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

Nintendogs

Yeah, I bought it. Nintendogs. I was worried that it was going to be really girly, but it turns out that it is only a little bit girly. I really like it though and would recommend it to a friend. It's only $30 and it uses the DS microphone. I got the Dachshund & Friends version. So there's 6 dogs to choose from: Miniature Dachshund, Golden Retriever, Beagle, Pug, Siberian Husky, and Shih Tzu.

I chose the Golden Retriver. He's pretty cool. I named him "Lucky". He comes when I call him and he knows the command "sit". I thought it was a pretty cool way to take advantage of the microphone.

It's a relaxing game. Maybe it'll get boring someday, but so far it's been nice to come home after a busy day, turn on the DS and go to the park and play frisbee with my dog. All virtually that is. Lucky's even won a couple frisbee competitions. He totally kicked butt at a competition last night. I gotta teach him some new tricks sometime.

So, in conclusion, Nintendogs is a fun game. If you get tired of shooting people, give it a try. Not as girly as you'd expect. I'd recommend it.

U of I Geologists

As the earth turns, the center of the earth turns even faster.

Confirming assertions first made in 1996, a team of geophysicists are presenting data in the journal Science today showing that the earth's inner core, a ball of solid iron larger than the moon, spins faster than the rest of the planet. Over a period of 700 to 1,200 years, the inner core appears to make one full extra spin.

That extra spin could give scientists information about how the earth generates its magnetic field.

The inner core, 1,500 miles wide, sits at the center of the planet, ensconced in a sea of hot liquid metal known as the outer core. With nothing to hold it in place, the inner core can rotate independently. Nearly a decade ago, two scientists at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University said it did just that.

Other scientists, however, questioned the analysis, which was based on the speed of earthquake waves passing through the earth. Subsequent attempts to pin down the inner core's rate of spinning produced a wide range of answers. Some said it spun, but at a much slower rate than the Columbia scientists claimed. Others said they could find no sign that the core was out of step with the other parts of the planet. Some said it seemed to be spinning at a slower rate, not faster.

The same researchers who made the original claim, Paul G. Richards and Xiaodong Song, now a professor of geology at the University of Illinois, led the new research, which they said should remove any remaining doubts.

While it does not precisely pin down how much more quickly the core is spinning, Dr. Song said, "what this particular paper shows is it cannot be zero."

The New York Times

Nintendo Revolution

So they say, "the Revolution is compatible with GameCube controllers." Dailygame.net

C. S. Lewis

If I have not directly helped the cause of reunion, I have perhaps made it clear why we ought to be reunited. Certainly I have met with little of the fabled odium theologicum from convinced members of communions different from my own. Hostility has come more from borderline people whether within the Church of England or without it: men not exactly obedient to any communion. This I find curiously consoling. It is at her centre, where her truest children dwell, that each communion is really closest to every other in spirit, if not in doctrine. And this suggests that at the centre of each there is a something, or a Someone, who against all divergencies of belief, all differences of temperament, all memories of mutual persecution, speaks with the same voice.

-C. S. Lewis

Update

The trip to Arizona was fun and summer is quickly coming to a close. During these next two days I hope to complete a variety of errends. Little things like taking out the trash and doing laundry and pretty big things like working out the details of full time employment after I graduate in December.

The new chicken sandwiches at McDonalds are bad. I wouldn't recommend them. Oklahoma toll roads are just as bad. I wouldn't recommend them either. Who ever heard of a three dollar and fifty cent toll. It's ridiculous. If that's their way of saying, "Welcome to Oklahoma," they can count me out next time. I'll go around before I do that again. I'd rather drive through Texas anyway.

Zelda won't be out till at least April 2006. Gamespot

In two days I'll drive back home to see my sister. She challenged me to tetris attack. Unless she's been training with some sort of tetris expert these past few months, I'm definately going to win pretty much every time. Tetris attack is a great game; I'd definately recommend it.

Just testing out my new phone.

Just testing out my new

Just testing out my new phone.