Unfortunately, the best pizza to be found in this part of the valley is Dominos. So we had one of the bottles of Dom with the large pie. Now if you'll excuse me, 2/5 of a bottle of champagne is more than enough to do me in...

Since classes started today, it was necessary to spend yesterday at the beach. Silly me, I thought taking the dogs would be great. Unfortunately, Thunder still had his ear infection, and couldn't come. Tawny was more than happy to spend an hour each way in the car, but she didn't quite figure out what to do at the beach. At the bark park, Thunder basically showed her that she could run around and pee on whatever she wanted. Alone, she wasn't very sure. Not to mention this dog is a huge priss. She didn't like getting dirty from the sand, and god forbide she get wet. Of course, the sand was too hot for her little butt and drinking any water was out of the question. She was willing enough to hang out near the surf as long as she was near people. End result - I never bothered to put on suntan lotion since it wasn't particularly hot, so I now have a very minor sunburn.

Anyway, my one class today was Animats-Based Modeling, which is destined to be awesome. UCLA limits grad class sizes, so there's only ~17 people. The basic premise of the class is aritifical life, which deals with modeling groups and populations of insects/animal-like creatures.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/09/23/life.evolution.reut/index.html
Fourth paragraph.

http://www.rpatrick.com/more/polishvirus/

I just got back from the DMV, with a new piece of paper in tow and an extra hole in my NJ driver's license. In 3-4 weeks, I'll also have a California driver's license.

Driving on Sepulveda has given my life new meaning. There's nothing like speeding around all the turns, flying past all the people who can't drive. Just picture any car commercial with a curve road and Car X flying around turns. It may not always be faster than taking the 405, but it is so much more fun.

And you just don't get it.

Yesterday evening, at Jamba Juice, the cashier asked me what I wanted. One strawberry tsunami^H^H^H surfrider (silliest name change ever). Anything else? Could I have it for free? Sure! ?!?! The guy (whose name happened to be Guy) hit a few buttons on the register, bringing my grand total to zero. Free Jamba Juice!

Optical mice are considered "eunuchs hardware" because they lack balls.

A conversation between 4 police officers and an extremely elderly gentleman, sitting in his baby blue Cadillac circa 1972:

"They didn't overreact; you were driving on the sidewalk."

His Caddy was still parked on the sidewalk when we walked by again 10 minutes later.

My dad's friend, who has spent many years in the car industry, told him that the Elantra is a better car than the Civic. I personally think that the clutch on the Elantra is absolute mush and there is a noticable lack of Elantra coupes, while the steering and everything else are pretty nice. On the other hand, I'd much prefer the Civic. Any thoughts to sway the decision one way or an other?

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