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Happy birthday to me. Happy birthday to me. And what did I get on my birthday? 1) A Hangover, 2) my e-mail server crashed/locked up my account, 3) my home dir on ECE had a hard disk corruption, and 4) my blog site went down (posting anyway). whee.

cool before / after comparison in photoshop

Okay... so this is old news, but I didn't know about it... Canadian science fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer won the Hugo award for his book Hominids. I liked it, but I didn't think it was THAT great. I really liked his book Frameshift, but of course... I really have a soft spot for his book Flash Forward, where he has a character named Dr. Tompkins who lives in Vancouver.

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Okay... so I've been reading the book: Prisoner's Dilemma: John Von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb. It's a big title and an okay read, but nothing spectacular. However, I read something in there last night that made me laugh out loud. Seriously... LOL. Because of a misunderstood study at the RAND corporation... the U.S. now has a law forbidding the use of public funds to even study the possibility of surrender. Because the U.S. can't surrender -- it's in not in the constitution. So in theory, if a graduate student with a grant writes a paper on what would happen if space aliens came to earth and wanted the U.S. to surrender, then that paper would be illegal. I just thought the law was funny, and very American.

I received sad news that Craig O'Hagan, a friend of mine from both childhood and undergrad passed away... because of cancer no less. Scary, chilling news. A quick google search turned up this old article about him.

I'm getting pumped: My friend's game -- SSX 3 -- is coming soon. Here is a cool screenshot with the "Mallora" board (based on his wife).

Harrison Ford and the index finger. Captions are lame but concept is great.

Ahh... I haven't linked to a silly flash link in a while... check out Cows With Guns.

Hey... sign the Ronald Reagan Lunar Commemoration Petition

Ahh... Modern Drunkard Magazine ... like me this past friday. Check out the top ten articles section... #1? Bar signs.

Normally I find it so amusing when Amazon sends me a "recommendation"... but er... this is the worst logic I have ever seen: We've noticed that customers who have purchased Being John Malkovich also enjoy Charlie's Angels - Full Throttle...

Okay... the last couple of weeks have been Hell, but I finally finished my paper for the AIMA04 conference.