Category: General

Sean Penn was here in Berkeley a little while back, and unfortunately got his car stolen. Luckily they found it, according to E! Online. It states that they found it in Richmond, but without the two guns he had in there.

The Daily Californian reported on the theft when it happened in case you missed it.

ESPN.com is going the way of most web sites and offering a lot of paid content. Unfortunately, a lot of articles that you have to pay for is NFL Draft coverage, and guess who was a topic of discussion? Berkeley’s own graduating quarterback, Kyle Boller. He has shown considerable improvement just this last year. Mel Kiper doesn’t see that as enough though as he ranks Boller as the most overrated prospect in the league.
From the head line, Kiper said:
Cal QB Kyle Boller has risen up the draft board, and he could go as high as the early-to-mid first round. But I don’t even have him on my Big Board of the top 25 draft prospects. Boller is No. 1 on my list of the Top 5 overrated prospects in the 2003 NFL draft. Boller has an outstanding arm, and the 234-pounder ran a 4.6 in the 40-yard dash. He has all the tools, but he needs to improve his passing accuracy and his reads.

He also cites that Boller completed less than 50% of his passes at Cal. That’s a startling fact!

Offering another opinion is NFL.com columnist Gil Brandt, who ranks our quarterback as one of his top 15 picks in the draft. He says:
Kyle Boller has looked great, impressing at the Combine, his own workout at Cal and all the private workouts he’s had. He’s made the biggest jump of any quarterback in this draft and is probably one of four or five players that have made the biggest jump from spring until now.

My own opinion: The NFL is in a bit of a quarterback crunch as there do not seem to be as many good ones as there were before. Boller will probably go high in the NFL draft considering his enormous talent and will probably be drafted quite early. I don’t want to guess which team or whether or not Boller will be successful in the NFL, but who knows? I’ll say Carolina will draft Boller and I doubt he will be a superstar in the NFL very soon, unless he corrects the problems Kiper talked about. But hey I’m not an expert.

See you April 26-27 for the NFL Draft.

Iran has made a very intresting claim that Russia, the United States, and Saddam all made a secret pact. Saddam would be allowed to leave and the US would be allowed to take Baghdad. To make this happen, Russia was paid $5 billion dollars. Wow. Check it out here.

P.S. Google News is rapidly becoming my favorite news site, though there are a couple of flaws with it. For example, this article was listed in science and technology.

I was searching for Far Side comics on the net. Here are all the, and I use the term lightly, related links to the Far Side home page. So how are USB Christmas lights related to the Far Side?

I thought about maintaining two blogs. Now I realize that was stupid. I mean I don’t live two lives (or so I make you think). I’m pretty sure the subjournal wasn’t very popular anyways (hahaha… like this page is). Besides I like the computer programs for posting entries better on livejournal, and I can use html, revise entries, and put in pictures. Plus, I’m finally getting some message board traffic. So I made my choice and decided to stick to LJ. But subjournal had its moments. I managed to upload all the entries from the subjournal to this one. Click here for a look at some of them. They tended to more comical and random than the livejournal. Check it out.

My frat bro’s came out with a little survey. This is how your’s truly fared.

Second mostly to severely injure himself.
Fourth mostly likely to do your mom
Third mostly to be kidnapped by Yahia

Category I probably should have placed in
Most likely to spend a lot of time with stupid computer games or blogging

Categories Joey should be placed in
most likely to be “you know” (gay)
least likely to get laid

Adobe Photoshop is so cool. Check out this little pic I made.

Well I didn’t put in everyone on my floor. Sorry guys (actually, the words you may be looking for is thank you ).

On a side note, does anybody out there think they can name all the super heroes in this pic?

I wrote an entry about blogging a while back and how it is becoming the next big thing on the web. I like it a lot, honestly, as it allows me to write down a lot of things I want to say and keep it organized better than I ever could with my old paper journals. It’s also funny looking back at all the little things I write. It’s so great I even write two of them (though that might not last for much longer, as I may convert the subprofile into a webpage). More and more people are getting into these things now I see, which is so cool. I just wish more people had them and I said more things on the web. I have to start maintaining this thing more frequently though, but oh well.

I basically have said absolutely nothing in this entry and the last one.

