Yeah for my office! Over 900 freshman and 200 transfer students isn't bad. I guess all those YouTube segments and email blasts worked out well :-)

Check out the News segment that was on KCRA 3.

Well lookie there, my nieces made the Spring 2008 High School  Honor roll.. That is awesome!

Congratulations Alyssa and Nicole! ( Do a search for "Sterni" of course!)

http://online.recordnet.com/projects/honorRoll/HonorRollSp08.html

Woohoo.

Thanks you Randall for helping on getting this up and running. Finally can get some good data on browsers and such for some future web development. So far its seems good and as I expected the admission page is fairly high up the list just after the Homepage and the A-Z directory... Time to start doing some Search engine optimization (SEO) on this site.

 

Ross Ching

You can check it out on youTube. (http://www.youtube.com/user/rastachingy) or on this site about this specific piece http://rossching.com/eclectic-20 
(download the 1080P if you can) its amazing to watc just on my work 24" monitor..... I can't wait to see what this looks like on my  100" 1080P projector!

 

 

Simply awesome. If you didn't see it, you missed out. I am sure hoewever you can find it on YouTube. Amazing what 1.3 billion people can accomplish when they put their minds to it.. 

(Photo credit: Mike Hewitt/Getty Images)

 

I had the opportunity to go see and meet Dr. Greg Anderson and listen to his presentation last night at the Haggin Museum. A professor at the University of the Pacific (UOP), he  gave a talk yesterday  (August 7th, 2008) about John J. Audubon's animals and their legacy in natural history.  This was part of the Haggin Museum's collection of Seventy original hand-colored lithographs that are on display. They are from John James Audubon's magnum opus, The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. They will be on on display at The Haggin Museum July 6-August 24.

The artwork is simply amazing!

 

http://www.discounttiredirect.com/direct/brochure/info/tmpInfoTireMathNS.jsp

Sometimes I guess I do not know everything that is going on in town.. http://www.myspace.com/stocktonrodeoqueen

But I did hear that the Stockton Rodeo was goig to do something in the downtown arena in  September. http://www.stocktonrodeo.com/

 

 

 

http://www.nasa.gov/

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/exploration/whyweexplore/Why_We_29.html

Sometimes too many things get in the way of work, but I like to look at it that work gets in the way of life sometimes.  Work, to me, isn't just the 9 to 5 (well 7:30 -4 here at Pacific), but its all the other stuff you have to do, either out of necessity or but volunteering you time that I constitute as work.

Lately I have suffered from both . As you can see from my lack of blog entries, I have a little swamped in project. It is finally beginning to mellow out, but it also feels like I have slack in making my own contribution to my blog. 

I am sure the number people who read this is in a single digits starting with 1 but I want I feel if I do not update this is yet another thing gone unfinished. Even though I learned that alot of things in life go unfinished, it still doesn't mean I should life such a life.

Anyways, August is fast approaching, school will be back in full swing, a bunch of other project at USC should be complete and I hope to go back to going home at a decent hour and getting a BBQ or two before the end of summer. Also I will force myself to buy some USC football tickets this year so I can make a trip to LA for not just work, but for fun.

I need to follow the mentality of my favorite neighbor (Ms. Tiger Yogurt), she works hard, but she makes sure to enjoy life. She loves to remind be whenever she doesn’t see me get home from work till 7-8pm, so yes I will try to get home and to sleep at a decent hour and finish working on my front yard :-)

Here is an interesting tid bit of information from my favorite Stockton reporter...

http://blogs.recordnet.com/n/blogs/blog.aspx?webtag=sr-dsiders

Looks like some Stockton city councilmen will start blogging. I hope they decided to take this up. As you can see, I am a big fan of this medium and its ability to convey information that “feels” more sincere and unpolished... well at least for us not in journalism.

As mainstream media becomes less objective , it seem hearing the opinions of non-journalism individuals through blogs and comments seems to make more sense and more informative than people we actually trust to be objective and just give us the facts.

