Kevin Chiu

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• Kevin Chiu 1:32 am on November 9, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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  Glasses KO’ed 

  

  10/31, left side fell off.

  11/4, eye exam + new glasses ordered. (eyesight actually improved!)

  11/9, right side fell off.

  Replacement ETA 11/14 Ahh…

   

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• Kevin Chiu 5:31 am on April 6, 2008 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Google ( 63 ), Personal   

  Google, Please don’t screw this up! 

  Google’s purchase of DoubleClick is intended to boost its revenue through ads that include pictures and video.

  The last thing I want to see from the company that brought us the unobtrusive text advertisement is video and banner ads.

  Update Idea: Convert all of Doubleclick’s image and video ads into unobtrusive text ads.

   

• Kevin Chiu 8:31 pm on March 11, 2008 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: games ( 5 ), Personal   

  Game of the Year 

  

  I played Super Smash Brothers, and it was good.
  I played Super Smash Brothers Melee, and it was awesome.

  This coming spring break, I will play Super Smash Brothers Brawl, and it will defy my ability to express it’s euphoria-extolling virtues with mere superlatives.

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  • andyehou 7:32 pm on March 19, 2008 Permalink

    That’s funny, I feel the opposite:

    I played Super Smash Brothers, and it was the best moment of my childhood.
    I played Super Smash Brothers Melee, and it was okay.
    I played Super Smash Brothers Brawl, and it was terrible.

  • Kevin Chiu 10:00 am on March 24, 2008 Permalink

    I have to admit I wasn’t blown away at first, but the game grows on you.

    If another game comes out this year that’s better than this one, I’ll have to update this post.

• Kevin Chiu 2:36 am on February 21, 2008 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Columbia ( 4 ), Personal   

  Giant Clump of Money 

  The other day I was buying groceries at Morton William’s — right across the street from Columbia — and the man in front of me dropped an enormous pile of cash as he was leaving the checkout lane.

  I picked it up.

  “Sir, I believe you dropped this.”

   

• Kevin Chiu 3:07 am on February 9, 2008 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: academic ( 79 ), Columbia ( 4 ), Personal   

  Industrial Light and Magic 

  ILM came to campus today to recruit for their research and development teams.

  They presented an overview of the behind the scenes work that went into the Transformers movie. The combined work of the company was very impressive, but the narrow scope of the individual job descriptions was quite worrying.

  Position Available: Virtual City Substrate Effects Engineer. Only the world’s best sidewalk crack designer need apply.

  On the other hand, the artist/designer jobs seemed pretty cool. If only I had a 3D portfolio…

  Afterwards, we enjoyed free lunch at an upscale Manhattan restaurant. I ordered my favorite fish. Mmmm.