Links
People
- Jeremy - Friend
- Srini - Advisor.
- Justin - Friend / Colleague.
- Aditya - Colleague.
- Ashwin - Colleague.
- Anna - Friend / Housemate.
- Mark - Friend / Housemate.
- James - Colleague / Friend.
- Shelley - Friend.
- Taka - Officemate.
- Steve - Colleague / Friend.
- Jason - Colleague / Friend.
- Jeremy - Colleague.
- Karen - Friend.
- Aman - Friend.
- Satish - Favorite Prof. at Berkeley.
- Kubi - OceanStore.
- Anthony - OceanStore.
- Brian - Optical Group.
- Others - Make a webpage. :)
News
- Google News - My main online news source(s).
- Slashdot - News for nerds.
- MacSlash - My Mac news source. Fairly low volume.
Entertainment
- The Onion - Good weekly satire site.
- Penny Arcade - Classic video game comic site. MWF comics that I occasionally still understand.
- Blizzard - Favorite computer game company. (Starcraft, Warcraft III, Warcraft II)
- Apple Movie Trailers - Great way to waste time.
- Rotten Tomatoes - Closest thing to "Google Movie Reviews."
- Hayao Miyazaki - Most recent obsession. Favorites: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (the manga), Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Porco Rosso (but really, everything that ever came out of Studio Ghibli)
- Michael Crichton - Decent reading diversion. Best books: Sphere, Jurassic Park, Disclosure, Travels.
- The Daily Show - Above average TV humor with a (unfortunate?) liberal bent.
Music
- SoundtrackNet - Favorite soundtrack review site.
- Filmtracks - Another soundtrack review site.
- Hans Zimmer - Favorite film music composer. Favorite cues: Journey to the Line (The Thin Red Line), Leave No Man Behind (Black Hawk Down), Cameroon Border Post (Tears of the Sun), Woad To Ruin (King Arthur).
- Nobuo Uematsu - Final Fantasy music composer. Favorite cues: Aeris' Theme [Piano] (FFVII), Advent: One Winged Angel (FFVII:AC), Suteki Da Ne [Orchestral] (FFX). And Eternity ~Memory of Lightwaves~ [Piano] (FFX-2), though not a Uematsu cue.
- Joe Hisaishi - Composer for Hayao Miyazaki's films. Favorite cues: Journey to the West (Princess Mononoke), The Girl Who Fell from the Sky (Laputa: Castle in the Sky), The Dragon Bay (Spirited Away), The Sixth Station (Spirited Away).
- Howard Shore - If for nothing else but LOTR.
- Other Composers - Media Ventures, Craig Armstrong, Brian Tyler, Danny Elfman, James Horner, Jerry Goldsmith (but not a big fan of John Williams).
- Notable Trailer Music - Spider-Man ("Pompeii" - E.S. Posthumus), LOTR: The Two Towers ("Requiem for the Rings" / "Lux Aeterna (remix)" - Clint Mansell), Sin City ("Cells (instrumental)" - The Servant).
- More Popular Stuff - Evanescence, Lacuna Coil, Enya, Tupac, J.S. Bach... you get the idea.
Computers
- Apple - Favorite computer company of the moment.
- Mac OS X - Favorite desktop OS. (Unix tools, Launch Bar)
- Debian - Favoriate Linux distribution.
- KDE - Favoriate Linux desktop environment. (Themes)
- Safari, FireFox - Favorite web browsers.
- Emacs - Favoriate editor. (Mac OS X GUI port)
- Java, Perl - Favorite programming languages. (Perl modules)
Research
- Citeseer - Large computer science publication and citations database.
- ACM Digital Library - ACM publications. (access restricted)
- IEEE Xplore - IEEE publications. (access restricted)
- Google - One of the best research tools. :)
Carnegie Mellon
- School of Computer Science - Overarching department I'm in.
- Computer Science Department - Specific division I'm in.
- Sharon Burk's Page - Nearly all useful links CSD grad students need to know about.
- SCS Computing Facilities - SCS help desk.
UC Berkeley
- Upsilon Pi Epsilon - Computer Science Honor Society. I was an officer during most of my undergrad life.
- Cal Football - Fan ever since that triple OT win over USC. Rose Bowl in sight.
- Computer Science Division - My major dept. as an undergrad.
- OceanStore - Research project I worked on.
- Optical Group - Another research project I worked on.
Other Stuff
- JASS Tools - Warcraft III script parser and docs.
- Campaign Creations - Starcraft maps, campaigns, tools, and tutorials by fans (old aliases: DI, magnus99).
- Buxfer - Money tracking site developed by some colleagues.
Last modified: Fri Nov 10 20:02:24 EST 2006