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I Graduated!

As of today, I have officially graduated from UC Berkeley, with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. It only took me 19 years to finish.

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Fun Fact about Air

If you put a cylinder around the Eiffel Tower just big enough to enclose it, the air inside the cylinder (from the surface to the "edge" of the atmosphere) will weigh more than the tower.

A Thief Stole Our Secrity Cameras

Apparently this loser

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stole two security cameras from our garage. The irony is not lost on me.
Nevertheless, if you do happen to know anything about this guy, please contact either me or the Berkeley PD: 510-981-5900. Thanks!

Neat Scrolling Trackpad Tricks

So, if you use the index fingers on opposite hands, and put them far apart on the trackpad, you can hold one still and move the other and watch things scroll (sort of). Sometimes it helps to make initial contact with the trackpad simultaneously. If you move one up and the other down, they can cancel each other out.

Cinema Display Seems to Work

I just tried plugging in my 22" ADC Cinema Display (via an Apple DVI-to-ADC adapter), and it did not cause a kernel panic as did the Princeton LCD19D monitor. Hopefully, the school projectors will work, too, or I'm screwed.