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Going Posting Crazy

Posted by Jules - February 15, 2007 at 11:02:56 pm

Wahh, mike is getting a little crazy with his posting. Must be the new format.

Today’s topics of discussion:

1. I got accepted into the department of Plant and Microbial Biology at Berkeley for graduate school! Wahooo! I would hazard to say that I am the most excited person to hear this news (in this case, sent by email). I should be receiving an official letter through snail mail in a few days. It is such a relief to know that I got in. I’ve been stewing in anxiety ever since submitting my apps. Now it’s time to call up Davis and see if I can pressure them to hurry up their admissions process. But considering that they recently asked my boss to resend her rec because they lost it again, I don’t know that my efforts will speed the process up much. Yay to having no monies again. And cheers to another five+ years of schooling.

2. To celebrate, mike and I went to Mijori’s to eat sushi. We ordered mike’s requisite rainbow roll, and miscellany including oyako donburi (eggs, chickens, onions and sweet sauce over sticky rice) and it was quite tasty. Mmmmm… chicken rice… and forgot about buying ice cream, which was our original celebratory feast goal. Ah well, I left full and happy.

3. I have worked an insane amount of hours at work due to a meltdown emergency at work. To date, no less than 11 hours per day since monday. Whew. Almost to the homestretch. But at least I get to enjoy the three day weekend. I think I would have gone crazy if I had needed to work through the weekend. I also took a walk around the work campus, which I haven’t done for awhile. It was really beautiful, with the sun, the breeze, and the bay. Hopefully I won’t dream any more disturbing lab dreams (last night, I dreamt that I spilled acetic acid all over myself while trying to making a dilute solution to stop a protein silver stain reaction. It’s no good when dreams about work invade my off time. Must relax!)

4. I watched nacho libre tonight, which was actually kind of entertaining, though I think Jack Black a complete doofus.

5. Mike is currently wrestling with the “New” Super Mario Bros for DS.

6. And now I am sleepy. Time for bed. Goodnight!

Cover your pod

Posted by Mike - February 15, 2007 at 07:02:06 pm

These are the two that I’d get for Jules and I if I had an iPod… anyone want to get me one? Anyone? *silence*

More at GelaSkins.

GameSpot is falling behind, technically

Posted by Mike - February 14, 2007 at 09:02:17 pm

Below is a trailer of Battlefield 2142: Northern Strike, a game I might play if I had someone to play it with and a better graphics card. Unfortunately I had to grab the trailer from GameTrailers.

I think trailers can do wonders for game sales. I don’t know why more companies don’t focus on making amazing trailers. Sometimes, after seeing a trailer for a video game I get so excited by it that I already know I’m going to buy the game. Even if it sucks. Haha. Maybe one day I’ll make a list of my top trailers.

I don’t know why GameSpot doesn’t have embeddable videos yet. I think the GameSpot live team is one of the greatest assets to the site and we’re really losing out by not only lacking the ability to embed out videos but not even being able to link directly to them. If I see an awesome video on GameSpot and I want to share it with someone I have to download it and then upload it through the user videos section on GameSpot and then link to that. It’s pretty annoying. Get it together GameSpot (and TV.com and MP3.com and FilmSpot!).

Happy V-Day

Posted by Mike - February 14, 2007 at 09:02:02 pm

“I’m an Open Source kind of girl.” (Young woman at Ramada Inn on Market Street, overheard by Rick Kleffel.)

“I don’t care if someone has M.D. after their name. OK, so she’s a neurosurgeon. But is she hot?” (Man to his parents, overheard at AT&T Park by The Chronicle’s Heather Knight.)

“I’ve been faking orgasms for a year; the least you can do is fake listening to me.” (Woman to man, overheard at the Drunken Fish Restaurant in Oakland by Victor Miller.)

“How could he not know that pretty girls do not eat dessert? . Then he ate ice cream in front of me. I am so not going out with him ever again.” (Young woman in financial district office, overheard by co-worker.)

