Published on December 28, 2007
in books.
This Christmas, my family decided to make me very literate. They gave me the following books, which I plan to read over the course of the next few months:
I can’t wait to get started! I’ll be blogging about my interesting reading experiences as they happen.
In the last two weeks, I’ve shifted from keeping all my emails, contacts, and calendars on my computer (using Apple’s Mail, Address Book, and iCal) to Google’s well-implemented suite of online applications. I’m pretty satisfied with the results: Now I can get at my important data from any computer I’m using, as long as it’s got an internet connection. This way, I don’t have to lug my 17″ laptop around wherever I go.
I’ve always been a big fan of Google’s products. Even more so than Apple, they seem to really understand the needs of their users. Their interfaces seem to be comfortable for n00bs and experienced users alike. That said, the more I use Google’s apps, the more I want from them that I don’t quite have. Here are some of my biggest gripes so far (blogged in the hopes that they will be fixed someday):
Continue reading ‘What Google needs to become more awesome’
Spammers are good poets:
The pain of being born into matter.
I’ve drifted somewhat from the distant heart
Reshaping magnified, each risen flake
Is the moon to grow
With its lament, it often sounds, instead,
Escapees from the cold work of living,
What is there in the depths of these walls
One flash of eye, or blow one clarion-blast;
To run, as in the time of the bee, seeking
He terrifies the Vast, he seems so wild;
and the Splendid Splinter. For a few dreamy dollars,
Or by the loud hand of painting, always puts.
Unreadable from behind—they are well down
VII. Hudson and His Strait; Baffin and His Bay
They tear apart the mist, it is as though,
Pierced by the mist that fades away,
The face of a Quos ego),
They move against, or through, or by, or toward.
No name, no meaning. Oh my friends
My brother assumes that they use the old computer program Racter to come up with these poems.
Environmental Economics tells me that the X-Prize foundation is going to be offering a cool $25 million to anybody who develops a superefficient (and marketable) automobile.
I know almost nothing about cars, but it strikes me that most of the people who love cars don’t know or care much about the environment. (If you are a car nut who also happens to be an environmentalist, speak up and leave a comment. Prove me wrong!)
But that’s why this kind of prize may just be necessary to make fuel efficient cars a reality. X-Prize foundation, I dont know who you are or where you came from, but you guys are awesome. Keep doing what you’re doing!
And if you actually know stuff about cars, then what are you waiting for?
There is nowhere near enough stuff in the public domain. Today, while attempting to put together a blackjack game for my computer science class, I was diverted by the completely unrelated and entirely useless task of drawing my own playing card graphics.
Continue reading ‘Deck of Cards’
by René Descartes
