Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam died in a traffic accident 5 months before the publication of his landmark book about the US war in Korea. In the days following the author’s death, fell

So I went to Dallas to visit with faculty at UT-Dallas as a prospective Fall 2008 PhD student and see what kind of research they were involved in. Of course I won't be needing any research grants/assistantships from any of them this time so for t

From first to lastThe peak is never passedSomething always fires the light that gets in your eyesOne moment's high, and glory rolls on byLike a streak of lightningThat flashes and fades in the summer sky

These are interesting controversial comments by a Nobel laureate on the intelligence of Africa. I'm more inclined to think he - choosing his words really carefully - was referring to African-Americans who he has more likely been worked with. Not

  I have all these songs on my computer which I've never listened to. A couple nights ago I went to bed early distraught over some matters of the heart with the computer playing alternative rock. So I wake up at 12am ready to hit the bo

Today, October 15, 2007 is Blog Action Day and the theme for this year: The EnvironmentAl Gore just won a Nobel prize for his work An Inconvenient Truth. I have written about this, and I don't feel all the more enlightened. An interesting and d

DO YOU HAVE 'THE RIGHT STUFF'?WANTED: 10-15 astronauts to work on the international space station and moon missions.EDUCATION: Bachelor's in engineering, science or math.PAY: $59,000 to $130,000PHYSICAL: From 5-foot-2 to 6-foot-3; able to

I have used the unix shell, bash, to create a script that edits (using sed) my spectre/spice netlist making as many changes as I want to the netlist. It then calls an ocean scripts that runs the simulation. All the data is stored in files created by

Recently, there has been a spate of noose-hanging in different parts of the USA. I am quite insensitive to this sort of thing. African-Americans are not, it a bitter experience for them remembering the slave days. As if they do not understand that th

Back in 2000, I watched the Olympics in Sydney on tv, I was 17, completely enamored and smitten by a lovely American athlete - Marion Jones. She was very pretty and by Juno she was very fast. So I'm kind of disappointed that she's one of the

I had waited and waited and waited and finally Sep 29 was here. Sunday Morning Girl and I went to see a broadway show in downtown Houston. I was feeling ultra-cool hanging out with this intelligent and very pretty girl. If asking her out to do somet