January 4, 2003

Boring playoff games
- Jets beat Colts 41-0
- Falcons easily beat Packers at Lambeau, first ever playoff loss at Lambeau for Favre

January 5, 2003

49ers comeback over the Giants, 39-38
- 24-points behind in 3rd quarter, 38-14
- 1 minute left when Tai Streets scored
- 2 two-point conversions with Terrell Owens
- 25 unanswered points
- biggest in NFC playoff history

Steelers overcome 17-point deficit to beat Browns
- 0:58 left when Steelers scored
- Browns last chance ended with time running out and receiver diving out of bounds

January 7, 2003

Playstation 3 to use Rambus interconnect technology
- chip-to-chip and chip-to-ram

Jon Johansen acquitted on all counts by Norwegian court
- not illegal to crack personal property

Daschle not running for president, yeah

Raelians clone baby is a hoax, duh

January 8, 2003

There, Inc. launches
- wannabe Metaverse

January 10, 2003

North Korea quits nuclear non-proliferation treaty
- practical effect would be to remove nuclear programs from UN monitoring
- Bush: US has no intention of invading North Korea

January 11, 2003

Titans barely advance against Steelers, 34-31
- Nedney's 3 tries at kicking final field goal
- time out
- miss with penalty
- good
- game close throughout

Eagles easily beat Falcons

January 12, 2003

Big Dig to finally open
- I-90 tunnel section connecting to Ted Wiliams tunnel

Case to resign position at AOL
- will still be part of AOL in director role

Football get together at 1010
- Carl and Frank
- 49ers crushed by Bucs
- Oakland crushes Jets

January 14, 2003

Anthrax possibly back in DC post office

January 15, 2003

Extended copyrights upheld by Supreme Court
- even though possibly unwise, Congress has authority

Microsoft starts Government Security Plan
- lets governments see 97% of Windows code
- remaining 3% has to be seen in Redmond

Mariucci let go from 49ers

January 16, 2003

Weapons inspectors find empty chemical warheads in Iraq
- war in a couple weeks?

Plague scare: scientist accidentally broke vials, reported them missing

January 22, 2003

Germany joins France as countries that won't support war resolution

Verizon has to give up identity of file sharer to RIAA

LinuxWorld

Ford demos recyclable car

January 25, 2003

MS SQL Worm DDos-ing net
- 5 of 13 root servers down

January 28, 2003

State of the Union address
- Iraq, Iraq, Iraq
- $6B for "bio-shield"
- $10B to fight AIDS in Africa

Afghanistan battle
- biggest battle for US forces in a year

In the matchup of the Heisman-candidate quarterbacks, Palmer crushed Banks (with the help of some excellent USC D). USC simply unloaded on Iowa for the entire game by spreading the ball around on offense (Fargas, Williams, McCullough, Byrd). Palmer racked up 303 yards and a TD pass (Williams). Iowa was able to put seven on the board after a 100-yard opening kickoff return, but after that was fairly silent. In the words of Mike Williams, "After the kickoff, they didn't do anything."

Orange Bowl Boxscore:

   Final   1st 2nd 3rd 4th   T  

   Iowa (3) 10   0   0   7  17

   USC  (5)  7   3  14  14  38

Palmer outduels Banks in bowl showdown

Saw Two Towers for the second time. Man, I can't wait for the DVD.

The Outgoing Illinois Governor Ryan cleared death row sending a bold statement. All death sentences were commuted to life without parole. 156 inmates spared, and another four were pardoned b/c of torture claims.

Rocket fuel that's environmentally-friendly, and cheaper to produce. Imagine that: news release, images. Even more weird is that it's paraffin - the stuff was fun to play with in chemistry class, but who'd a thunk it?

I'm learning disabled when it comes to cooking, but one thing that I have did manage to pickup (from my Japanese aunt) is that coffee grounds are an excellent spice when it comes to curry. And really, what isn't better caffeinated? Take caffeinated soap for example. Squeeky clean and shockingy refreshed at the same time.

If you really want to up the mix, throw it over some tonkatsu like I did tonight and you'll be in heaven.

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The Supreme Court unfortunately upheld Congress' copyright extensions. I thought I'd post this link to Breyer's dissent, as it is refreshing to see someone who get's it.

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The Speech Level Singing Method: Tools And Tricks For Artistic Vocal Development
Dave Stroud
Technical Voice Instructor
Dave Stroud Vocal Studio (www.davestroud.com)

The Bucs beat the Eagles and the Raiders beat the Titans.

meta holds the lucky distinction of being #1 in the injury counter. She managed to sprain both of her ankles below The Wave on the backside of Kirkwood. Note to others: tie your boots tight.

Speech by Sen. John Kerry given at Georgetown University. Possibly transcribed by Truthout, which is where I obtained the transcript (see extended). I think someone on the Beta list sent me the original link.

I like the Spiderman-like quote: "With great power, comes grave responsibility."

20,000 Bytes Under The Sea
Poster & Abstract
Emory Kristof
Photographer-in-Residence
National Geographic Society

This was a really nice talk IMHO. The guy's been with National Geographic forever and throughout his career has had to build leading-edge photography rigs to expand National Geographic's photographic reach beneath the sea. Some of his work also helped inspire Titanic the movie. His more recent work has been with high-definition capture, and the pictures he showed were amazing (especially compared to non-high definition versions of the same stuff).

Went to Maggie's b-day party in the city. Everyone was waiting in the lobby of the Clift Hotel Redwood Room for Maggie, turns out that she was already inside having some delectabe desserts. Ended having a Tawny 20-year-old port and a Cuban something dessert that was very chocolatey and very good.

Maggie's real birthday is the 27th, so we all had dinner at Brother's in the city. Mmm, Korean BBQ....

Ranking of the commercials. These are relative, not a measure of greatness:

The good:
#1 Terry Tate, Offical Linebacker
#2 Zebras/Jackass Instant Replay

The brief laughter:
#3 Upside-down clown: "Can I get a hotdog"
#4 Willie Nelson, "My face is burning"
#5 Dog dreadlocks
#6 Ronde and Tiki Barber rehash

And the worthless:
#7 Baboons into polar bear pen
#8 Joe Montana ring
#9 Osbornes