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…

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.

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.

I picked it up.

“Sir, I believe you dropped this.”

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.

After being called a genius approximately fifty times, I realized that I should complement people more. To practice, I attempted to reciprocate the compliment at opportune moments. Following my natural instincts for this turned out to be disastrous, since my sense of humor is perhaps my strongest sense of all.

I tried eliminating the humor bias by considering the full set of commendable actions, and choosing to complement each action, as it occurred, with approximately .50 probability. After a few trials, it was painfully obvious that I was just inserting the compliment randomly.

Thinking back to conversations with all the people from Google who I’ve had the honor to problem-solve with, I’m beginning to believe there is some sort of training regimen for the effective use of the phrase “You’re a Genius!”

Todo: Figure out an effective “You’re a Genius!” algorithm.

It’s horribly conservative. I want my Einstein fro back.

ENTP: The Mad Scientist

The ENTP, like the ENTJ, is charismatic, outgoing, and intelligent. ENTPs are often quickwitted, clever, and genial; they typically display a highly organized, rational cognitive ability which makes them natural scientists and inventors.

ENTPs are creative, complex people who seek to improve their understanding of the natural world, usually by building armored fifty-story-tall robotic monsters with iron jaws and death-ray eyes, or by creating genetically mutated plagues that spread unstoppably across the land, turning all who are contaminated into mindless zombie drones. They are less likely to want to conquer the world than to destroy it utterly, reducing it to nothing but slag and rubble–though this is often merely a side-effect of their pursuit of knowledge.

RECREATION: ENTPs enjoy recreational activities which challenge them physically and intellectually, such as water skiing and porting Linux to their iPods. They are also fond of collecting gadgets like combination cellpone/PDAs and orbiting arsenals of brain lasers, which they may port Linux to as well.

COMPATIBILITY: ENTPs and ENTJs make natural companions, as the one’s unspeakable hunger for power complements the other’s unspeakable hunger for knowledge. They do not generally build successful relationships with ESFJs, as ENTPs they are prone to behaving in inconveniently erratic ways, which pisses ESFJs off to no end; and because ENTPs simply do not know how to dress appropriately for formal occasions.

Famous ENTPs include Spencer Silver (the inventor of Post-It Notes), Robert Oppenheimer, and Dr. Jeckyll.

Yep, I’m the mad scientist. But, instead of destroying the world, I’m here to save it. (It’s worth a shot.)

Description from here.