April 4, 2006
NCAA CHAMPIONS!!
We WON!! We WON!!
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February 17, 2005
New Apple Goods
Wow; I’m excited! Apple has come out with a few cool new things that are affordable enough for someone like me to finally get in on all the fun. I have been oggling apple computers for a few years now wanting to be an Apple + PC user, but so far their products have been consistantly out of my price range.
Now I could get a new Apple computer for just over $500.
Also, they offer a new iPod for the financially challenged too. Check it out –>
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October 4, 2004
Vice Presidential Debates
For me the Vice Presidential Debates are the most exciting and anticipated of the Election: 2004 debates. These two candidates are the ones that actually have the brains and the speaking ability. These two candidates are people that had actually done something significant on their own before having a political career. (lol, I love my biases)
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December 8, 2003
USC Complaints…
USC fans and the media seem to be in an uproar now that the BCS rankings have determined that USC is going to play fourth ranked Michigan in the Rose Bowl.
I completely disagree with the assertions of these two groups that USC is undeniably #1 — “by concensus.”
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October 16, 2003
Brain Implants Work in Owl Monkeys
I saw this article on MSNBC News. I copied it into the extended entry in case the link died. I’m really interested in this stuff, which is one of the main reasons I wanted to get into Linguistics (to figure out if I could help a machine learn a language). The approach that these guys at Duke took to getting this to work was pretty smart. Instead of trying to train the animal to use the machine they trained the machine to use the animal. Read the article and you’ll see what I mean.
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