April 2010
34 posts
March 2010
36 posts
Computer science enrollment continues growth, but... →
Today in class our professor just mentioned this.
At the master’s level, there was a slight increase in new students, less than two percent. The biggest difference was the increase of non-resident alien graduates to roughly two-thirds of those enrolled, up from 55.8 percent in 2008. Other master’s stats, like gender ratios, have held.
Training Schedule
I sat down with one of my coaches and worked out a good training schedule that fits my work/school schedule pretty well. The main focus is going to be on Olympic Lifting and skills training. O-Lifting will help improve my form and get my lifts bigger. While gymnastics will help with those HSPU’s and Muscle-Ups. After one class I can already do Bar Muscle-Ups fairly easy and the rings version...
Facebook Threatens Greasemonkey Script Writer →
The script cleans up your Facebook feed by removing annoying application spam, such as quizzes, crap your friends do on Farmville and Mafia Wars, and also the messages such as “x became a fan of y”, “x joined group y”, “x became friends with y”, “x is attending event y”.
Lady Gaga, she's so hot right now.
Starry: I thought of Bernie when I heard lady gaga's telephone on the radio
Bernie: Haha, that damn song is so catchy
Starry: I wanna setup for B's mom's calling ringtone lol
Bernie: A ringtone for when my Mom calls?!?! Haha... "Stop calling, stop calling, I don't wanta talk anymore" :)
about an hour ago ·
Starry: Haha yeah I've been singing it last nite. Good song for freaking hardcore callers
about an hour ago ·
Bernie: I better set that as your ringtone then... since you keep blowing up my phone ;)
about an hour ago ·
Starry: Yeah right!! U r removed from my contact list now
Bernie: Its just my name... you will always have my number.
Starry: It's moved to do not call list now :p or I'll give that # to gays hahahaha
Bernie: Pssh.. fine. We'll see who will carry you outta of the club now =P
Trash Talking
Bernie: Did a little chipper WoD at Drake and meet up with TT Lo... The stalker, who took pics of me over 500 feet away on sectionals.
Tracy: DID NOT!
Bernie: Haha =P
Tracy: >__
Bernie: Only if it's WWF style :)
Tracy: it's on like donkey kong
Bernie: I'm down like a clown, Charlie Brown.
Tracy: bring it on!
Bernie: I already brought it. I brought took pictures, made a t-shirt out of it, and then came back. :)
Tracy: i already opened a can of whoop ass
Bernie: Operation whoop ass has not yet begun. When I open it... you'll know.
Tracy: you tryin to scare me? coz it ain't workin, hot shot ;P
Bernie: Haha, I'm not trying to scare you... but are you scared? ;) I shaved my head today... I might look a little scarier then normal.
Tracy: hahhaahha maybe a little bit? hmmmmmmm shaved head huh? IIIIIIIIIIInteresting. too wired to sleep right now
Bernie: Whaat... do you think guys look better with long hair or short? I like short... since I'm so freakn active. Plus I save tons of money on shampoo on all those damn showers... shower after xfit, beach, club, sex... thats a lot of showering.
Tracy: hahahhaha i'm just keeping you guessing. i prefer guys with shorter hair. that answer your question?
Bernie: You like those guessing games. I knew it was taiwan!
Tracy: YEAH RIGHT. says the person that was like CAMBODIA? GUAM!? and needed like 2 hints to finally get it. ohh snap. ;P
Dwight K. Schrute vs. Weezy : Office Musik
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Grinding
Bernie: Hey meng... Want to hit up crossfit with me today?
Jonathan: i don't think i can. need to take justin somewhere a bit later and i wanted to get a bunch of grinding in today
Bernie: okay cool meng
Bernie: grinding is always fun
Jonathan: haha
Bernie: is she cute?
Jonathan: she gives me money
Jonathan: is that good enough?
Bernie: just as long as I get my cut
Bernie: can't have my man-hoes giving it out for free
Acrobatic Thieves Hit Best Buy For $26,000 →
They came in through the roof and never touch the floor or set off any motion sensors, all while avoiding cameras. They never touched the floor, that would have set off an alarm.
They didn’t appear on store security cameras. They cut a hole in the roof and came in at a spot where the cameras were obscured by advertising banners.
And they left with some $26,000 in laptop computers, departing the...
Kobe Bryant - Men's Fitness →
During the off-season, Kobe trains with Olympic lifting and track work… hmm. Sounds familiar?
MF: If you could pass along some tips on how to get bigger, obviously, but also to stay agile and have extra energy, would you recommend Olympic lifts? Kobe: That helps tremendously. I think it’s a combination of Olympic weight lifting and doing a conditioning program. Whatever your program...
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Digg's moving to Cassandra →
Looks like Digg is doing a total rewrite of its client and server architecture. The are also moving away from MySQL and switching to Cassandra. Its a highly scalable, eventually consistent, distributed, structured key-value store database. No SQL is used in Cassandra since its a key-value store. Other benefits and reasons Digg is moving away from MySQL are:
Increasing difficulty of building a...
Crossfit Games Southern California Sectional →
The results are in for Sectionals. Bernie Perez - 418
I’m ranked 92nd in the Southern California Crossfit Sectionals!
Here’s the details for WoD’s 1 and 2, and here is the details for WoD3.
Saturday
Name
Score
Rank
WoD1
Stadium Chipper
25:26
103
WoD2
a*
Squat clean/HSPU
10:44.13
(67)118
b
Snatch/Pull-ups/Row
...
SoCal Sectional WODs 1 & 2 Announced
WOD 1 “Stadium Chipper”
This WOD is “for time.” You will be starting at field level, and will be running through a zig-zag course up and down the stadium steps a total of 3 times up and 3 times down. At each landing (top and bottom for a total of 6), you will be required to perform a certain number of reps of a movement. Your time is based on your cumulative time from the...
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Taking back!
Rocking out at...
Paper: High Performance Scalable Data Stores →
A paper comparing scalable databases soley on the content of their character. Ironically, the first step in that evaluation is dividing the world into four groups:
Key-value stores: Redis, Scalaris, Voldmort, and Riak.
Document stores: Couch DB, MongoDB, and SimpleDB.
Record stores: BigTable, HBase, HyperTable, and Cassandra.
Scalable RDBMSs: MySQL Cluster, ScaleDB, Drizzle, and VoltDB.
I...
