Olympic Logo

Here is how the olympic logo was developed for Peking 2008.....

Baseball 2008

Ok, the season's just started, so I'm going to pick the teams I'm cheering for this year. We'll see in October if any of them actually accomplished anything....

AL East: Toronto Blue Jays

AL Central: Cleveland Indians

AL West: Texas Rangers

NL East: NY Mets

NL Central: Chicago Cubs

NL West: San Diego Padres

Martin Luther and Wittenberg

So I went to the quiet little town of Wittenberg that wasn't so quiet around 500 years ago. Here's where the Protestant Reformation began! Martin Luther and his insights of "justification by faith" captivated Christians and changed the course of human history!

Here is the door of the Schlosskirche.  This was where Martin Luther hung his 95 theses for debate, challenging the efficacy of indulgences.  The original door burned down, and this rebuilt door inscribes his 95 theses in commemeration.

Here a statue of Martin Luther, in the Wittenberg town square.

This is the Marienkirche, where Martin Luther preached.  This is the pulpit (probably rebuilt though) where Martin Luther would have preached his Reformation message from!

"Faith is a living and unshakable confidence, a belief in the grace of God so assured that a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake." 

Olympic Torch and San Francisco

The Olympic torch is coming through San Francisco within the next few days. Protestors that are pro-Tibet have voiced their opinions, including one brave soul who climbed the Golden Gate Bridge:

(Picture from SF Chronicle, read the article here).

This week's protests on Tuesday and Wednesday should prove interesting... anyone who wants to join the protests can view these websites:

http://www.sfteamtibet.org/
http://www.sftorch2008.org/

Boycott the Genocide Olympics

The stuff going on in Tibet is downright unjust....

Cultural Genocide in Tibet committed by China

Why are countries such cowards when it comes to China's outright gross violations of basic human rights?

BOYCOTT THE GENOCIDE OLYMPICS!!!

Family Day

Dear Mom and Dad,

I hope you had a great family day!

Billary in trouble

Man, how the mighty have fallen...Billary Clinton is truly reeling after the Potomac primaries and this:

Clinton Ex-Campaign Manager Backs Obama

This primary season is soooo interesting!

Homework Sucks!

I knew it!!!!!

That's why I just didn't bother doing my homework!

Read Article

Are you freakin' kidding me!?!?!?!

Geez! What's up with these st00pid airlines!?!?!?!?! I hate flying more and more!

What the heck!?

Pats NOT perfect

He he he he,

Stupid Pats are not perfect after all.....

Randy Moss still has no Superbowl ring.....


He he he he he......

(Get this straight though, I am no Giants fan)

They got me' name right!

Cool, this time I was interviewed, they got my name correct.....

YES!

Link to Interview Summary

What would Martin Luther King Jr. say?

The Toronto District School Board trustees have approved a plan of the first publicly funded black-focused schools. The Globe and Mail has an article on McGuinty's unwillingness to take a stand:

Read the article

Isn't this a step backwards? Why are we encouraging segregation?

MOM, I lost some weight...

I lost about 4 pounds when I went to Germany. This proves that traveling to Europe and eating meat and potatoes is good for your diet.

SO THERE, MOM!!!

The Goal

I think its pretty obvious that an OT win is far more superior than a stupid shootout.....

Here's a great goal:








To the junior Nats, congratulations!

Boooo! Booooooo!

Booooooooooo!

Four weeks is not long enough of a trip for Europe. If anybody is going to visit in the future, make sure they stay at least 6 weeks.


Boooooooooo! Boooooooooooooooooo!

No hablo español!

Welcome to España! A week trip to Barcelona, Sevilla and Granada proved how good Spanish life is. I highly recommend southern Spain to everyone. I recommend a trip to: Sevilla, Cordoba, Granada, Malaga, Cadiz and Ronda. Take up some sun in Costa de la Luz and maybe take a ferry from Algeciras to Tangiers. I would say that a one month trip to Spain ought to do it!

Travels to a far far land...

Here are pictures from a mysterious land known as Europe. Here are pictures from Budapest, Praha, Wien and Dresden. It's up to you to see if you know which picture belongs to which country.

Conversation with M and D

So I called M today to wish her a happy birthday and D picked up the phone. The enlightening phone conversation went like this:

Me: Hi D. What are you doing for M's birthday?
D: Did you forget M's birthday today?
Me: Noooooo. Did you?
D: Nooooooooooooo. Did you?
Me: D, you forgot M's birthday, didn't you?
D: Noooooooooooooooooo. You did.
Me: No I didn't, I just called home to wish M a happy birthday.
D: Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

Such a deep conversation!

Academic integrity

Here's a rare serious post on my blog. I recently went to the big device conference and saw that a paper was published by a group at Stanford (by two big name EE professors). The professors (and their grad students, of course) were reporting on some simulations for a particular device. However, students in my research group had found similar results earlier, and chose not to publish these simulation results without experimental data.

Now here's the bad part. The main professor on the paper is in charge of a research center involving many research groups from different universities. He is also the Chair of the conference that I attended. He had heard a presentation from my research advisor during one of the research center updates - basically, this prof knew what one of the students in my group had studied yet still decided to publish his own paper. Not only that, the other professor on the paper was previously a professor at my school before moving to Stanford, and had a close working relationship with our group. Talk about dishonesty.

That's just not right. BOYCOTT STANFORD. They conduct some dirty business.

Pro-Bowlers from the Bay Area teams

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA... This had me laughing for a while:

"The Bay Area's NFL teams haven't been stellar on offense this season, but they're certainly skilled when it comes to giving the ball back to the opponent.

Power and placement, along with the NFL's best net averages, secured Pro Bowl berths for 49ers punter Andy Lee and Raiders punter Shane Lechler."

You can find the full San Francisco Chronicle article here.