George Clooney looks a lot like Michael W. Smith.

I was very entertained by Three Kings. I also highly recommend Galaxy Quest. I nearly cried watching that.

When I was in high school I totally loved Catcher in the Rye, so I started reading some other Salinger books, like Franny and Zooey. I didn't get that book at all.

I've done a lot of driving in the past week and a half. We drove to Reno, then Salt Lake City, then Denver, then Kansas City, then St. Louis, then Champaign, then Chicago. I flew back, and then drove to L.A., then to San Diego, back to L.A., and back up again. I don't know how many miles I've travelled in a car, but it's a lot.

Gas in Chicago (regular unleaded) is about $2.20.

I'm starting to realize I'm more like my parents than I would care to admit.

Dave is so good at DDR it's depressing.

I'm pretty sure kirei is Erik Haugen or Erik Nordhagen. I'm betting on the former. My guess is he found that people reacted better when they had no idea who he was than when they knew who he was, but didn't know him. But I could be wrong.

I think it's safe to say that I hate all Lakers fans right now. Dave Barry has this expression, and it's right on. Laker (and Celtic) fans produce 95% percent of the world's smug. Anger.

I have no idea what to do this summer. They're letting me start whenever, so I can take time off. The thing is, every other summer, I've either gone on a "trip" or tried to get a job, so the goal was to work for the summer. Now the goal is to not work. But I have no idea what to do. I'm thinking of just spending some time by myself (like a few weeks), reading and taking day trips. I don't think I'd mind doing that by myself.

I don't mean to depress Dave, but I heard that one person finished that project in 2 hours.

I totally know what Michele's talking about. That rush of hot air when you step out of the plane onto the thing. It's a message: welcome home.

Has anyone heard that song by Marc Anthony? I Need To Know? It's one of the worst songs ever recorded. It appears that all of the sounds were created by a mid 80s model Casio. I'm not even joking. Argh.

It bothers me when people say they've found God on their own terms. Even worse is theology that goes in reverse. That is, instead of trying to find out who God is, and reason from there how they should be, they look at how they are, and from that reason how God should be. That's making God in your own image, making Him what you want Him to be. But unless you believe God's made up, that can't be really God. I don't know, unless you believe that God is not truly God, I don't see how you can believe that you can find God, know about Him, unless He tells you. And unless you believe God is not good, I don't see how you can believe that who He is is different from how He says He is in the Word, so that you alone know what God is really like.

There should be a rule that frosh leaders need to be hooked up before they are leaders. That or completely separate by gender. But I guess if that were a rule, there'd be a lot less dating. I don't know. Maybe we can make sophomore leaders, and we'll all understand what that means. At least then you don't have to pretend to hold back.

Just kidding.

So someone told me that a lot of last names that end in "ian" are Armenian. So I'm assuming a classmate of mine at Bellarmine, Phil Andonian, was Armenian. We used to call him Phil The Andonian. As in Conan the Barbarian. I don't know, it was funny at the time.

Peter Yoon was one of the first friends I had to use cologne. Andrew Joyce was another. Anyway, Peter used Drakkar Noir.

First of all, Dave's last short entry is not a short entry. Make it a main entry, dork.

Second, he's wrong. Ben Shin should write the book. I guess my philosophy is (in a way) you can't really find out about the other side's perspective unless the other side shares it, you know? What I mean is, how is the 1st generation going to know the 2nd generation's side unless someone tells them? That's exactly why Ben needs to write the book.

I guess we just disagree about the order of things. He things people don't have a right to talk about the other side until they understand them. I think people can't really understand the other side until people talk about it, write about it.

Dave, I think it too idealistic. He thinks in the reverse of how I do, I think. For example, thinking that perfect (or at least much better) understanding of each side in 1st / 2nd generation Koreans can, and thus should happen before dialogue. I just think that's unrealistic.

