currently in LEX

until thursday, but will fly to LEX again next week.
apparently your package sent to me got to seattle last weekend, postmarked august sometime. nick picked it up for me.
amazon.com has a new interface.

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Just randomly wondering today

about the CS convention of 0-indexing things. I remembered when I was taking AP comp sci in high school my teacher (mr steele…) said it was because of the nice for loop predicates it makes, although I’m not sure if that’s the only reason.
Apparently it is the main reason (according to Dijkstra), well that and [...]

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i’m hungry now

dry noodle place next to the elementary school i went to

Some kind of breakfast buffet thing i had on alishan

peking duck

Cutest dog ever…what kind of dog is this?

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random (funny) picture of the day

notice how it says “外銷美國” (for n conseq. years) on the outside label. I wonder if this is why I used to see these boxes in the bakery outside of 99 ranch in Richmond, CA…hahaha
I found these in the super-supermarket in taiwan. (kinda like a costco but maybe less bulkness and more super…I mean sells [...]

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yeah…kinda addicted to this song now (simple and clean)

kingdom hearts theme song:

random note: i kinda really like Sora (the main male character from kingdom hearts), and not entirely because of his Squaresoft hair (haha, i never liked the FF8 or FF10 main guy characters that much, and they all had Squaresoft hair.) I didn’t play kingdom hearts for that [...]

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Chimps act like humans

article
For decades, researchers have puzzled over the fact that people often consider an item more valuable when it’s theirs compared to how valuable they felt it was before they owned it. For instance, when college students were offered either a coffee mug or a chocolate bar, they had no strong preference for either, an experiment [...]

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Utada Hikaru-Simple and Clean (live)

I’ve only heard the japanese version of this song before, i didn’t know an english version existed. I don’t know how anyone can sing this perfectly live….

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yay! gary videos

song titled “kafka on the shore” (like the book). when i first heard it it reminded me of Jacky Cheung from (very late) 90s a lot, i thought it was a cover of one of his songs. but apparently he wrote the song…thought not the lyrics. sounds great though…

i don’t know [...]

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amy melts, remelts, (reforms?), and melts some more

i think the hairstyle and what he wears generally fits him pretty well…it’s pretty flattering actually I think
nick maybe if you don’t cut your hair eventually it’ll turn into that (?). See it’s not too bad to have hair covering ear i’m sure :)

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nick your cookie is so scary!

it’s like made entirely out of chocolate, sugar, and oil.
not much flour involved at all.

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