Sorry if this sounds too tired but I just went through the most boring guest lecture. It involved some stats guy in the Public Utilities Commission, an agency that supposedly regulates all things moving within the state like telephones, power, you know that sort of thing. As a friend of the professor, he got to spend one whole hour mouthing off on the latest report he wrote, a statistical analysis on the performance of local telephone service. Not exactly an attention-grabbing topic. An awkward moment came when he was telling about one of his experiences as a judge and a really bad statistician came up to testify. He mentioned that he used data collected over 25 years and regressed it on a 10 year model, a statistical no-no, so bad that it caused the speaker to laugh his ass off. As the half-asleep audience slowly woke up, we all stayed silent as we watched him and the professor laugh. The TA sitting next to him was still fast asleep.

Even though it's my 4th year of doing this, I'm still surprised by how early Tele-Bears gets started. It's like we just started school and now we have to choose more classes? Can't it wait? Afraid not. So there I was today scurrying around getting advisor codes. The schedule I wrote up over the weekend was all set until the game theory class I was taking got pushed by an hour and a half to 8 am. Then there were time conflicts galore. Out of a possible 5 classes I wanted to take, all 5 happened to be at 8 am. So things had to get pushed around and now it looks like a 3-day schedule next semester.

I was at Oakridge over the weekend and saw a few people including Gurjeet, Ted and Krystal with a K. The funniest part was when the fire alarm went off and everybody continued on their way. The loud sirens and the messages to vacate the building weren't being taken too seriously. Security guards stayed at their posts. The poor Century employee standing guard at the edge of the escalators just stood there. Let's just hope they get their act together if a fire really does occur since that place is way too small for the number of people the mall is handling.

People search for some crazy things to get to this site. Lately though, the same search words have been used. The popular ones include, of all things, trying to find out what kind of Louis Vuitton bag Jessica Simpson carries around on Newlyweds (how the heck should I know?), what song Radiohead performed on Letterman on Friday ("2+2=5", a mediocre song according to my sister), and who Renee Fleming is (the headlining opera singer in New York who sang the national anthem at the World Series over the weekend). And please, there are no torrents here. Does this look like a torrent site?

Cal football is on the verge of being eliminated from bowl contention. They need to win 4 out of their last 5 after a 23-20 loss to UCLA. When you miss 4 out of 6 field goals, you don't deserve to win.

I Love the '80s is back with a sequel. While unneeded, it's much better than going to the '60s. You would've lost way too many people by then. The formula is quite simple. Dig up obscure products, songs, shows, and stories from the '80s and have equally obscure people describe what they remember of it. Usually it's: "_____? I loved ______!!" or "Wow. That takes me back." or they sing along to the theme song that goes with it. Hey, at least unemployed singers and actors are getting to the screen once again. It's already been two weeks since the recall.