“She dumped me for the Lord.” (Man at Starbucks near the Tower Market in San Francisco, overheard by Frank Evans.)

“Dude, she was so upset that she called me an intellectual.” (Punk rocker on cell phone describing his blind date, overheard at Muddy Waters Coffee House in the Mission by David Ryan.)

The SF Chronicle article full of evesdropping goodness.

God said it, I believe it, that settles it

Posted by Mike - February 13, 2007 at 07:02:04 pm

Dang, I got a bad education. My mind has been corrupted by those blasted Berkeley professors. Number one public university, HA!

Esc

Posted by Mike - February 13, 2007 at 10:02:55 am

Wow, computers are cool from the inside.

Over the weekend

Posted by Mike - February 12, 2007 at 11:02:06 pm

As Jules mentioned we went over to B-Ma’s new place and had hot pot and played Settlers of Catan. We played the 6 player expanded edition. It played out about the same as the 4 player version except you can built after every turn, which makes for some pretty fast gameplay. You can get resources and build on every turn. Craziness. Needless to say, Jules and I lost. I think we came in 5th and 6th. Haha.

On Sunday I played Arcana Evolved with a little group. It’s like Dungeons and Dragons. There was much die rolling, axe wielding and beer drinking. Pretty fun but it went pretty slow this time. We played for 5 days in the game and killed 9 goblins on the last day. That took about 7 or 8 hours. Woo hoo!

Tom brought his corgi puppy to play with another puppy there. So cute.

Weekend- copied and pasted from the ole blog so you have something to read

Posted by Jules - February 11, 2007 at 11:02:27 pm

So this weekend has been fairly full of odds and ends.

I finished watching Little Miss Sunshine with mike, and really enjoyed that movie. [SPOILER]Though I have to say that the superfreak dance sequence made me cringe. It’s really hard watching a ten year old do a stripper dance. And the little beauty pageant hopefuls…. are really, really creepy. I’m glad I was spared these rituals growing up. I don’t think I could live down the bright blue makeup. Oh wait, they did that to us in my Chinese Dance school. Doh.

We also went on a costco excursion. And I just received my costco rebate from American Express. 108$ baby! Which means that I spent way, way too much money. Hey, what if I charged my mortgage to AMEX? Ah, the possibilities….

On Saturday night, Ben Ma invited us out to hot pot. I haven’t had good hot pot in a really long time, so it was pretty delicious. I noticed a distinctive lack of shrimps (really essential for flavoring the soup stock well IMO) due to an invitee’s shrimp allergy, but it was still tasty. And there were pea shoots. Mmmm… pea shoots…

And we played Settlers—- DOH!!!

My post will now abruptly end due to Mike usurping my blog contents and the picture! (okay, so I suppose the picture was his to begin with). I published my post halfway through because I’ve accidently deleted them before while writing. At which point I noticed that Mike had just posted a new entry entitled, “Rainy Weekend” compared to my “Weekend”. And what does he talk about??? NOoooo… my hot pot… my settles. Traitor! Heh, not really. I guess that’s what happens when we do the same things. But Hah! I have something he did not do. I had a concert at Lake Merrit United Methodist Church (beautiful new venue overlooking the lake) and we had a full house! Which was most excellent. Our next concert is entitled Diva’s Revenge II, at Davies Symphony Hall, bringing back your favorite broadway hits and opera numbers in their full splendor. Should be a most excellently fun concert, and I can’t wait. April 30th, 7 pm. More details to come.

Moving

Posted by Mike - February 11, 2007 at 11:02:55 pm

So, I’ve migrated to a new server. My host made it somewhat easy to share a plan with someone else, so now I’m sharing space/bandwidth with a friend. Instead of moving cutenews over I decided to just install wordpress and start anew. But don’t worry, I’ll import all of the old posts over as soon as I have a minute to write a clever script to put it in a usable form. Wordpress is way more powerful (and is actually updated) so you should be bigger and better things around here. Including handy RSS/Atom feeds to the right for all of you technically savvy people. So, as usual, enjoy your stay.

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