my workspace @ home (houston, tx)

December 31, 2008

I am always interested in learning about and seeing people’s work spaces. You can see that my workspace is a bit messy at the moment. This is partly due to the fact that I was too lazy to get everything perfect since I’ll be going back to school pretty soon. I’m usually pretty anal-retentive when [...]

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First Impressions: iPhone 3G

December 31, 2008

Taken with a Nikon D50 w/ 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G + SB-800 flash

I finally picked up an iPhone 3G (8GB) from my local Apple Store over Christmas. I couldn’t resist owning an iPhone any longer. I used to own a first generation iPhone but got rid of it because I was frustrated with the lack of email [...]

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Voicemail greetings

December 29, 2008

For a long time, I have been disappointed with the voicemail greeting options available from most cellphone carriers. I have disliked leaving a pre-recorded message using my own voice and have hated the simple automated greetings that most carriers have to offer. If you are like me, then you’d rather have an impartial automated greeting [...]

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First Impressions: Macbook Aluminum 13″

December 23, 2008

Taken with a Nikon D50 w/ 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G

I have to say that I am impressed with what Apple has accomplished with its new line of Macbooks. I used to hate the Macbooks for their cheap, plastic design and slow performance. Having owned a Powerbook G4 and a Macbook Pro 15″, I am a sucker [...]

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50 skills every geek should have

November 7, 2008

After becoming a fervent user of del.ici.ious, I have been coming across some pretty interesting and cool sites that other people have bookmarked. The following is one of the many things I have come across. The list below is borrowed from a Gizmodo post which you can find in its original entirety at Gizmodo. Things [...]

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Leopard Installation on a Powermac G4

October 13, 2008

So, after a week of trials and tribulations, Leopard is finally installed and working on a Powermac G4 400Mhz (AGP graphics) computer I managed to salvage from the trash. After upgrading the HDD from a measly 12GB to 80GB and adding an extra 512MB of RAM, I was able to install Tiger on the machine. [...]

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Capote Movie Review

March 3, 2008

Bennett Miller’s Capote opens up with a scene that is all too familiar to those of us who have read Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood. The opening scene paints the Clutter farm against a backdrop of the beautiful Great Plains of Holcomb, Kansas, closely resembling what any reader of In Cold Blood might have [...]

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touch the fire

October 22, 2007

Homecoming weekend has by far been one of the more interesting and funner weekends I have spent here at Dartmouth so far. We kicked off Homecoming weekend with a ton of EBAs pizza (which I am now an absolute fan of UPDATE: after two years in college, this crap is absolute poison and a drug. [...]

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Dartmouth vs. Penn Football Game

September 30, 2007

Location: Dartmouth College – Memorial Field

I’ve never really been much of a football fan but I have to say that I was jumping out of my seat on several occasions during the Dartmouth vs. Penn game yesterday. We were off to a bad start from the beginning when Dartmouth didn’t catch a ball and I [...]

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DOC Trips: J57 – Harder Hiking

September 21, 2007

Location: New Hampshire – White Mountain National Forest and Moosilauke Lodge

For three days we hiked through the beautiful forests that compromise 87% of New Hampshire’s land mass. We alone hiked 7 mi of the hardest terrain I have ever encountered in my life on our first day, 7.4 mi of pretty much the same terrain [...]

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