Sayang Central: March 2004

Wednesday, March 31, 2004

Google Pulls an April Fool's Joke!

The just released a press-release talking about how they'd offer free email with 1GB of storage per user.

This has hit all the major news services!!

Unbelievable! They're taking it hook, line, and sinker.

Tuesday, March 30, 2004

So cute!

This has got to be one of the cutest things:

From SF Gate's DIP

This little piggie: In Rio Rancho, N.M., Melvin the guinea pig relieves his arthritis with a nice soak in a rodent-sized hot tub -- a foot spa. Tasha the cat found the whole pig-in-a pot thing kind of curious.

Monday, March 29, 2004

Linguistics

It's websites like this that remind me that I wanted to take a Linguistics class before I left Stanford.

Absolutely fascinating. I wish I could go back to school :(

Thursday, March 25, 2004

Chocolate Sandwich

I don't know whether to be hideously disgusted or incredibly hungry, but a deep-fried chocolate sandwich sounds awfully tasty!

Tuesday, March 16, 2004

OK Cupid Personality Test

So I went and took the personality test on OK Cupid.
Scary how those things go... I took it twice, slightly tweaking my answers between the two tests, where I had been waffling between choices.
The first time it grabbed what was arguably my personality for my first two years at Stanford (basically pre-Minli). "The Vapor Trail." A rather harsh description, but that graph looked REALLY familiar.
Then the second time I got something more like what I expected for "the current" me: "The Slow Dancer."
Weird how answering the questions what I thought were ever-so slightly different produces a vastly different, but (at least in my own perception) valid estimations of my character.
-PV

Wednesday, March 10, 2004

More Sayang Service

San Diego Zoo: ApeCam

Sadly, it only works from 9am to 4pm, but its fun to watch while its on!

-PV

Friday, March 05, 2004

Magic: The Gathering

As some of you know, Adam, Emily, Evan, and I went out and bought a small amount of Magic: The Gathering Cards.

We are harkening back to our days of pimply-faced geekdom, gathering in the hallways and back corners of high school to play this ridiculously addictive (and remarkably expensive) collectable card game.

In a desparate effort to keep the craziness in check, we imposed a rule, where we each buy a specific set of three packages of cards. Each package contains a random assortment of cards, but we're capped at a $20 outlay, and we're not allowed to buy more cards, or even trade amongst ourselves. As would be expected with this sort of mechanism, we are thus required to devise creative ways to make a winning deck out of a very limited assortment of cards.

The ridiculously close matching of decks that has resulted from this random distribution of cards has caused a number of very drawn out and intense matches. In fact, Adam and I played until 6:00 AM this morning playing rematch after rematch, each match taking over 30 minutes!

Evan, you really missed out once you left!

Must play more.... I just printed out the 100-page tournament rule book that reads like a legal document. Let the slaughter begin!

-PV

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