In terms of church, I have my own theories as to what particular churches should do. Dave's idea of how to get ideal churches involves first changing the very fabric of American society. Actually, that's not true. He wants to change all of American, Chinese, Taiwanese, and Korean society. Then you can get a good church. Maybe I'm saying it wrong, but that's the impression I get.

So what I'm saying is that maybe Dave's ideas are ideal, but I don't know how realistic they are.

I haven't seen Henry since Monday.

A while ago Henry brought up the idea of direct depositing of tithes. I'm a big fan of this idea.

My elementary school was weird. Half of the students lived really close by, so they walked to school. The other half lived really far away, like 10-15 minutes by car, so they were bused to school. It's strange because there are other students who lived closer to it than I did (I was a buser) that went to other schools, and there were other schools that were closer to where I lived, but I didn't go there. I'm guessing it was an equalization type thing. Is my school the only one that did this?

So I looked at this site to figure out what my recurring dreams about my teeth falling out mean. It says it means I've been lying repeatedly to people and I'm afraid I'm going to get found out. For the life of me, I have no idea what this could be.

Whoa, just did a little more web research. Others say it's a fear of growing old. Another said (this is interesting) that a university study found that creative and artistic people tend to dream about their teeth falling out more frequently. I don't have a citation on this study. But that's kind of me. At least musically.

Whoa, just did a little more web research. It's kind of surprising how common losing teeth is as a dream topic. Nearly every site has it. Anyway, another common interpretation is that losing your teeth indicates a situation where you lack self-confidence or assertiveness. I have no idea what this could be.

I have a new favorite burrito restaurant. Burrito Real on Rengstorff and Middlefield. Very good, healthy burritos. It's just tasty, fresh, and they give you a lot of options, which is real nice. Irwin introduced this place to me a month and a half ago, and I've been back frequently.

I'm still looking for a place with a good fish burrito, however.

I wonder if people understand why me, Dave, and Henry are injecting so much Taste and Enthusiasm. I hope so. Noonchi, people.

Here's one weird thing about my memory. For the life of me, I can not remember conversations at all. Even recent ones. Even super recent ones. Like, I meet a person and immediately forget their name. And other conversations. Anyway, I frequently retell the same stories, jokes, and other things, just because I forget I've already told them to people. It's just weird, in light of my memory for other things. I don't know, I think it shows that, when it comes down to it, I'm just not a people person.

The interesting thing is, Jieun has an incredible memory for conversations. She can remember every conversation she's had in her entire life, and repeat them verbatim. It just fascinates me. Because her memory for other things is nowhere near as impressive. I think what we remember says a bit about who we are, I guess. And it's kind of cool to be complementary in this way.

So I essentially picked a fight on the bulletin boards with this super big fan of Russell Wong in the Romeo Must Die forum. I was just being super annoying. Anyway, I think she's the Devil. Her handle is Danyael Nephilim, and her geocities account is danyael666. I think it's in reference to a character Russell Wong played in the Prophecy, but I don't know, that scared me.

You know, I don't really know if I'm that intelligent. I think a lot of it is just the result of my environment. Let me explain. I think me and Dave's memory isn't necessarily just something we have, but just, it was always around us. Ever since I was young, I watched sports, partly with my dad. He taped the 49er games every Sunday, and I'd watch with him after church. We'd also frequently watch Ohio State football games, when they were on, on Saturdays. So since it was always around, I came to be able to remember things about sports, like who Jimmy Karsatos is, and his games against Jim Harbaugh, and Earl Bruce vs. Bo Schembechler.

My dad was also into movies, so I saw a lot of movies growing up, particularly nearly every Disney movie and a bunch of musicals. So like, that entertainment aspect was there also. And my mom made me read tons of books when I was a kid, so that reading part was there also.

I don't know. I just know that I'm like an information sponge - I have to do certain things, like browse all these web sites, and read the paper and some magazines all the time or I'll go crazy. I remember a lot of info, but I think I forget a lot of information also. It's just, I think since I was forced to absorb a lot of information since I was young, that's why I remember things. But I don't know.

