Har Gau?

One fun-filled weekend.
Hiked up to the dish with Emma, Can and Jo on Thursday (my weekends begin on Thursday).

Emma left on Saturday, sadly without having tasted dim sum. Tammy and I did take her to Monster Sushi, however, which was very good.
I played penultimate mafia on Friday night with Doougle’s Gavilian froshies, Brendan and Can. [...]

Crisis in Flatland

Spent a good part of yesterday working on our game for CS194, the senior project class for CS. Doougles, Travis, Dan Salinas and I are writing a real time strategy game for TabletPCs. Our point of departure from every other RTS is that our game is meant to be played using only the stylus. While [...]

Ex Machina

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The supercomputers I am showing here are powerful almost beyond human understanding. The can map every molecule of the billions on a human DNA string, scrutinize at the atomic level the collision between two pieces of plutonium in an exploding bomb; or sketch the gravitational pull of every star in the galaxy. There are not [...]

Mother's Day Misadventures

A group of us tried to go to the Koi Palace for dim sum last Sunday. Outside the place it was madness. There was this huge throng of people waiting to get in. Luckily Jo had thought to bring Apples to Apples, which we played on the porch of the Outback Steakhouse next door. After [...]

I watch this Computer Science student

He is diligent and attentive in class, hanging on the professor’s every word. In his five-subject notebook, tattered with wear, he writes down anything that he does not understand. Later he will study it until the wee hours of the night. He loves this, he thinks.
He forgot his notebook in class today; I picked it [...]

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