Did anyone miss me Day 1-2: This was the first day of endless traveling. I woke up at around 5 so that I could get to the BART station by 6 AM. I then took a 1.5 hour ride into SFO, where I discovered that there was an enormous line at the international desk. Luckily, [...]
I will be going to India (on the most god-awful, convoluted flight schedule possible) tomorrow and will be there for about a week. Sadly (for all you readers more than for me, I’m sure), I won’t be gracing your RSS feed readers or subscription pages with my wonderfully composed prose. Oh, whatever shall you do [...]
Lex bad. Green Arrow starting a Justice League and stealing Lois away from Clark. Lana and Lex hot and steamy. Jimmy Olsen. Phantom Zone Kryptonians. What more can a comic nerd watching Smallville want? http://www.cwtv.com/cw-smallville.html Now beginning its sixth season, this new interpretation of the enduring Superman mythology and its classic characters blends realism and [...]
I used to scoff at people who got spyware attacks. Why? Because I’m very careful about what I download. I don’t frequent random ass websites. My antivirus program is always on and always scanning. I scan for spyware at least once a month (usually once every other week). I figured I was untouchable. Oh how [...]
I know all of you must be in complete suspense as to who won the vicious showdown between battle-hardy veteran Ben and the hot-blooded prodigy Vrushali. To be sure, the game’s result was ultimately very surprising. It started out as a simple match, but due to Yahoo’s default setting of a 5 minute wait-time for [...]
And the game is on! If you want to watch, its in the Veteran’s Vortex game room for Yahoo Reversi (yes, that’s right, we’re veterans) If you missed out on any of the coverage thus far:AnnouncementInterview with VrushaliInterview with Ben
Earlier, we featured an interview with Vrushali, the hot-shot contender. Now, the aged veteran has his say about the game: Interviewer: What do you think of Vrushali? Ben: As a person? She’s great. As a reversi player? She’s doomed against me. Interviewer: Oh really, and why’s that? Ben: Well, I beat her last time, didn’t [...]
This just in, the Ultimate Deathmatch has been scheduled for 4:30 PST. Stay tuned for complete coverage of this epic event including an interview with the veteran champ himself, a special on Reversi, a play-by-play re-cap of the game itself, and a final interview to conclude the events! As promised, here is the interview with [...]
Only once in a lifetime (or once every two months) does an epic battle the likes of which this world has never seen come to play — where titanic forces must face each other down in a no-holds-barred contest to the finish. mighty BEN “the Ben” (me) vs the awesome VRUSHALI-”I got stranded on my [...]
First semester, I had a physics class with Professor Melissa Franklin (the first female physicist to receive tenure at Harvard) who taught a class on Life at Low Reynold’s Number, or essentially life on the micro-scale as low Reynold’s number describes what happens when your mass is small in scale relative to viscosity (ie imagine [...]