Archive for August, 2003

friday five

Friday, August 15th, 2003

You know, I probably am supposed to do specific questions, but I just decided to pick a random five. Plus, as an added challenge, I’ll provide the answers and you get to figure out the questions.
1. California Pizza Kitchen: Rustica.
2. It’s massive and all the rooms have an awesome view, even they’re tiny and wedge [...]

cali escapes

Friday, August 15th, 2003

I am going to have to keep this short. I am currently at USC using one of their ancient iMacs. These computers are running os 9.2 and only have Netscape 4.7 available as a browser for guest users. Netscape is not rendering MT correctly, so I don’t know how much I will be able to [...]

holy shit

Saturday, August 9th, 2003

Check this out. AT&T Labs has come up with this awesome TTS system. Check out the different languages. French sounds pretty authentic, although without accents it sometimes is a little flat. The women seem to sound better than the men, which is true with Speech on the macintosh too. Not quite sure why, maybe the [...]

A Morning With Jesse

Friday, August 8th, 2003

Well, Chioke told me I haven’t blogged enough lately, and it’s true.
I haven’t blogged enough lately. Actually, i’ve been busy. But you knew that already. Let me tell you some things you don’t know.
Well, lets see now. There are actually many things you don’t know about me and never will. Parts of my busy life [...]

chika wha? say it with me now.

Thursday, August 7th, 2003

This is something that I can’t quite understand. I really really really cannot comprehend why anyone would buy anything purveyed by a spammer. Even if it was something appealing, isn’t it a little odd to buy something from email advertising that was unsolicited? It was promulgated (sorry I just wanted to throw that in) today [...]