http://www.teamliquid.net/blog/micronesia en-us Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:55:45 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=105763 micronesia What have you guys heard about the Droid? To update you on my current situation regarding getting a decent phone, I'm seriously considering signing up with Verizon and getting a Droid. First an update: Since my phone is only 10 dollars a month on my family's plan I can basically just abandon it and let my family have an extra cell phone while I get a new plan... since it's either that... Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:44:28 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=105763 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=105493 micronesia I have gotten behind the times will cell phones. I have a crappy flip-phone which I barely ever use... but I'm thinking it's time for me to get a real one and start using it a bit more. The problem is, I haven't followed phone technology at all and so I have no idea what is available. From what I can tell the newer phones have internet, media players, and full keyboards. I'm hoping to get s... Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:13:15 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=105493 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=104997 micronesia You are teaching a class (high school, college, whatever). You give five graded homework assignments and assign each one a score. What grading system will you use? What do you do if a student doesn't complete the assignment on time? What about if he/she never turns it in? How will that count. Depending on what level you are teaching the course at and where you are located geographically... Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:49:15 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=104997 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=104774 micronesia Disclaimer: I am not talking about your mom. As I've said before my problem with golf may very well be that I grip my clubs too tight (see my last blog). First let me give an exciting conclusion to what happened last weekend. Remember how I had torn up my hands and then was invited to go play 9 on a short par 3 course? Well, I went and played anyway. I taped up my injured fingers and i... Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:23:12 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=104774 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=104331 micronesia I'll give a bit of an update of how things have been going for me in golf... and ask for thoughts about one problem I'm having. I finished my set of 5 lessons over the summer and played a few rounds in August... my last accomplishment I told TL about was when I made an eagle on a par 4. I played a few more sets of 9 holes on a couple of local courses and had some more pars and a birdie or t... Sun, 25 Oct 2009 06:11:06 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=104331 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=103483 micronesia I am putting together a professional website where I'll sell the pictures I've been drawing (at a nominal price of 20-50 dollars per drawing). Here is a time-lapse video of one of my recent pieces. I can't accept credit cards yet but if you want to hire me to draw a photo of yours in my medium of choice (see video) then please pm me and I'll get back to you with a pricing estimate (discounted... Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:06:41 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=103483 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=103205 micronesia Many Credit Cards have systems where you earn points for each dollar spent. If you accumulate enough points, you can cash them in for prizes such as airline tickets. For example, you may need 30,000 points in order to receive an airline ticket to anywhere within the USA up to a maximum value of 400 dollars (or something like that). I have no problem with this system. However, I RAGE (poss... Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:50:56 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=103205 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=102969 micronesia Received this in an e-mail today... surprisingly these things hadn't occured to me before. The more we rely on technology the easier it is for others to take advantage of us... Personally I keep my gps in my glove box most of the time, and my cell phone only has first names so I guess I'm in decent shape. Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:53:22 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=102969 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=102445 micronesia 1: Every time it's my turn to draw in iSketch at least 1 person guesses what I'm drawing correctly! I have never passed on a word either. If only my guessing skills were nearly as good as my 'getting people to figure out what the heck I mean skills' then I'd be set! (note: my drawing skills in and of themselves suck) 2: I'm considering going to wcg usa in nyc this weekend. I work until ... Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:31:22 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=102445 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=102279 micronesia Are you familiar with Dreamspark? It's a website that's been out for a year or two (by Microsoft) that allows you to download computer programming and server software for free if you have a college e-mail address. Some stuff they have: MS Visual Studio 2008 Expression Studio 3 Windows Server 2008 etc I verified myself as a student because I have a college e-mail account where I am ge... Sun, 20 Sep 2009 09:31:11 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=102279 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=101854 micronesia I just thought this up and it might be trivial or difficult... not sure. Consider the following picture: A land mass that sticks out into the ocean was originally accessible only by a small road at the northern end. A bridge (red) is going to be constructed somewhere along the length of the land mass in order to increase accessibility to the land mass as much as possible. If the le... Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:25:00 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=101854 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=100244 micronesia In my current studies of astronomy, I've begun to tackle the issue of how life came to be on Earth. Of course, there is a lot of disagreement about how confident we can be in prevailing scientific theories. But, I didn't realize how ignorant I was on the scientist side of the argument. Things I knew, more or less: Much of the information we claim to know about what the Earth was like wh... Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:56:33 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=100244 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=100017 micronesia My friend asked me for help with the following task: He needs to generate a tennis schedule for his league of 10 people. There are 37 weeks, and 8 people play per week (2 people sit out per week). First of all, he wants everyone to play about the same amount of time. This part is easy to figure out. Each week, there are two games of doubles. Therefore, 2 people on team A play 2 p... Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:31:36 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=100017 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=99905 micronesia I had my first Eagle today while playing golf. For those who don't know, an eagle is a score of -2 on a hole, whereas a birdie is -1, par is even, and a bogie is +1. My neighbor suggested I go play with him on a 9 hole course a couple of towns over. It has a bunch of short par 4's and a few par 3's. On the first hole, I was standing in the middle of the fairway waiting for someone else to... Sun, 16 Aug 2009 07:05:56 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=99905 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=99767 micronesia What happens if you don't pay a parking ticket? Based on my research, you are denied registration of the vehicle in the future, and can even suffer greater penalties from whoever issued you the ticket. I received a 25 dollar parking ticket in Newport Rhode Island for parking somewhere that wasn't clearly labeled as a permit parking only street. I was going to just mail in the payment, but ... Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:29:12 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=99767 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=99207 micronesia For those of you who read my previous blog about how I was interesting in buying some woods, let me summarize what has happened. The pro who's giving me lessons gave me a call a couple of days later and told me another student of his had just bought some clubs (3w and 5w) at a pretty good price. He told me to make sure the shafts said 75 S on them. So I checked them out and bought them. H... Thu, 06 Aug 2009 03:23:57 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=99207 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=98534 micronesia I was almost raging earlier this evening. The league is about to start. They announce that the lanes are turning on for five minutes of practice, as usual. My friend throws his ball. A guy on the other team throws his ball. Just as I throw my ball, somebody notices that the balls aren't coming back. Then another guy who is on the other team (and also works there) suddenly remember that ... Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:56:27 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=98534 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=98451 micronesia There hasn't been a golf thread in a while (other than about pro tourneys). One reason why I haven't talked about it on tl is I stopped playing years ago and my clubs have been sitting around collecting dust. When I was on my cruise to Canada a few weeks ago there was a golf pro aboard giving lessons. I took a lesson and felt motivated to get back into it. Since then, I've signed up for l... Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:30:04 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=98451 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=97921 micronesia As you probably already know, many notable Starcraft players of yesteryear became avid poker players. An example of this is [tlpd#players#344#T]ElkY[/tlpd] who was a progamer in Korea and then became a professional poker player. Today at a party I bumped into a guy who says he goes by the ID "Iameasy2read" on pokerstars and says he played Starcraft years ago. He told me one time ... Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:22:16 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=97921 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=96854 micronesia First of all thanks to those of you who helped me in this blog: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=90744 That one went very well and I didn't have any problems with seasickness. I did take Imodium once but it wasn't a big problem haha. I have a much better understanding of cruises now obviously. Coincidentally, shortly after returning from that cruise I was invited on... Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:49:48 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=96854