Author Archives: kenneth

I made 80+ flash cards to study for my jujitsu exam!  I didn’t even do that for a single one of my Stanford classes (or else I’ve buried such memories long ago)!  Yikes!  Hadaka Jime San?  Shika No Itsusoku?  Akushu Kotemaki Tori?  No problem.

For the next six months, my Shell MasterCard will reward me with a 10% rebate for every dollar I spend at Shell.  (It goes down to 5% after six months.)  Wow!  So if they’re charging $2.25/gallon, I’m effectively paying $2.03/gallon, right?  Take that, Arco! Speaking of credit cards, Jeff brought up the perplexing perspective (and I have probably butchered up […]

I come in the office this morning, and suddenly I have three possibilities for this summer: Roadtrip to LA to visit friends and test drive the Prius, trip to Australia to visit my brother and some family friends and kangaroos, or possibly a very lonely but all-travel-expenses paid trip to Bermuda.  Hmm… which door prize will […]

My worst nightmare came true this morning (well, not the one about going to school naked or how Darth Vader is your father).  I was teaching a workshop on Audacity audio mixing program in the Multimedia Studio, and nothing on the Instructor Station worked!  There it was, projected for all the world to see, error […]

Anyone have tips for remembering dreams?  I still have such a hard time.  If I wake up and just lie there and not move, then I just tend to fall asleep again.  Many times when I manage to wake up with a dream hot off the press, I make a grab for the pen and […]