Saturday, April 22, 2006

Cleveland (S)ocks

All i want to say in this post is that Lebron.... you can't match up to the real 23 at least when he was on the WIZARDS!!!!

muhahahahah

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

the civic center from gattaca

So I just found out from my designer friend... that the civic center in san rafael was actually where gattaca was filmed. People who major in architecture go there just to check out the building. Amazing... a place where people might actually want to get jury duty just so they an go check out the place.

Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Engineering marvels = Osaka Airport

Now that I have directv, i'm starting to spend quite a bit of time watching the national geographic channel.

This week they talked about Osaka Airport. Osaka wanted to compete with Tokyo in attracting investors, and found that by building a bigger airport, they could. Unfortunately though, Osaka was completed crowded and had no space, so the engineers decided to build the airport in the middle of the ocean! It was just an amazing episode. They showed that in order to prevent sinking into the ocean, the japanese would actually cause the sinking to increase by sucking the water out of the sand before building on it. it was pretty unituitive. (Who would have thought of that!)
By making the foundation extremely sturdy, they were also able to withstand in 1995 the kobe earthquake, which had its epicenter only 18 miles from Osaka airport.

Anyways, as an engineer, I must have to give my hats off to the engineers who designed Osaka airport.

Monday, April 03, 2006

daylights savings time

Man, I hate daylight savings time. I rather not have the hour in october than have to lose an hour in march.
So Im going to be going to a conference for like the next 3 days down in san jose... sigh. It will make me realize how lucky I am to be living in the city and not have to travel so far for work.

Jokes from my brother's website

So this is from a posting on my brother's website,
sounds really funny.

Ten Best Things to S
ay if you Get Caught Sleeping at Your Desk.

10. "They told me at the Blood Bank this might happen."

9. "This is just a 15 minute power nap they raved about in the time management course you sent to me ."

8. "Whew! Guess I left the top off the Whiteout. You probably got Here just in time."

7. "I wasn't sleeping! I was meditating on the mission statement and envisioning a new business strategy."

6. "I was testing my keyboard for drool resistance."

5. "I was doing a highly specific Yoga exercise to relieve work-related stress.
Are you discriminatory toward people who practice Yoga?"

4. "Heck! Why did you interrupt me? I had almost figured out how to handle that big accounting problem."

3. "Did you ever notice sound coming out of these keyboards when you put your ear down real close?"

2. "Who put decaf in the wrong pot?"

NUMBER ONE best thing to say if you get caught sleeping at your desk........

Raise your head slowly and say, "...in Jesus name, Amen."

Sunday, April 02, 2006

Justice League Unlimited

So this post isn't really about Justice League Unlimited. Actually, I'm trying to put in keywords for adsense. I noticed that my ads have been really good lately. The words "Free Star Trek Episodes" and "Download Star Trek Episodes from Google" really stand out to me. I know I'm not suppose to click on my own ads, but they were so great and interesting. One of them was a deal to get free Star Trek Voyager dvds by accomplishing 3 tasks. My brother did this once, I wonder if he ever got his free ipod.