Another interesting thing about CS classes, and this holds for every class I've TAd, but generally, people tend to work together by race. That is, the African-American students in the class work together, the Latino students work together, the Asians work together, etc. There are of course, exceptions, but this happens so much it's really noticeable.

So this quarter I'm TAing CS 157, and part of our responsibilities is writing the problem sets. That sucks. Anyway, I'm a dork, and I've been inluding little references to random things in the problems I wrote all quarter. These references included the Sony AIBO and Billy Blanks' Taebo (a question about Taibo), the Matrix (there is no spoon), Texas, and Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. I always wonder if people pick up on these references, and if they do, what they think about it.

I'm sorry, but Dave's latest short thoughts are just idiotic. He pretty much has no idea what he's talking about, admits it, then spews forth anyway. I particularly like how he says the "economy will recover." Is he saying the economy is in trouble now? That we've been in recession for 2 months? What is he basing this on? Simply the stock market? And even though I know precious little about the stock market, I still know how wrong he is about what he's talking about. And then he goes on and on about how everyone (else) is just an idiot.

I also love his hypocrisy. He has at various times said, he thinks it's cool knowing secret tricks at Sweet Hall, and that if you don't know the ins and outs of printing, you shouldn't be able to. He has also, at other various times, stated how often he farts, even in public places, and how during crunch time, he doesn't shower for long periods of time.

He also writes that he hates CS people, because they think they know everything and are rude to people, and how they have the worst hygiene in the world.

I don't know, I guess it's not strictly hypocritical, but it's a strange juxtaposition, at least to me.

Also, his model for music distribution is also idiotic. The point is, there are ways now to get music for free, without advertisements. Why then will people use a search engine that gives you music with advertisements? If there's a choice between that, and other means of obtaining music without it, of course people are going to go with the advertisement-free way. Meaning, no one is going to use Yahoo or whatever if that requires listening to advertisements. Because there's another way. There is absolutely no reason why people would have to use a search engine that requires you to pay (when others won't have to) and there's no reason why links need to go to an artist's page, with advertisements, when there's other alternatives.

The only way David's "model" can work is if the music industry forces it upon people - that only search engines like Yahoo or whatever that link directly to artists' sites, and that all search engines must go only to artists' sites. But this is pretty much the same approach that the industry is doing now, trying to force music distribution to be a certain way, and outlawing other ways. If you're arguing that the current approach won't work, there's zero reason why you're "model" would work, for the exact same reasons.

I always think about Divx in regards to this. You can't force a system that's most convenient only for the industry, when there's an easier system already in place for the consumer. They'll reject it.

Read this article. It's fascinating, especially if you're into CS. I don't know, I found it totally absorbing.

I saw Gladiator and I actually liked it a lot. It was kind of a rehash of familiar elements, but I found it entertaining.

Anyway, I did some research on the web, and I found out Marcus Aurelius was a real Caesar. He was known for his intelligence, and actually wrote some stuff on stoic philosophy, which I am a big fan of. I was impressed. His successor really was Commodus, and he really was kind of insane, and his love of public games was noted. His reign was ended by trecherous circumstances, but it lasted 12 years.

I don't know, I thought it was cool.

It's crazy what the lifespans are for some athletes. Jim Courier retired today at the age of 29. 29! If you think about it, that's so young. It seems like an eternity ago when he was good. And he's just 29.

I also wonder what these athletes do for the rest of their lives. You look at the business world, and these people don't get into power until they're pretty old. Until then, they're just working their way up the ladder. But athletes, many are done by 30. What the heck do they do for the next 50 years?

Me and Dave were at church, when this little boy in kindergarten comes up to us, and he refers to us as "ahjushee." Weird feeling.

I'm really glad I got to TA while I was at Stanford. It just opened my eyes to a lot of things; the other side, if you will.

Anyway, for the class I'm currently TAing, people are allowed to work in groups, but they need to write up homeworks separately, and note who they collaborated with.

