Wasted some time with photoshop

It's a me, Mario

I almost wanted to get out my old NES to play some mario after watching this.

Oh yeah, thanks to Google Video I have now found another way to waste, I am sorry facebook.

Next Gen iPod

Who cares about the Video iPod Nano, the next gen iPod Zepto is going to be the hippest piece of music technology in the next 6 months. Maybe this one won't become obsolete by the next next gen iPod scheduled to be released only a few short months later. How does this business model work?

Chronicles of Narnia

Can you pass the Chronic .... les of Narnia? So I saw this on Monday. It was actually pretty good. I thought it was going to be pretty childish, but it wasn't bad at all. Some parts were cheesy, but in the end I thought the movie was pretty good. The reason I mention it is because my superstar programmer friend from Google (I want his job) sent me this hilarious link tonight. http://youtube.com/watch.php?v=zLElfJ9YCh0. Enjoy!

4 Hour Update

I don't have any christmas party photos yet, but my bicycle is fixed, my brother has some new climbing shoes, I met his personal trainer and I found my old friend from middle school on myspace!

new blogs!

Checked the blog of my friend from the climbing gym Nikki. Apparently she knows my friend Anh. Small small world.

Went to the annual Christmas party last night. I didn't take any pictures because I was having too much fun playing Apples to Apples and saying things from Napoleon Dynamite and 40-Year Old Virgin.

I will try to get my friends to upload their photos. In the meantime I gotta go fix my bike.

Today went well

Today went well. I woke up late because I am on CHRISTMAS BREAK!!! It finally feels good to be a student again. This afternoon I did some web development for a friend who works at an adoption agency. I am not getting paid, but I am learning AJAX stuff and helping my friend for a good cause, so it is worth it to me. I went rock climbing and my brother and I nailed a v4 at the climbing gym. We saw our friend Nikki too. It was nice to talk to her about some technology stuff. I didn't realize she was a technophile, or technowhore as she put it. The other day I was reading my friend John's blog (work shmork, see link on the right) and I came across a really funny post about teaching sex ed to a bunch of kids. The questions were priceless. I am also getting excited that one of my teachers from Beijing will be visiting Seattle in about 5 days. I can't wait to speak some Chinese again.

Where have I been?

It is so much easier to blog when they are things going on in your life that don't involve studying. In the past few weeks my life has pretty much consisted of reading Chinese literature, Korean novels and doing CSE homework. Oh yeah, I went climbing a couple times too. Other than that my life has been stagnant.

Yesterday was my last final. I ended up waking up in the middle of the night and studying through th morning since my final was early in the morning and finals the previous day ended in the late afternoon. You might ask, why didn't I study before that?. I guess you don't know me very well.

In the last few days I came to a new conclusion about graduation. I am going to stay here for one more quarter, so that I can take some more programming classes. I don't really need to take them since I have most of my graduation requirements done, but I just want to take them for fun. Next quarter I am taking operating systems and computer vision. I think I will take compilers and artificial intelligence in the spring.

By the time I am done I will have taken 6 years to get my whole undergraduate degree, but then again I took a year off to work on a movie and go to China, both very worthwhile experiences I must say. I would recommend that everyone study abroad while they are in school even if it isn't to study a language.

So what about climbing? I have been trying to climb at least once a week, now more that I am on vacation. My brother and I bought an annual membership not to long ago, so I have been taking advantage of it and I think I will probably be going for 'free' once winter break is over. I have been getting better slowly. v2s are cake most of the time and I can do quite a few v3s with some work. Last night Choi got me to try a v4 and I almost nailed it, so I may only try climbing v3s and v4s from now on just to make sure I keep progressing and I don't just keep climbing easy routes.

In other semi-useless news I have found some online Chinese podcasts. http://www.chinesepod.com has some beginner lessons on speaking Chinese. I would recommend them to anyone who has begun studying Chinese and is comfortable with speaking and listening to the different tones. For anyone who wants to listen to some more spoken Chinese, there is a girl named Remy who is living in Europe and has been putting together an audio blog about her experiences. Don't worry they aren't just about shopping and the cute guys she meets. Actually they discuss some interesting topics like drug use. Check them out at http://www.princessremy.net. iTunes is a good piece of software, but if you hate any apple software, here is a list of other choices: http://www.podcastingnews.com/topics/Podcast_Software.html.

Oh yeah, if you think my blog is stupid and I should talk about other things (wink wink, you know who you are), just send me an email with some topics and I can discuss those.