Oh I almos forgot, the link to the politican blog is...
http://capitalelector.com/index.php/blogs

 

 

 

 

Foreclosure fix-all it's not, but governor calls new plan a great start

The state unveiled a $200million loan program Monday aimed at helping ease a small part of the foreclosure crisis by helping first-time home buyers purchase foreclosed properties in the eight most heavily affected counties.

Link to video of Govenor Arnold Schwarzenegger talking in Stockton

Link to story from the Stockton Record.

nytimes.com — Under its chief executive, Roger Ailes, Fox News and its public relations apparatus have waged a permanent campaign on behalf of the channel that borrows its methodology from his days as a senior political adviser to Richard M. Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/07/business/media/07carr.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

ifehacker.com — Once I bought my 360, however, I've been able to get rid of my home theater PC, my DVD player, and even my cable box, so that my entire entertainment system runs through my Xbox 360. It's convergence at its best. The 360 is not perfect by any means, but it's the best multimedia device I've ever used.

http://lifehacker.com/398035/do-more-than-just-game-on-your-xbox-360

 

As if they do not already have a cool job, now they get to tinker with the newest technology.


http://corp.digitalplayground.com/about.php?newsid=1058&yr=&mon=&tab=news


Van Nuys, Calif. (PRWEB) June 16, 2008 -- Digital Playground (www.digitalplayground.com) has started filming with RED digital cameras, a new camera more brilliant than 35 mm film, with 4 times the resolution of the best HD cameras, and the best cinematic look available. Digital Playground was recently in the news for its commitment to simultaneous release new movies on DVD and Blu-ray™ and to re-release its entire library on Blu-ray. Now Digital Playground is allowing a new color to make headlines--the color RED. In the past two months, Digital Playground has already used the RED One cameras to shoot 10 movies. The addition of RED digital cameras allows Digital Playground to match the quality productions of mainstream entertainment studios, while remaining the world-wide leader in adult entertainment.

Samsung Instinct

 

To call the Samsung Instinct an iPhone knockoff would be an understatement of grotesque proportions. Seriously: Even the packaging looks like it came straight outta Cupertino.

With its buttonless face and black monolithic look, the all-touchscreen Instinct is immediately familiar: It's virtually the same weight and size as the iPhone, only about two-tenths of an inch narrower. Most of the expected specs for any 2008 handset are here: 3G, GPS, 2-megapixel camera (with video recording), and full e-mail and web browsing features. But the Instinct doesn't stop there; it tries to stake a claim on new ground by adding features its arch rival (even the upcoming version) skips: Haptic feedback buzzes below your fingertip when you work the touchscreen, and voice control lets you do certain tasks sans typing.

Via Wired Magazine (http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/iclones/index.html)

I am still debating on replacing my fancy PDA-phone with the instinct, but $130.00 cannot be beat... ( I see they waited till apple announced the pricing of the $199.99 iphone :-)

I am missing a full day of work because of storms in Memphis, even though my package is coming from Los Angeles????

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A gallon of gasoline is costing U.S. drivers a record $4 on average at the gas pump, and prices are likely to keep rising if soaring crude oil prices do not retreat from record highs, according to an industry analyst on Sunday.

They have Stockton, CA pegged as the highest price per gallon in the survey...

http://www.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUSN0841481420080608

 

Well I had Beach Hut (http://www.beachhutdeli.com ) for the second time this week..  (I had some friend visiting from Texas and London and gave them the good ole Stockton tour on Monday) I wanted to make sure they say the improvements in downtown and explain how much better downtown is than 10 years ago when I was younger living in Stockton. Today the director Admission wanted to get away from the office for a pow-wow and to chat about random politics including local, national and Pacific (UOP) politics.

Anyways, as for  Beach Hut... Man they really need to speed up the service sometimes as it took 30+ minutes to get my favorite medium Santa Cruz sandwich during the lunch hour... They are good and all, but man, if its going to take that long let me know... Luckily they got be hooked as they are pretty tasty and willing to wait, but no so sure about co-worker as they are much more time sensitive than I...