It's curious, because some people will credit other people, and those people apparently don't realize it, because it's not mutally credited. What happens is you get these fascinating chains. So A, B, and C will credit each other. But then D will credit A, as well and E and F. And E will credit A, D, and G and H. I mean it's crazy. There's this one web in particular that fascinates me. I just wonder what the heck the nature of their collaboration was like.

Maybe it's just me, but I think it's lame how every single Korean group numbers their CDs in order, instead of having an album title. I don't know, it just seems boring and uncreative. Kind of like Korean music in general, I suppose.

I pulled my weight in the infamous Fics-Chat Revival Of '00 (FiCR00). I sent 48 e-mails to fics-chat during the explosion. And of course, I made the call to arms that made things insane, I think.

Sometime during my Stanford years, I discovered the best place to program is the basement of Sweet Hall, with the SGI machines. For some reason I haven't come here lately, and I'm not sure why. Maybe the distance from the printers. At any rate, I like it down here because there aren't really any windows, so you can lose all sense of what time it is. It helps you program.

Eric Yang wrote on his page: "I think time management is one of the most important skills that I took away from Stanford." Whoa. It's when I see comments like these that I wonder how it is I went to the same school with these people. I didn't deserve to be there.

I don't know if you know this, but the Stanford phone service doesn't really care that much if you skip a month in paying the phone bill. I mean, they'll send you warnings and stuff, but they won't disconnect your line. So when I was at Stanford, I would only pay my phone bill every other month. It's a little easier this way.

Check this out. That's my cousin! I guess she's going by just Susan Van Riesen now.

I don't remember the name of the main Bible expositor at Urbana '96, I think it was Jorge, but he was seriously incredible. He just said some profound stuff. Anyway, this year it's Ken Fong. He led this seminar that deeply impacted me a lot. I'll write about it sometime. But that's cool.

The calendar on my wall is currently open at April. John's calendar is open at March.

Starting last summer, I tried to get into wine. I bought Wine for Dummies and everything.

I gave up. It's too complicated, and right now, my palate can't distinguish well enough (unless it's a really bad wine), and to get that level of taste would require far too much money.

Nevertheless, I do enjoy a nice glass of wine with a special meal, although I drink wine about about once every 2 or 3 months . What various books say, though, is that there are no rules. You should drink what you like, with whatever you want, regardless of what wine snobs might think.

For example (this is for Janice, as if she reads this page), White Zinfandel is considered a wussy wine. It's very mild, kind of fruity, and aimed towards people who don't really like other (stronger) wines. So wine snobs look down on it as not a very serious wine. But personally, I like it as a nice mild wine. It's almost like a fruit punch wine. I'm not really sure what foods it goes with, but what do I know.

Today in swimming we started the butterfly. I totally suck. I was without question the worst one there. I'm just not naturally coordinated; I have to totally think it out and will my body into doing what I want. Anyway, at first, I was moving my body in such a way that I wasn't getting my head out of the water enough to get enough air. So I was literally dying - running out of oxygen. I had to stop halfway through the pool. It was so bad I wanted to just leave, and never come back. I'm not joking about how bad it was. The instructor made us go the other way on our backs. I'm pretty sure he thought that if we did the same thing again, I would drown.

By the end of the day, though, I was getting better at it. I was still terrible, slow, and with hideous form, but I was breathing at least, and had a semblance of rhythm to my stroke.

So I felt pretty good. I mean, I was still among the worst ones there, but I was proud of myself that I stuck it out, even though I thought I was going to die. I made progress today, and that was a good feeling.

So I've always remembered these random TV shows that no one else remembers. Anyway, I found some of them. First, I found a page that referenced the Beverly Hills Teens. It's a shame it was only on for one season; it was quite funny.

Another great cartoon was Bionic Six. I still remember the theme song: "Bionic, Bionic Six woo oo We are a family..."

