Plustech Oy makes a wicked cool logger:

They know it's cool too b/c they'll even have a link on their front page to download wallpaper of this monster.

Bush: "blah blah... terrorism in israel is bad... blah blah... now watch this drive"

This is (of course) an extremely accurate transcription, right down to the placement of the ellipsis

US shurgs off Hussein's defiant speech (ready to repel any attack)

FCC mandates digital tuners by 2007

Baseball players agree to steroid testing

Sprint deploying 3G

Just saw BB King at Shoreline Amphitheater and it was awesome. The man can still play it with the masters. Instead of selling CDs they should sell DVDs - the amount of emotion BB puts into every lick and bend is awesome.

I also got to see George Thorogood - he may still play the same stuff as always but I still dig it.

~$8B in dept

While I was helping El Jefe move I got to witness one of the best setups for a team first-person shooter (in this case, Halo). On one wall was a TV showing the first team (split screen), and a projector was setup to show the other team on the opposite wall. That way the players got to yell at each other, but not actually see what the other team was doing. There's also something cool about playing video games on a projection screen.

<eom>

Visited some wineries in Sonoma with Reichbach, Weaver, Chet, and their crews. Got some merlot at Ravenswood, and also did some tasting at Sabastiani and Buena Vista (not recommended). Tried to party in the city, but I forgot a good pair of shoes and couldn't get into the club.

Tasted some wines with Reichbach. He has a book with a step-by-step guide to tasting that teaches you all the important stuff about evaluating taste, color, smell, etc... For example, tipping the glass and looking at the shadow on a white piece of paper shows the maturity of the wine, and holding the wine in your mouth while breathing in across it lets you notice a lot more of the flavor.

Here are the types of wines we tasted:
- French Syrah
- Australian Shiraz
- Chile Cab (French Style)
- French Bordeaux

Funky Bunch 17, Asteroids 16

We don't have to rhyme We do it all the time So on Saturday lets bring lunch And watch the Funky Bunch

PARC Forum
Digital Environments And Costumes In Star Wars: Episode II
Ari Rapkin
CG (computer graphics) Software Engineer
Industrial Light + Magic

So, apparently someone was able to steal enough of my personal info to sign me up for a cell phone with AT&T Wireless. Even managed to call the bastard up, but we weren't able to get anything useful out of him. One of my favorite parts of the whole ideal was, after having a very long conversation with the AT&T fraud department, and everything was set back in order, I was told 'Thank you for choosing AT&T Wireless.'