An End to a Beginning

Today was my last day at work. It doesn’t hit you until you actually are away for a few days. One does not realize the impact on others until after you have left! I think in this case, the department will survive but will be on crutches for a while. Even with the best group [...]

Order To One’s Heart’s Content

My good friend Jonathan invited a bunch of my coworkers and myself to have lunch today at his family’s restaurant. It specializes in Chinese Dim sum and seafood throughout its dishes. I’ve never had Dim sum before and was pleasantly surprised from the wide variety of exotic samplings that were prepared for us. Some of [...]

Waiting…

This morning I had to get a lab test done. I arrived at the office at 8:05AM just after opening and saw this. A tiny little room, with 5 chairs and over 10 people waiting in line. With nowhere to sit and lots of expecting mommies who were all seated, I reluctantly stood outside with [...]

Some Like It Hot!

Unfortunately, I hate hot weather.. and not only that, its really humid too! Whats going on? I come back from vacation and return to this miserable wasteland. Oh well, just one of the “joys” of living in SoCal.

10 flagrant grammar mistakes that make you look stupid

1: Loose for lose
2: It’s for its (or god forbid, its’)
3: They’re for their for there
4: i.e. for e.g.
5: Effect for affect
6: You’re for your
7: Different than for different from
8 Lay for lie
9: Then for than
10: Could of, would of for could have, would have
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I always have problems with #2 and #4 in my writing. [...]

Busted!

Sleeper Subie catches the M3! Yes, thats a real cop car here patrolling in WA.

Teamfortress 2, For Realz?

Are my eyes being deceived? After how many years did Valve say there were going to release it? I remember at ‘99 E3 Expo, my friend asked the Valve rep when is the expected release date. He replied, ‘6-months’..yea right! Well, at least its here soon. Better late than never!

Six steps for learning difficult subjects quickly

Step 1: Bombard yourself with information
Step 2: Identify the key concepts and make them yours
Step 3: Only memorize what absolutely has to be memorized
Step 4: Get some feedback on your understanding
Step 5: Bombard yourself with some more information, but from another source
Step 6: Get some real-world feedback
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This seems to help me a lot, thought I [...]

Double-Double

Free bugers! I will miss them.. next best thing is Fat Burger here in Redmond. But its just NOT the same I tell you!!

Sunset

Nice afterglow, I wonder where it is?