I can't believe they also have a reference to Comic Strip! This was obscure. It featured several cartoons together. Tigersharks was a lot like Thundercats and Silverhawks. Street Frogs, as I mentioned before, had just the wittiest theme song: "Who can do hip-hop better than a frog can?" Great show.

One of the greatest cartoons ever was Dungeons and Dragons. It seemed like everyone in my generation saw this cartoon.

Whoa! This one brings back memories: Goldie Gold and Action Jack. The only reason I remember this show is, the first time we got goldfish, we got two of them. My sister named hers Goldie Gold, and I named mine Action Jack.

Yes! I found that cartoon that featured an anal pig and an alligator named Jolene that I would talk about every so often. It's called Kissyfur. Totally obscure.

Here's one I remember used to be on late on Saturday mornings, like at 11 AM. It was called The Littles. And I still remember the tune. "We are the Littles..."

Does anyone remember M.A.S.K.? It was a toy and a cartoon. The theme song went... "MASK crusaders working overtime, fighting crime."

Pole Position, another show I remember the theme music to, was on at weird hours. I think I'm the only person who saw it. But I remember the end credits. The cars drive, then half way through, they switch to hover mode.

Powerhouse was on PBS. It was kind of a weird show. Episodes included one on hate crimes (the Jewish guy was having his bar mitzvah), and one on disease. I also remember the theme. "Powerhouse, coming through Powerhouse, think of what you can do... the powerhouse is, the powerhouse is, the powerhouse is You!"

Starblazers was one of the best cartoons ever, and no one has ever seen it. It was just a great story, and it actually had an end to it. It was on KICU 36 in the Bay Area. And yes, I remember the theme to this also.

Arsenio Hall was a voice on The Real Ghostbusters cartoon! And Casey Kasem was a voice on Transformers!

And I found a reference to that show Automan that no one heard about but me here. It was on in 1983! I was 7 years old, and I still remember it. Whoa.

I watched way too much TV.

Will Henry and Lorraine's children be short or tall? Will they be hairy? Intriguing.

I'm sorry, but Justin Timberlake of 'N Sync is not attractive. He is the spitting image of Screech.

I find it fascinating that so many people don't know how they were named. I thought everyone knew; that everyone would want to know. Curious.

I have another theory as to why baseball managers wear uniforms. Dave's doesn't make sense because at times, basketball coaches get involved in brawls. Remember Jeff Van Gundy hanging on to Alonzo Mourning's leg?

In baseball, you have coaches who are out on the field. that is, first and third base coaches. It would look a little silly for them to be out there and not wearing any kind of uniform at all. So they do. That makes sense. Well since all the assistants are wearing uniforms, the only sport in which they do, again, it would look strange if the manager didn't also. That's my theory.

The Houston Rockets won tonight; their 5th straight. It's the longest current winning streak in the NBA.

I actually prefer the "taste" of room temperature water (if it's pure, that is bottled) over ice-cold water.

I'm sure only Eric will be interested in this, but I was browsing the CS faculty pages, and looking at Genesereth. He's teaching the class I'm TAing, CS 157. Anyway, one of his old PhD advisees - Stuart Russell! Russell is famous for writing, along with Peter Norvig, a great textbook on Artificial Intelligence. I just thought that was cool.

I also found out Feigenbaum won a Turing award in 1994. Whoa.

I was browsing the CS faculty's web pages today, and was looking at Julie Zelenski's. She lists her advisees, as well as some past advisees, and what they're doing now. Most of them are boring - working for Apple, working for Trilogy, working for Epiphany. One sticks out though:

• Kate Starbird (BSCS 97) playing pro basketball

Only two teams have beat Portland and the L.A. Lakers at Portland and at L.A. this year. They are the Toronto Raptors and the Houston Rockets.

I've been thinking about it, and I think that Stanford will never get to the championship game as long as the team continues to be the way it is. My current belief, and you can slam me if you want, Minho, but I think that for whatever reason, in the NCAA tournament, having good guards (and small forwards) means way more than having good big men, in particular a center.

