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Archives
Thoughts on College Football
An eclectic mix of thoughts as Leigh Ann and I get ready to head to Memorial Stadium to watch the number one Buckeyes take on the non-so-number-one Illini this Saturday with my mom and some friends. Last time we saw the Buckeyes play here, they won the National Championship (2002)…hopefully history repeats this year [...]
Acapella Laughing of Jingle Bells
This was a video that a family friend made for my dad for Christmas about 15 years ago. It’s just now making its YouTube debut:
The ACM Conference Talks
The student chapter of the ACM hosts a rather impressive student led conference here at UIUC every year. This year, Leigh Ann and I went to four of the talks they had.
Joel Spolsky: He writes a well-known blog in the tech community and is the CEO of Fog Creek Software. He was a [...]
Links for 2006-10-16 to 2006-10-22
( Cool Sites )
Lost Easter Eggs
(del.icio.us tags: tv blog)
How to detect lies – body language, reactions, speech patterns
(del.icio.us tags: advice lifehacks howto)
So Many Free TV Episodes and Movies, So Little Time
A list of sites other than YouTube that have TV episodes.
(del.icio.us tags: free tv video)
Pigskin Pick’Em
OK, after a few busy weekends, let’s try to pick some college football games again and see how I do.
Illinois at Penn St.: (Line is Penn St. by 18.5) The Illini seem to have done better on the road. But, the Illini are just in shambles. Do I give them the line or [...]
Links for 2006-10-09 to 2006-10-15
( Cool Sites )
Get Free Downloads on the iTunes Store!
(del.icio.us tags: free itunes)
NCAA Football – 2006 TV Schedule
(del.icio.us tags: sports tv)
LetsTalk.com: Compare Cell Phone Prices
(del.icio.us tags: comparison phone reviews)
Illini Madness
Last night, we went to Illini Madness, Illinois basketball’s annual kick-off event. It was kind of sad not to see Dee Brown there since he’s been around pretty much my whole time at UIUC (he’s with the Utah Jazz now). Unfortunately, there were no surprise appearances by Dee or Deron Williams or Luther [...]
Ethan Albright vs. John Madden
This is quite possibly the funniest thing that I’ve read all year. It’s a fictitious letter by Redskins long-snapper Ethan Albright to John Madden concerning the fact that Albright is the lowest overall rated player in the Madden 07 video game.
I have received the impression that you feel that I am lacking in the [...]
The Illini Get Screwed
Well, Midnight Madness was bittersweet tonight (photos to come shortly). There was definitely a lot more spirit than the football homecoming pep rally last week and we got to see Jeremy Piven (a.k.a. Ari Gold from Entourage) judge the Illini’s slam dunk contest. But the biggest news of the day is undoubtedly that [...]
Links for 2006-10-02 to 2006-10-08
( Cool Sites )
Rentometer
Enter an address and get rental comparison prices back.
(del.icio.us tags: comparison housing money realestate)
Google Code Search
Search the Internet for source code.
(del.icio.us tags: google search code programming tools)
Stevey’s Home Page – The Five Essential Phone-Screen Questions
An overview of five recommended areas that phone screens should cover (coding, OO design,scripting and regexes, data structures, bits and bytes).
(del.icio.us [...]
Pumpkin Carving
In yet another learning experience this weekend, we were introduced to pumpkin carving kits. Admittedly, this does make the process quite a bit more fun since you can carve something that actually looks pretty good as opposed to the traditional triangle-eyed pumpkin face.
I’ve put our pics up from the evening, which include several of [...]
The Darndest Thing
Sometimes you just learn something that shakes your entire concept of reality. Last night, someone was telling us about a kid she went to college with who was black but had two white parents. After the obligatory “milkman’s baby jokes”, we decided to look it up. According to genetics experts, this isn’t [...]
Links for 2006-09-25 to 2006-10-01
( Cool Sites )
Members of Congress: Senate | Congress votes database | washingtonpost.com
(del.icio.us tags: database reference politics)
Engineering at Illinois inCircle
Social networking site exclusively for UIUC engineering alums.
(del.icio.us tags: business social uiuc)
btjunkie – the largest bittorrent search engine
(del.icio.us tags: bittorrent p2p)
My Asia Trip: Part 2
( Our Life )
This is better late than never….
When I left off my trip last week I was getting ready to head to Taiwan. On Friday morning I slept in and then got ready to go to the airport. It was about an hour taxi ride from my hotel in Shanghai to the airport. My [...]