Straight from the Lam’s Mouth

Why would you not evolve the use of the Mac Mini to a HTPC (home theater PC)? Look at the form factor, people have wet dreams about connecting the Mini to their TVs in their living rooms. Put some movies on iTunes Music Store with the TV shows that already exist. People can download video podcasts, TV shows, music videos, and movies to their Mac Mini and play them on their HDTVs. In addition, you could put a TV card in the Mac Mini and use it as a DVR. People could then put all this video content easily on their iPod videos. It just makes sense. Why won't you just do it already instead of teasing us with all this other crap like a $99 leather case for an iPod or a $349 iPod Hi-Fi (isn't it just a Bose Sounddock, except worse and more expensive)? Look at how small it is! It already has DVI-out to an HDTV! It has a powerful processor! Why?

http://www.cs.duke.edu/~klam/commercial.mp4

My fourth tenting experience in as many years started today with sprinting to the "top secret" tenting location in the Gardens by the bridge over the pond. We are a very progressive tent with 2:1 ratio of girls to guys.

1. John Erickson
2. Stephanie Brooks
3. Adam Buntaine
4. Erin Conter
5. Katie Greene
6. Maiana Hanshaw
7. Keith Lam
8. Jenny Reckleff
9. Sarah Rock
10. Jeff Sheely
11. Kim Stawarz
12. Jen Yang

"Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable." - Trey Parker and Matt Stone

Who is this Blue Devil trying to hit on Emma? I mean seriously you would think they are dating or something...

My friends always ask me what kind of questions I get in my interviews.  Most of my interviews are for Software Engineer (Programmer) or Technical Consultant. Here are some example questions one could get

The Oldest Plays the Piano Two MIT math grads bump into each other while shopping at Fry’s. They haven't seen each other in over 20 years. First grad to the second: "How have you been?" Second: "Great! I got married and I have three daughters now." First: "Really? How old are they?" Second: "Well, the product of their ages is 72, and the sum of their ages is the same as the number on that building over there..." First: "Right, ok... Oh wait... Hmm, I still don't know." Second: "Oh sorry, the oldest one just started to play the piano." First: "Wonderful! My oldest is the same age!" How old was the first grad’s daughter?

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Read about them at LiveScience.com

1. True - Chickens can live without a head
2. False - Lightning never strikes the same place twice
3. False - Water drains backwards in the Southern Hemisphere due to the Earth's rotation
4. False - Hair and fingernails continue growing after death
5. False - Humans use only 10 percent of their brains
6. Semi-True - A dog's mouth is cleaner than a human's
7. False - There is no gravity in space
8. True - A falling cat will always land on its feet
9. True - Eating a poppy seed bagel mimics opium use
10. True - You get less wet by running in the rain
11. False - A penny dropped from the top of a tall building could kill a pedestrian
12. False - The five second rule (safe to eat off the ground within 5 seconds)
13. False - Adults don't grow new brain cells
14. False - The Great Wall of China is the only manmade structure visible from space
15. True - Chicken soup can cure the common cold
16. False - Animals can predict natural disasters
17. True - Yawning is "contagious"
18. False - Seasons are caused by the Earth's proximity to the sun
19. False - Men think about sex every seven seconds
20. False - It takes seven years to digest gum

Not interested in the teams playing in a football game? Bet on the score instead. Now you will care about the game, or at least the score. I couldn't find a good free form to printout, so I made one (printable pdf version). If any of this is helpful, feel free to click a sponsored link on the right or below. Here is how the popular pool betting game Squares works:

1. Get people to pick a square. There are two options: you can cut up the grid into 100 squares, label them, and pick them randomly out of a cup. Or you can leave the grid intact and let people pick the any square they want. If you want this to be fair you need to randomize the row and columns after people pick their squares because 0,3, and 7 are statistically superior to 2.
2. You want to sell all 100 squares to guarantee someone always winning. If you can't find 100 people, then let people buy more than 1 square. You also have the option of carrying over the payout to the next quarter, but it sucks when no one wins. So make sure the grid is full.
3. The x,y pair means (home, away) the last digit of the scores (e.g. 7 is the last digit of 7, 17, 27, and so on). For instance, if you have square (0,0) and the score at the end of any quarter is 10-0, 0-0, 0-10, etc. then you win. Remember: order matters, 3-7 is not the same as 7-3
4. A payout schedule has to be determined ahead of time. Common payout schedule is supplied below.

John Bunting didn't want to play Willie Parker even though he had a 4.28sec 40-yard time because he wanted a more physical running back. I can't fathom having a player like Parker on my depth chart sitting on the sidelines, but UNC could apparently. I mean come on Duke beat UNC while Willie Parker was still there, clearly Bunting has no clue how to coach a football team. But its okay, I can laugh cause UNC had him and didn't play the current record holder for longest TD run in the Super Bowl.

This is my new idea for my eCommerce class.So you might have seen Digg.com, where websites links are "dugg" by users and the ones with the most "diggs" are at the top. This process is for filtering out stories that are not interesting. However, sports are slightly less global because what may be interesting to Duke fans may not be interesting to UCLA fans. Here is where we separate from Digg. There will be more segregated part that filters stories based on school (eg. Duke, Memphis, Texas, etc.), sport (basketball, football, soccer, etc.), or friends. So that way Duke fans can find interesting stories only about Duke, football fans can find articles only about football, and users can find stories only their friends think are interesting.