This was originally part of an online tag campaign, but I figured I’d also post it here for those who are interested in getting to know weird facts about me and my idiosyncrasies :p:
I didn’t pay a cent for my college education.
When I am embarrassed, I sweat profusely.
80% of the time I am listening [...]
On December 11th, Felix Baumgartner jumped off the top of the Taipei 101 tower (the tallest building in the world right now). The catch: He did it without permission.
From YouTube:
BASE jumper Felix Baumgartner leaped from the highest building in the world, the Taipei 101 Tower in Taiwan on December 11. The [...]
I gain a lot from the help of others. I absorb a lot of experience and knowledge vicariously through other people. It’s a really great thing. Helping others is an important part of my life.
Why?
Because so many people have helped me along the way.
Example: today in my verilog programming course, I asked the person sitting [...]
Mike Lee posted an interesting entry on how to think like a genius.
The eight strategies are from author Michael Michalko’s “Thinking like a genius: eight strategies used by the supercreative, from Aristotle and Leonardo to Einstein and Edison”:
Look at problems in many different ways, and find new perspectives that no one else has taken (or [...]
“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.”
These are the words of the late James Dean, who died at age 24. I saw this quote this weekend on a poster frame at Target. I stood there and read the same line over and over again. I fell in love with the [...]
Cell phone etiquette. I’ve been in situations where I don’t get a simple call back from a friend. I’ve been in numerous situations where I’ve been a jackass and forget to call people back. Last week, I wrote a post about how following up is uber important.
So I decided to come up with a set [...]
Here’s a cool little Googlie for your cellie that Kevin showed me last week.
Suppose you’re on the go. Using your text message function, you can:
Find locations of stores nearby.
1. Type in a store and zip code e.g. Safeway 95192
2. Send it to Google i.e. 466453
Google will text you back locations of Safeways in [...]
I sift through a load of useless (tangible) mail every single day, the majority of my mail is stuff that I end up recycling. The ratio is about 5:1, meaning I typically open 1 out of 5 mail items that actually looks important. Then, half the time these opened items turn out to be crap [...]
Transcript of Steve Jobs’ speech (source: Stanford):
This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.
I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. [...]
