Archive for January, 2006

Crazy CS 3D Video Games

Stanford’s CS 248 - Intro to Computer Graphics - has a final project to create a 3D video game. Check out the winners and finalists for 2005. I personally thought the 1st and 2nd place winners were far wackier games then the game that won wackiest. Although I imagine that game won [...]

No such thing as luck

I suggested there was no such thing as luck. My friend Jake said “What about winning the lottery”?

Winning the lottery is not something you can influence directly without cheating, but it isn’t luck. There are a number of required steps on your part that you must do to actually win the lottery:

Buy a [...]

Guy Kawasaki’s Blog

Thanks to Chris Woodruff for the tip that Guy Kawasaki has started a blog. His blog is titled Let the Good Times Roll with Guy Kawasaki with the subject like (which I love) of Blogger. n. Someone with nothing to say writing for someone with nothing to do. Guy is possibly best known [...]

Fast Electric Car

Wrightspeed Electric Supercar Ride (0-60 in 3 seconds)
I want one.
Subject tags:
[Electric+Car]
[Speed]
[Video]
[Car]

Camera’s and the Law

I’ve know a number of people to be threatened about their act of taking pictures as being illegal. Turns out taking pictures is a lot more legal then most people realized. Basically, if you are taking a picture of something in public, then it is legal. So you can go to the [...]

The History of Food

Now I really enjoy food. I think most people do. I also find the history of food really interesting. Thanks to this Food Time Line anyone can explore when foods were introduced and the history behind them.
For example, did you know Fried Chicken was introduced in the 1st Century AD? Or [...]

Gmail Storage: Take 2 - Part 2

I was curious what causes the Gmail usage statistic to change, and how quickly it updates.
To save you from needing to look at my last post, here were my usage statistics

You are currently using 574 MB (21%) of your 2681 MB.
I sent myself a 10 MB email. Sure enough immediately my usage statistics changed [...]

Gmail Storage Space: Take 2

I previously reported that my Gmail usage statistics as of October 24th:
You are currently using 547 MB (21%) of your 2657 MB.
I was watching that percentage for a while and I got a rather large attachment which bumped me to 22%. I decided to stick it out a little longer to [...]