything about it. But don't worry, I will definately recommend the WSJ for people that want a yearly subscription that consists of 5 papers a year.

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Tuition

I paid my last tuition bill on firday. When I first got there the line wasn't too long, so they had three registers open. After about 10 minutes the line started to get really long so they let one of the cashiers go home. It'll be less confusing with only two registers I guess.

I saw "Roll Bounce" and "Flight Plan" saturday night. I think roll bounce was better. If you have to pick only one to see, I'd recommend "Roll Bounce". Don't take it too seriously though. Best movie about roller skating that I've seen in a long time, that's for sure. If you're looking for a movie about roller skating, don't go see flight plan. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure Flight Plan doesn't have any roller skating in it at all. ... I don't think it even mentions roller skating. The writers of flight plan definately didn't have roller skaters as their target audience.

Now for all you Airplane fans out there - I'd recommend flight plan.

XBOX

http://www.joystiq.com/entry/1234000100059811/

Another veteran of the video games industry has something to say about Nintendo’s newly revealed controller – and it is praise from a surprising source. Peter Moore, vice president of all things Xbox, told gamesindustry.biz recently that he hopes the Revolution will “bring people in that, as Iwata-san said, are either lapsed gamers or gamers that are intimidated by the complexity of the controller.”

Of course he would want more consumers in the games industry (especially those that might later consider picking up an Xbox 360). However you interpret his statement, it does come in stark contrast to a certain Sony head honcho and his feelings on a certain Nintendo console.

Full article.

Google Print and a mission to the moon

Just two things today.

Roman numeral one: Google Print, has a search engine that let's you search books. It's kind of cool. A lot of the classic books are already online anyway. I'm not sure how many books it actually has available for searching. The more the merrier I guess.

Roman numeral two: We're going to the moon.

NASA planning moon launch for 2018

It will cost $104 billion over the next decade to send astronauts back to the moon, NASA's chief said Monday, defending the price tag as an investment the nation can afford despite the expense of Hurricane Katrina.

www.chinadaily.com

I guess Hurricane Katrina thought it could stop us from doing something 13 years from now. Well, think again Katrina. As long as there are no more big hurricanes during the next 13 years everything should continue as planned.

One more article on you-know-what

Here is one more article from our good friends at www.g4tv.com. Don't forget, the Nintendo Revolution has 4 Game Cube Controller ports. So, if a third party isn't interested in motion sensors and all that, it's totally not a problem.

I'm definately looking forward to it.

IGN

http://cube.ign.com/articles/651/651275p1.html

It is essentially a wireless, square remote that works something like a computer mouse would in 3D space.

Thanks to http://360.yahoo.com/afullzip

Ok, So, ... Hmmm.... Interesting.

So I guess it works for left handed people too. To get all the details go to: www.macworld.com

Review of "The March of the Penguins"

I really liked "The March of the Penguins", but this review is really funny.

really bad
by rosenb499

I thought the movie was really bad. I mean, I do like penguins, but not that much that I would want to see a movie about them. The movie seemed like one of those movies that you watch at school or something. I guess you really have to be into penguins to really like the movie. In my opion, don't go see it.

Lol, this is great. I like the part, "I guess you really have to be into penguis." Who would have thought so many people were "really into penguins"? Oh man, we need more people like rosenb499.

A little midnight snack.

So, in case anyone was wondering if there are any useless things or people out there, ... there are. I had one of each tonight. Number one on my list of useless things is the print option for Matlab. Evidently, if you don't want your graphs to print out, just go to file and click on print. This is especially useful when you have a homework assignment that you have to print graphs for. It's also really great the way the computers are on the fourth floor and the printer is in the basement.

If Matlab's print option doesn't meet all your printing needs, there's more. If you ever want the guy that works in the lab to sit at his desk and not do anything, just ask him if he can help you print something out. He's really good at not getting up and doing anything useful. So, there you have it. Two especially useless things.

The evening wasn't a complete loss. After stopping to get a delicious milk shake at steak and shake on the way home, it's now 12:30am and I get to do the homework assignment again. This time I get use my own math program, Maple, which is (when it comes to printing options) infinitely better than lousy Matlab. Maple is a fabulous program and I would definately recommend it. My printer is similar to the ones on campus. The only feature that my printer has that the ones on campus don't have is the PRINT option. You'd be surprised how often that comes in handy.

Anyway, I'm a little bitter, but fortunately I'm getting better at ignoring lots and lots of things.

Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca

I finished the Laguna Seca Raceway in 2:30.287. Check it out at www.laguna-seca.com. Helio Castroneves has the current record. The thought that I might be able to beat his record someday is just one of the reasons why I would recommend Grand Turismo 4 for the Playstation 2 and video games in general.

A quote from Dan

It's not funner than going off a ramp on a bike.

-Dan, September 9th, 1990