I won a little something for being generally helpful around the lab -- editing movies, debugging code, editing papers, and writing scripts in crazy languages that I haven't touched for years.
Friday, February 02, 2007
GRAIL: "Most Helpful" Awards
Today Pro held a surprise awards ceremony to celebrate surviving the Siggraph crunch.
I won a little something for being generally helpful around the lab -- editing movies, debugging code, editing papers, and writing scripts in crazy languages that I haven't touched for years.
I won a little something for being generally helpful around the lab -- editing movies, debugging code, editing papers, and writing scripts in crazy languages that I haven't touched for years.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Google Bag
Every quarter tons of companies, like Amazon, Google, Apple, and Microsoft come to give recruiting talks. During every talk, there's free food and a drawing for some prize. In all of my years in the computer science and engineering department, I've never won.
During today's Google talk, I entered my name into the raffle by filling out a row on an attendee information sheet: name, major, email etc. I also entered Andy's info.
Then the raffle began. There were four prizes, a chair, a lava lamp, a black laptop bag, and a red laptop bag. I really wanted that red laptop bag.
The first winner took the chair.
The second winner took the lava lamp.
The third winner took the black laptop bag.
When it was time to announce the fourth winner, I was desperately trying to mentally communicate my row number to Jing Jing, who was guessing numbers in the range of 1 to 80 or so.
Unfortunately, I had no idea what number I was.
Jing Jing plucked "40" out of thin air, and April Yu read the entry in disbelief.
"Kevin"
Andy exclaimed "Whoa, no way!" and someone in the audience asked, "Which Kevin?"
"Kevin Chiu"
Woot!
During today's Google talk, I entered my name into the raffle by filling out a row on an attendee information sheet: name, major, email etc. I also entered Andy's info.
Then the raffle began. There were four prizes, a chair, a lava lamp, a black laptop bag, and a red laptop bag. I really wanted that red laptop bag.
The first winner took the chair.
The second winner took the lava lamp.
The third winner took the black laptop bag.
When it was time to announce the fourth winner, I was desperately trying to mentally communicate my row number to Jing Jing, who was guessing numbers in the range of 1 to 80 or so.
Unfortunately, I had no idea what number I was.
Jing Jing plucked "40" out of thin air, and April Yu read the entry in disbelief.
"Kevin"
Andy exclaimed "Whoa, no way!" and someone in the audience asked, "Which Kevin?"
"Kevin Chiu"
Woot!
Monday, January 29, 2007
Gmail - picture spam levels down
Thank you Gmail team, for making it so picture spam doesn't get through to my inbox so easily. I don't know what you did, but it was a step in the right direction.
Friday, January 26, 2007
Unsend
Webmail needs an unsend feature.
*cough* Gmail *cough*
Have an option to have outgoing emails delayed by a user-defined amount of time. Any email sent less than x seconds ago will be available for unsending.
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Siggraph Submissions Complete!
Our lab's SIGGRAPH submissions have been successfully submitted. Yay!
In a few weeks, we'll find out if we get to present at SIGGRAPH.
Monday, January 22, 2007
Feature or bug?
In Firefox, hold down shift and double click on any element in any web page. It disappears.
I was composing a mail in Gmail just a few minutes ago until I accidentally double clicked it out of existence.
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