Archive for June 2008

17 Jun 2008 1524H

Funny thing on the way to the conference room…

As we were scrounging around for a meeting space today, one of the Infosys guys told me something a manager once told him: if you go to work at a company that has lots of available meeting rooms, then either they are super organized about how they schedule meetings, or there is not a lot [...]

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16 Jun 2008 0540H

List of Mazda3 Upgrades

On the list of upgrades, scratch two this week, I think:

Repaint chips and scratches, clear bra.
Replace stock horn

The stock horn is pretty anemic, so probably this will be replaced by a PIAA dual-tone 115dB horn.

Replace stock wipers with silicone.

I think it will either be PIAA or Silblade. Silblade makes these colored ones, but, none [...]

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14 Jun 2008 1937H

And that’s a wrap for Galactica this year

Mid-season hiatus, and also, partly due to the writers’ strike, they only filmed 11 episodes before the strike started. While it was still a great episode, still felt a bit of an anticlimax, compared to the previous episode, but considering that this show could have served as the series finale, there was a somewhat real [...]

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14 Jun 2008 1928H

The fist bump?

As a young martial artist, we often bumped heavily foam-padded fists (since we could not easily shake hands) with opponents in the ring as a way of extending respect. Probably this is where we got that gesture. Yet the amount of pundit time being spent on it due to the Obamas is rather ridiculous. I’d [...]

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11 Jun 2008 0626H

Asian Americans in higher ed, and . . . something else

The NYT published an article (also talked about in the LA Times) about this College Board study today: Asian Americans are not clustering in the STEM (science, tech, engineering, and medicine) fields anymore, but rather in business, management, social sciences and humanities. The STEM PhDs went to overseas students — only 20% of the degrees [...]

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06 Jun 2008 2122H

Galactica, Season 4, Week 9

While I’m busy working up a post on Fukudome, what the frak happened last week? Oh well. This week, all is forgiven. Jacob, of Television Without Pity fame, sums up the episodes for Week 8:
In the last week I’ve been assured, with a straight face, that consideration and investigation of our entertainment is cheating; that [...]

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04 Jun 2008 1655H

19 years

But I haven’t forgotten.
Those people need to be brought to justice. For that. And for this.

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03 Jun 2008 0652H

Hmm

On the work blog it sometimes takes me a while to get stuff done. That long post took pretty much about a week to get through just working a few hours on it each night, capture of images, editing, commentary, so on. Probably best to release something like that in installments.
And how did it [...]

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01 Jun 2008 0630H

Fruit that changes the flavor of things

In New York — only in New York — they are even hosting “flavor tripping” parties.
He believes that the best way to encounter the fruit is in a group. “You need other people to benchmark the experience,” he said. At his first party, a small gathering at his apartment in January, guests murmured with [...]

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