The bugle emulator is a little depressing. There’s a shortage of bugle players, so they have to use these. Looks like there’s an organization dedicated to aiding the military in this regard.
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When I was eating “linner” at EVK today at about 5pm, they played this song. It’s really catchy! I looked it up when I came back to my room. Here’s an awesome music video of the song (1985). Continue reading for the lyrics.
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Dr. Gene Bickers, Physics professor at USC, today demonstrated thermal conductivity by walking on burning hot coals.
As a follow up to my USC email post, not that to keep things consistent, it’s necessary to change Thunderbird’s default setting under Account Settings -> Composition & Addressing. Instead of start my reply below the quote, choose start my reply above the quote. This is consistent with Gmail and USC’s web-based email client.
I was using 92% of my USC email storage capacity. They only allow 75 MB to be stored. So I downloaded all my email using the latest version of Mozilla Thunderbird (an excellent email client, by the way), and checked my account. Nope, I still have 70 of 75 MB used. I Googled for “usc email remove from server” and found my answer.
I’m just going to summarize on my past hour of web browsing. TechCrunch’s “Companies I’d like to profile (but don’t exist)” has interesting new website ideas for people looking for something to do. Let’s take a look at what progress people are making.
1. Better and Cheaper Online File Storage: box.net
2. Blog/website Email Lists: I couldn’t agree more. Feedblitz makes me sick
3. Portable Reputations: Rapleaf
6. Free Music: recently, I’ve been very impressed with SingingFish. They have something amazing going on there
7. Open Source Yellow Pages: sweet idea
8. Podcast Transcriptions: how are we going to find the podcasters and convince them to pay for this?
9. Decentralized Review Aggregation: yes! I want this! Google doesn’t cut it. Too many commercial sites
10. Build Something Cool with SSE: That’s bidirectional RSS. Nice idea
Last night I dreamt that the Russians (or some other country) thought they could nuke various US cities without retaliation. I’m not sure if it was a video (comedy) or a video game. But they were happy and laughing until, a few minutes after their strike, nukes came raining down on them and destroyed their country. Weird.
Talk about putting lots of things into one post. First I went to Evergreen with Michael Stalcup and Theo. It was a very interesting sermon. Personal examples really help to communicate the message. Then I went to SIT (Sophomores-In-Training, I think we’re calling it) at Larissa’s. It’s the very last Spring Training session. Next we’ll be going to the Summer Conference. I’m actually looking forward to it. I’ll need to make sure the date is cleared, and invite friends to come. Nick came to USC for the Admitted Students Reception, and it sounds like he thought it was pretty cool. Hopefully he decides to come.
I’m typing this on my laptop in Mike Stalcup and Jon Lo’s room because I don’t want to be lonely in my room. It’s 3:32 AM, and I don’t want the day to end. It’s been great. Michael and Jon are messing with their computers, making Windows look like OS X or something completely new. Michael’s also trying programs that imitate Dashboard and Exposé.