Like this year, the Spartans were led by Mateen Cleaves, the point, and Mo Pete, who plays small forward (I think). There's no real center on the team; no one is even taller than 6-9. Size didn't really matter, and in retrospect, they were clearly the best team in the tournament. In retrospect.

UConn was a similar team last year. They were led by El-Amin at the point, and Hamilton at forward. When I think about it, I can think of a several great tournament teams that were led by quick guards and small forwards (like Arizona with their incredible guards that year), but I can't think of any teams that were led by dominant big men. Some talk show was saying how there hasn't been a dominant big man in a championship game since Patrick Ewing in 1984.

And the great big men that have come out recently, their teams haven't done well in the tournament. Like Tim Duncan.

Anyway, my feeling right now is that good small men are critical come tournament time, and it's not as important to have good big men. Again, just in the tournament, for whatever reason.

Stanford hasn't really had great small men recently, and that's why we're not doing well in the tournament. I'm making this all up, of course. But like, we did reasonably well with Brevin Knight and some scrubs, beating Wake Forest at least. And when we made it to the Final Four, it was thanks to clutch guard play (and Mendez). When our guards sucked, we lost.

So until we get some good guards, we're not going to go anywhere in the tournament. That's my claim.

Today was the first day of intermediate swimming in the water. It was awesome. I'm telling you, you have got to do something outdoors regularly this spring. The weather is just incredible. If you want to take swimming with me, I think you still can. But do something. Marvelous weather.

I am awesome at Dance Dance Revolution, in the literal sense of the word - I inspire awe.

I did so poorly in the first round that I threw my bracket away. I'm not even keeping track anymore. I did that bad.

It's funny what happens with the NCAA tournament. Today I became a hard core St. Bonaventure fan. And they still let me down. As did Creighton. And Dayton. Sigh.

Do you know how J.T. The Brick got his start? He was a famous caller to the Jim Rome show. He won a caller of the year contest or something. There are references to it somewhere on the Jim Rome Web Site. Anyway, some guy (Ticket 1050 boss) decided to give him a chance with his own show. So in the early days, J.T. would thank his for giving him a chance a lot.

Anyway, he started out as a famous caller. That's interesting to me.

My Final Four: Stanford, Indiana, LSU, and UCLA, with Stanford meeting LSU in the finals. This year I decided to be bizarre with my entries, because really, every year, if you stick with educated guesses, what everyone else thinks, you always lose. The teams always end up being slightly different than what everyone says, and it's the people who make those weird picks that win.

So, I made crazy picks, and I'm far more likely to lose, but I also think I'm more likely to win than those people who make safe, educated picks based on what all the analysts are saying. I definitely won't be in the middle of the pack. You have to go out on a limb a bit.

Did you know that if you open a new html file using emacs (on the Stanford computers) it will automatically include timestamp information? Try it.

Some of Jackie Chan's movies are just terribly racist, sexist, and definitely un-P.C., if not downright offensive. One thing I like, though, is how he treats white men. White men are nearly always the bad guys. If a guy is white, you know he's up to no good. Planning to hijack the boat, or steal China's ancient treasures, or whatever. And you know, this is a bad stereotype, and it's wrong, but it's refreshing to see white people on the receiving end of stereotypes, instead of being the perpetrators. It's wrong. But refreshing.

I love good writing. One of my favorite sites is Salon.com, as I've mentioned before. I've just found that it has a great variety of viewpoints, quite frequently extremely well written, regardless of whether I agree or not. There's just something very satisfying about reading a well penned thought, just this feeling of pleasure and content. I'm sure not everyone can understand me, but words really affect me. Sometimes it's just phrases, when you get the feeling that the author used just the right words to convey that particular emotion. Other times, I read something and I just feel very satisfied that what I read was well written.

