Month: May 2007

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ATI (um, now AMD) makes a turd come back!

Competition is usually a good thing.  That’s especially the case from a consumer’s point of view.  It drives the businesses to deliver better products at better cheaper prices.  You say Intel, I say AMD.  You say nVidia, I say ATI, um… I mean now, AMD as AMD bought out ATI.

After what felt like decades of delays (though in effect about 6 months or so), ATI/AMD finally released HD 2900. If you just google search on  it, you will get loads of reviews saying how disappointing it is.  Why?  ‘Cause nVidia still is the king in the graphics processing kingdom.  8800GTX pwns the HD 2900!!  Without much trying even!    Why is this a sad news for me?  It’s because I had hopes for ATI merger with AMD.  AMD, if you are listening, get your act together!!   Don’t become another 3Dfx!!

As a die-hard PC gamer, I sure hope for healthy balance in the hardware industry.  AMD needs to make a comeback to Intel’s Core 2 Duo, and ATI needs to fight off 8800 GTX (now with Ultra).  This has been a nerd’s ticked-off show-down thread.   

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Confessions of a father: #28

So I was playing with the kids after I was done vacuuming.  It was kind of a spontaneous thing.  JJ got on my back from our bed and so I decided to jump onto the bed and let them bounce.  We did this a few times.  But when Anna got on my back after a few times, she bounced more than normal and hit her head on the corner of a shelf next to the bed!! 

There was bleeding.  I had to apply pressure to stop it.  At first, I tried to reason myself that it was Anna’s fault for bouncing too much.    Yeah, I know.  That was bad of me.  But then I realized that to truly take responsibility as a parent, you have to stand up for your share (of responsibility).  Though I didn’t throw her at the corner of the merciless shelf, I am the one responsible for playing on the bed to begin with.

She cried quite a bit.    I applied pressure for good half hour and in that time, I kept telling her that daddy was sorry and just comforted her.  Later on when Soojin found out, Soojin asked Anna if daddy yelled at her when she cried, she said no, but daddy stopped the bleeding and told her that he was sorry. 

Still…  I feel bad.  And thus ends my confessions.

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FLAC beats MP3 anyday!!!

So I remembered that I have some FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) music files on my computer and with my newly found X-Fi XtremeMusic sound card, I decided to give it a boot again. Couple that with awesome Foobar2000, pipe that through the PiMETA amplifier and listen through the wunderbar Sennheiser HD-535 and what do you get?? An audio bliss, my friends…

Pipe that lossless music of my favorites in the likes of Brave Saint Saturn’s “Daylight” from “The Light of Things Hoped For”, and Five Iron Frenzy’s “Eulogy” and “Phenomenon” by Thousand Foot Krutch, and my sentimental pick of “The Reason” by Hoobastank (yes, you read that right) and I am gliding through this late Sunday in musical haven.
In case, I haven’t, I will be sharing “Daylight” from Brave Saint Saturn soon…
Oh, here it is! Pay attention to the lyrics my friends… sheer beauty. Speaks volume… and well, space!

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The Perfect Food: Tofu

Yup.  Remember Bubba from “Forrest Gump” and shrimp?    That’s me baby!!  Just replace the shrimp with tofu!!

Seriously.  Tofu has to be the perfect food!!  All protein, nothing bad, just beans!! 
And I love eating it!!  You can eat it straight, steam it, fry it, eat it with kimchi, put them in stew, yumm….

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What it feels like to be a kid

So it rained today.  Again.  After the sun set, the kids wanted to ride the bike still.  So we went out.  Sure enough, there was this big puddle of rain water.  Soon, the kids started to bike across it back and forth.  Then, Anna got off her bike and started to run across!  And then jumped up and down.  And repeated for the whole time!  It’s good to be a kid.  They had sooo much fun!  I forgot what it feels like to be a kid.