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Fortune Cookies

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steveo
on December 27, 2003
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I don’t usually pay much attention to those silly fortune cookie messages. Occasionally I will come across one that would make me ponder. What follows below are two of them.

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Roadtrip to Seattle

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steveo
on January 6, 2003
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What an adventure. Spent the week at Washington with Quy’s sister. We left on Sunday, Dec 29th at 6 p.m. We rented a car and headed north on the I-5. Quy drove first. After we reached Sacramento, I took over for a while. Cruise control, baby! =) Everything was great until we reached the mountains and I encountered a light snow storm. Quy took over and drove for rest of the journey where we encountered a even bigger snow storm at Northern California, and dense fog and rain at Oregon and Washington. 18 hours later, beaten and tired, we reached our destination, Bremerton, WA (just east of Seattle). We spent Monday resting. Continue reading ‘Roadtrip to Seattle’

Christmas at the City of Sin

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on December 26, 2002
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Christmas at the City of Sin

What an interesting Christmas this has turned out to be. I spent Christmas Eve and Christmas with my friends at Las Vegas. It’s kind of ironic that a few years ago, I was spending Christmas at Catholic mass and this year, it’s the City of Sin. It has been a long time since I have been to Vegas. A lot has changed. The new themed casinos look great, especially the Venetian.

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Tribute to a Classic

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steveo
on April 16, 2001
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vMac

I’m starting to enjoy Mac OS X. It’s a little slow on this aging Yosemite G3 300Mhz. It’s amazing that this OS is based on one that ran very well on a 68k NeXT box. I had a little fun with emulation. Here’s a screenshot of Mac OS X running vMac, a Mac Plus emulator, using System 1.0.

Alot sure has changed since the first Mac OS GUI was created. If you notice in the snapshot, System 1.0 is only 171K in size, whereas Mac OS X is around 900MB.

I lost the original snapshot. It’s been recreated with Mac OS X 10.3 and System 1.1.

Language

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steveo
on February 18, 2001
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For some time now, programmers have been trying to create a machine that can think like a human being. I don’t think it will be possible when we don’t even know how the human thought process truely works.

What language do you think in? How do you think? Don’t you ever wonder? When I think, I hear my voice inside my head speaking English. How would be thinking like for someone who was born deaf and has never heard one’s own voice? Does one think through images?

Alot of people through history have claimed that God has spoken to them. How do they know it was God’s voice? What does God’s voice sound like? If God spoke to me, how would I know it was God?