Stephen King has a definite gift for writing. If you've never read that quote I have of him on my things to think about page, you should. It sums up what I thought was an undescribable emotion perfectly. I got the same feeling reading The Green Mile. Like describing the mouse as having "oil-drop eyes." What a vivid, perfect description.

I've actually come to respect Garrison Keillor's writing a lot also, thanks to salon.com. Sometimes he just writes the perfect phrase. He writes a love advice column for salon.com, and one phrase he used remains with me to this day. He was talking about being in love, and what that means, and among the other things you hear (it's someone you want to spend all your time with, dote over, etc.) he wrote that it's someone you want to be naked with. I mean, it's a little lusty, but this phrase summed up all these interesting ideas to me. I was just struck by it.

I don't have the patience to read many books, so I browse online a lot just because I like to read good online columnists in relatively short bites. I'm not sure why I'm writing all this, but I just appreciate good writing a lot. A random fact about me.

Henry has the most brazen attitude towards parking of any person I know. I was reminded of this because a friend of mine received a ticket today. He parked outside of Sweet Hall, next to that gate. There's a little space on the right of it; he parked there and got a ticket. Anyway, there was this one time, I was going to FiCS with the worship team equipment, and since we have to get the stuff to 370-370, we would drive onto campus. The way we usually went was through that gate by Sweet Hall.

Anyway, I was driving, I think by myself, and I was probably running late. And I get to the gate, and Henry has parked his car directly in front of the gate. I mean, it's bold enough to park near the gate, but he parks his car, identifiable by the Lawrenceville sticker, literally in the middle of the street, right in front of the gate so absolutely no one can get through, legitmately or otherwise.

I was so angry that I got out of my car, clenched my fists and yelled to the sky, "Henry!!!!!!!" It kind of looked like the pose in Shawshank when Andy is in the rain. And my voice was like Marlon Brando in Streetcar Named Desire, when he yells "Stella!!!!" I was so furious.

And that's my story.

Someone once told me that the only reason there's caffeine in Coke is to make it more addictive. Meaning, caffeine isn't a natural byproduct of the Coke making process; it's added. And it's not added because it adds taste; it doesn't add any (good) taste. So it's only purpose is to make Coke more addictive. I don't know, that's interesting to me.

Anytime I stay up all night, near the morning time, no matter what I've eaten the night previous, I always get tons of gas. I don't know what it is. Why would staying up late make me produce inordinate amounts of methane? It's a curious phenomenon.

I was reading the San Jose Mercury News yesterday and there was this article about a doctor who worked for some pharmaceutical company who committed suicide. It was a long story, but it reminded me of the Fugitive. Apparently, a hitman had been hired to kill the CEO of the company, and the guy was shot in the face, but he survived. This led to an investigation and they eventually determined who the hitman was, and that linked them to this doctor. Once the police got on his trail, he killed himself.

Anyway, it's a pretty crazy story, but this one part just killed me. The police had an idea who the gunner was, and when they searched his apartment, they found a bunch of incriminating evidence. Among them, and I'm not making this up, was a book on how to be a hitman. That absolutely killed me.

Here is my political map:

Supposedly, my personal views are most in line with those of Al Gore. Yikes.

I think the 2nd floor men's bathroom in Sweet Hall has a permanent urine stench. I went in there immediately after they cleaned it, and the smell was still overpowering. It's pretty disgusting.

My first Transformer was Mirage. Albert Shin (I think) broke him in half. My mom never let me have Megatron because it was a gun. But Billy Hwang had Megatron. When I was real small, I thought Billy Hwang was the coolest guy ever.

I was eliminated from the Santa Clara County Spelling Bee for spelling "braggadocio" as "braggadosio."

Professor Ullman still uses the UNIX mail program for e-mail.

Am I the only person who liked Clear Pepsi?

Why the heck am I doing this? I don't have time to write full entries because of my projects, but if I don't write anything, I'll go crazy. Don't ask me why, I just will. So this is my outlet for quick soundbites. As always, Dave starts a trend.