Insanely Awe-dical

Billy: "I'm off. I'm supposed to be in Florence by midnight"
Turk: "How the hell you going to do that?"
Billy: "Her apartment is 2 blocks away. It should be no problem."

Scrubs was pretty funny this week =)

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

omfg. 1440 pages of awesomeness. 3 hardcover volumes of perhaps the most insightful, clever, naively brilliant comic ever. Wonderful political comments and subtle intelligence and thoughts. A great comic, and an incrediblely delicious collection.

I love this comic.

Premiere Date Confirmed

The premiere date for the new season of Family Guy has finally been confirmed. No more “FOX 2005” for us. Oh no, we have a date AND a time. The season premiere of Family Guy season 4 will take place on Sunday, May 1st 9/8c on FOX. Mark your calendars and buckle up… only 104 days to go!

I finally finished my Digital Logic Design homework, and I cracked out this electronic 2-input AND circuit (using only NAND gates) to show Kate and Brian.

here's the truth table:

A B | Middle Output | Output
----------------------------------
0 0 | 1 | 0
0 1 | 1 | 0
1 0 | 1 | 0
1 1 | 0 | 1

Brian and Kate =)

Spyware got you? Check out how secure your browser is, and what you can do to fix it.

This is a great website. Tells you how secure (or insecure) your website is, and a good detailed instruction on how to use a relatively-difficult tool (compared to Ad-Aware and SpyBot) HijackThis. As the website says -- an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Either make sure your IE is up to date (the computer at my internship is updated and has zero browser security weaknesses), or you use Firefox (I'm told Safari is pretty damn secure also, but users should still check).

There's two new Apple Products out: The Mac Mini and the iPod Shuffle

Mac Mini is basically a very small compact computer; much like the Shuttle PCs. iPod shuffle is basically the iPod at smaller sizes (512mb for $100, 1gb for $150), with a weird new ad campaign where people don't like to choose the songs they hear. Apparently, it takes random songs from your iTunes, and plays them at random.

Part of me is excited to see Apple come out with new products, but it's basically a smaller Shuttle PC and a new iPod mini. The Mac Mini does make a semi-good argument to do computer-switching with its reference to the Belkin switch, which basically allows you to hit a button to allow your monitor/mouse/keyboard to work with two different computers.

Sometimes I feel like I'm going to be like Roger when I'm older. I love Foxtrot. It's got this 5 character family, and everyone has their own weird things about them. Now pair any combination or two, three, or even all five of them for some great comedy writing. It isn't quite as "huh...really makes you think" kind of writing, but just good clever stuff.

School is getting busy, and I'm happy with how its going. The TV Tuner isn't working out as well as I'd hoped, and my thoughts on the server are faltering. I've decided to focus my energies on the shows that I watch and the PS2 games I have yet to play (or are currently playing), as opposed to the strong urge I've hard to upgrade my computer for whatever reason.

Modix HD-3510: The USB hard drive box becomes a DVD player!

This looks freaking awesome. Basically, it is a usb external hard drive with a dvd decoder in it. It has the flexibility to connect to a computer via usb for normal drive usage, and to connect to a tv for video watching. Unfortunately the set above alone (read: NO HARD DRIVE INCLUDED) over 200 bucks.

I wonder if there is some hardware like a usb to dvd-decoder converter.

First week of school has come and gone. I'm excited about this quarter. So excited I did homework on a Friday night. No, I am not drunk...

beware....the following is unplanned roommate retarded ridiculuousness:

Me (11:53:15 PM): Bozasm
Romes (11:53:19 PM): BOZASM
Me (11:53:30 PM): BOOMSHAKALAKALAKALAKA
Romes (11:53:31 PM): BOOOM SHAKALAKA!!!!!!!!

Note the timestamps.

"I saw the ad for electric scissors during an episode of The Simple Life, which is a show that glorifies these two rich giggling cunts who have no respect for anybody -- just vile people, awful human beings, who get away with everything cause they're rich! And the blond will blow you apparently. But here's the thing -- I saw that ad for electric scissors during one of the highest rated shows in America about these rich fuckin mean pieces of shit, and I vowed I would retain that image every time I hear George Bush say 'The terrorists hate our freedom.' You know what? I hate our freedom!"

-- David Cross (of Mr. Show, the title character in Run, Ronnie, Run, and Tobias from Arrested Development)

His comedy is pretty decent. A quick IMDB search showed he was in MIB 1 and 2 (Newton; the character escapes me, but I think he was the dweeb who owned the video store in the second one), and lent his voice to GTA:SA and Halo 2.

New years day was fun. Started off by watching the floats for the Rose Parade (first time ever for me). Interested to see how the marching bands played all-american tunes, as a sort of glad-to-be-an-American kind of way. America the Beautiful was followed by fan favorite September. An interesting song played was Outkast's Hey Ya. I'm glad to know that if KBIG plays it, its good enough for the Rose Parade.

Happy anni to Kate! 3 years and 9 months =)