Randomness

So, for like the past two weeks I have been telling myself to get on here and write something but I have been really busy with school (and when it wasn't school, it was sleep lol ). And the busyness hasn't slowed down! I just have a breath here in-between classes today! So, I thought I would rack my brain and try and come up with something to put on here lol.

One thing that has happened, One of the faculty here at the school turned the big 5-O and aahhh, that has been a "thorn in her side?" lol. First we had a party for her the weekend before (surprise party), which was really sweet and really mean all at the same time :) Her family flew/drove down and surprised her, and then pretty much everyone gave her gifts that "mourned" the loss of year #49 :) Then, on her actual birthday, they wheeled her around in a wheelchair and papered her car and all kinds of fun stuff!

aannndd, I was guna post more, but I'll leave it for another time, seeing as how this has taken me a whole day to post already :)

Elementary my dear Watson!

This morning, I posted "Goooo Watson!" as my status update on Facebook.


Only one person seems to have understood.


* sigh * the pains of being a nerd....


FOLKS!!!!!!!


Watson is a Computer! now, yes I know, Watson was Sherlock Holmes right hand man, best friend, deputy, whatever you want to call it, but, thats not who/what Im talking about! Dr. David Ferrucci of IBM and 25 others under him have built a computer (Watson) that can answer questions. It can answer questions so well in fact, that IBM is currently using Watson to compete in Jeopardy! AND ITS WINNING! Last night concluded the first of three rounds, pitting Watson against two of Jeopardy!'s best and brightest! Ken Jennings (won 74 games in a row) and Brad Rutter (won 3.25 million, most cash awarded on Jeopardy!). Check out this video of Watson in action!!!

And check this video for some of the earlier stages

Some other websites that have written about Watson are:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2375791,00.asp

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/13/ibms-watson-supercomputer-destroys-all-humans-in-jeopardy-pract/

And the official Watson Page is:

http://www-03.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/

BIRTHDAY!!!

No, not mine :)

Its Jules Verne's Birthday! Or what would have been his 183rd birthday! You have probably all seen the cool little logo that Google has put up. If not, you should check it out here! Jules Verne is one of my favorite authors of all time, so, when I saw this link, I thought it was kinda cool :D what do you think? Do you have any favorite Verne books?

If you have never read any Jules Verne (I am sorry for you if that is the case) check out this link. You can get free Jules Verne books!

Weekends

AAhhh, the weekend is past us. It is the start of a new week, back at the ol grindstone, working till you drop. I dont think I have ever appreciated weekends nearly as much as I do now. This past weekend I had the great fortune to go out to lunch and hang out with some friends from school (I'm a commuter, so that doesnt happen a lot for me) and we had a blast!!! But, usually, weekends are a time to catch up on homework, rest, clean the house, clean my cloths, clean the yard.....visit people, have folks over, just all kinds of stuff that I just cant seem to find time for during the week. Sometimes though, I waste my weekends :( just lying around sleeping all day (SHOCK! lol not really :) or just not really doing anything at all. And those weekends are never any fun :( SO next weekend, yall get out! DO something! take your family and have dinner someplace! Just dont sit around on your tucus.

Yet another Techy post :)

So! I was talking to one of my professors yesterday and he was showing me his Google voice (GV) app on his Iphone. Truthfully, I wasn't impressed right off. I had tried out GV before on my computer, and I thought it was pretty useless. But then he told me..........wait for it.......you get FREE TEXT MESSAGING through GV!! That got my attention! I don't have a texting plan on my Droid, even though I do text people. So I decided I needed to figure GV out!!! Turns out you really can get free texting, IF you use the GV app. If you just have GV push your messages to your phone, it still costs you messages on your plan. So! If you have a smart phone and dont have text messaging, download GV app!!! It works on Apple, Android and Blackberry phones through an app, and on any other phone that can access the mobile web. To get more information and download the app, check out Google Voice Here!

Another possibly cool function of GV is - It gives you a local phone number that you can give out instead of your real phone number. Using GV for phone calls is FREE to ANY phone! except for international calls of course.


If anyone chooses to try GV and is having a hard time figuring it out, please just leave me a comment below saying so and I will post a walk-through of how to set it up.

Android Honeycomb!

ITS COMING!!!! WOOHOO!!! And I cant wait!!!!!!!!!


Ok, so most of you guys that read my blog probably don't know/don't care to know what Honeycomb is. Which is a shame! cause its looking pretty sweet!!! Honeycomb is Google Android's 3.0 OS that will be coming out sometime middle of this year I think. This will also be ushering in a HOST of Android tablets (competition for the IPad), which is Awesome!!!! Here are some pictures from Google's hands on yesterday!

Gizmodo has some good reads if you are interested!
http://gizmodo.com/5750049/the-new-features-of-android-30-honeycomb

Yummy!

I meant to get these up last night, but homework and sleep kinda got in the way.

MMMm! Now thats some real food! We got Beans and Cornbread along with a side of Collard Greens (we had salad too). And some sweet tea :) aahhh...... aint much better.