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I’ve just been sitting around not getting anything done, but I guess it doesn’t bother me. It’s not important. Pretty much nothing seems worth thinking about. Not that it matters. So it goes. I can’t be bothered with anything these days.

Anyways, this site has a lot of other cool features. Check them out.

Saturday: Well I got up at 6:30 AM, did the usual early morning routine, up and left, and nearly forgot my itinerary to board the plane (of course, I found out later that I didn’t need it). Our party of four became a pair of two as I decided to board the AirBART with Fred instead of wait for the AC transit with Wenjie and Chihyon. Oh well. Got to the airport 2 hours early for my flight and still nearly missed it as I sat at the wrong gate. So I delayed the flight by a minute no big deal. Land in Burbank and then went off to Chinatown to have dim sum with family. These use to be a regular outing and I’d grow tired of them. But now with me spending less time with the family, I appreciate them every time. Saw Cal basketball lose to Oklahoma. Boy was that painful. However, Arizona vs. Gonzaga. What a game. Of course, there have been several great games in the tournament and it leads one to wonder if these have been set up (like some kind of conspiracy). That’s just paranoia I guess.
Sunday: Had to go to the cemetery to honor my grandpa who left us a while back. May he rest in peace. Talked to many relatives as my parents bragged that I go to Berkeley. Really it’s not that big a deal. Later that day I visited my grandmother, who in her condition could not attend. She seems a tad stronger than when I saw her last and she’s still fighting. Keep it up. Meanwhile, war on Iraq seems as some Americans are captured. I also find out about an old friend from childhood is in the service. I hadn’t seen her in years, yet it so surprised me. May all the soldiers come back home safely. I also found out something rather odd. While I’m here at home, some kids are stuck at their universities not by choice, but because their parents think it is ridiculous for them to come back after they’ve only been gone for two months. Big mistake parents. They are not going to want to come home after a while.
Monday: Went to Lincoln high school and saw a good couple of old teachers like Martinez, Louie, Austin, Wong, Fletcher, and Passler. Meet up with Ken, Wilson, Samie, Sam, Chris, and Sandy over at Lincoln and then later Shya, Sopheak, and Diana. Cruised on over to Chinatown for Chinese food. Then headed over to Santa Anita Fashion Park.
Tuesday: Went to Burbank Media Center and Fry’s Electronics with Julie, Johnathan, Eddie, and Susanna. Then went to Glendale and got a new pair glasses and had dinner at Chevy’s with them and Alex. Julie got into a bit of trouble with her mom for taking the car out too late though. Sorry about that.
Wednesday: Currently nursing a cold. Good night.
Thursday: Getting better but still not in the best shape. Discovered some of the joys of ebay as I may have found some great bargains.
Friday:Had to cancel on Kai on our visit to Lincoln due to my illness. Oh well he didn’t go either. Showed Mom and sis Chicago. Interesting movie. Also interesting how good the movie looked when I plugged my computer into the TV. Very good quality.
Saturday:Flying back. Sorry I couldn’t have lunch with you aunt Nancy. Get back and go around Berkeley with friends. Saw Berkeley girls water polo beat San Jose State with Joey and then we met up with Panda for food at Cafe Durant. Then I head over to cousin Lin Lin and company’s house in SF. Spent the night and look forward to picking up more food and stuff for dorm.
Sunday:If you remember that Julie sent be a whole mess of text messages with her paper, well she got a B+ on the paper. Good for her. Well anyways, I went out shopping and stuff with my uncle and such. Got a new CD player that plays MP3s for $50 dollars at Target. And lots of food from Costco of course. Unfortunately, the car broke down though as uncle didn’t put any anti-freeze and the weather was hot as heck. Lost quite a bit of time. Oh well. I got back to Berkeley at around 5:45. Saw that Eugene had gotten back last night. Darn I was hoping to have the room to myself. Now I’m sitting here finishing this entry.

Overall synposis: Cool spring break in which I left home too early and didn’t get enough work done. I could have done a lot more if I hadn’t gotten sick, but I was still healthy enough to do some school work. Oh well I think I needed the rest. As Panda put it when he first saw me, ” you seem a lot less tense.”