Archive for April, 2007

On Wine

Blog/News/Stuff: April 5th, 2007

What is good wine? When I took my first sip of a red wine, I was expecting something that resembled grape juice and alcohol. Instead, my tongue met an angry concoction that tasted like burning rubber soles. I don’t taste the grapes anymore. I smell that grapes USED to be part of the drink, but [...]

Week of April Fools


April 9th, 2007

IUB Photography Competition

Blog/News/Stuff: April 10th, 2007

I’ve entered two photos, which I’ll show later, into my school’s photo kontesto. (See full post to see photos)
First place for each category wins $75, second wins $50, and third place wins $25. The catagories are: Color, Black & White, Digital Prints/other photographic mediums. A rather boring choice in my opinion. There was no way [...]

So the other day, I met the creator of the internet.

Blog/News/Stuff: April 15th, 2007

My school hosted a talk on April 10th with Vinton Cerf, one of the creators of the internet, and current Chief Internet Evangelist over at Google.
According to UIUC, “Dr. Cerf is widely known as one of the founders of the Internet and as the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocol - the communications protocol that gave [...]

Google Games

Blog/News/Stuff: April 17th, 2007

On Satday, the 14th of April, UIUC hosted the first ever Google Games event over at the Siebel Center. It was intense. Google Games was comprised of three games, with 16 teams of five competing against each other. The first “game” was a series of puzzles, the second was a Wii sports competition, and the [...]