I have long championed the need for intelligent software to turn around basic information stored in various places (computer, PDA, smartphone, whatever) in a sundry of formats (SQL databases, XML files, Excel spreadsheets) and present it in a more meaningful, graphical representations. Being a single … Read More →
Monthly Archives: August 2004
Thoughts on the new iMac
!(alignright)http://www.sensoryoutput.com/wp-images/postings/imacg5.jpg(The new Apple iMac G5)!:http://www.apple.com/imac/ Today, Phil Schiller gave his keynote presentation at the Apple Expo in Paris, where he presented the “brand-new iMac G5″:http://www.apple.com/imac/. The iMac G5 was expected as Apple publicly acknowledged its delay (uncharacteristically confirming its existence) at the last quarterly earnings … Read More →
AMCAS
For those unfamiliar with the medical school application process, the AAMC(Association of American Medical Colleges) hosts the AMCAS(American Medical College Application Service), an online primary application for application to many (but not all) medical schools. I started my primary application for entry in the fall … Read More →
Trials and Tribulations
Normally, I would like to post more interesting topics about science or technology, but of late my distractions have poured out for all to see and read about here at sensory output. Alas, I have not really come across much that piqued my interest in … Read More →
Not to plan
Do you ever believe that you have thought something out and that it should go exactly according to plan? Never kid yourself because that will never be the case. I feel so naïve sometimes for my foolishness with regard to such “planning,” as anything involving … Read More →
Need to read
!(alignright)http://www.sensoryoutput.com/wp-images/postings/davinci.jpg(Dan Brown’s The DaVinci Code)! After a huge lull in my personal reading, I have picked out a few books to engage in my spare time—what little there is—including Dan Brown’s _The DaVinci Code_, Brown’s _Angels and Demons_, and Joanne K. Rowling’s _Harry Potter, tome … Read More →
Powell Pictures
As promised, here is the link to pictures from house boating on Lake Powell on the Arizona/Utah border. I should have more as soon as I get pictures from other people and consolidate them, so stay tuned. * “Lake Powell 2004″:http://www.sensoryoutput.com/photos/lakepowell2004/ I had hoped to … Read More →
Motivation
!(alignright)http://www.sensoryoutput.com/wp-images/postings/sad_me.png(Me. Kyle Rove)! What motivates people? This question applies to our lives on a multitude of levels: minute to minute, day to day, and life to death. As intelligent creatures, we have the capacity to incline ourselves to perform the mundane, necessary tasks required of … Read More →
Nuts.
ape, barmy, batty, berserk, bonkers, cracked, crazed, cuckoo, daft, delirious, demented, deranged, dingy, dippy, erratic, flaky, flipped, flipped out, freaked out, fruity, haywire, idiotic, insane, kooky, lunatic, mad, maniacal, mental, moonstruck, nuts, nutty, potty, psycho, screw loose, screwball, screwy, silly, touched, unbalanced, unglued, unhinged, unzipped, … Read More →
US Open
!(alignright)http://www.sensoryoutput.com/wp-images/postings/ferrero.jpg(Juan Carlos Ferrero)! I decided to shirk my school and work responsibilities further this evening to watch a few “US Open”:http://www.usopen.org/ tennis matches. I watched the last three sets of the four and a half hour plus match between Juan Carlos Ferrero and Tomas Zib. … Read More →