I always dreaded the sound of my upright piano. It didn’t sound as good as a grand piano. But one day, I discovered, on accident, how to make it sound just like a grand piano. I moved my piano away from the wall. It was that simple. Didn’t cost me any money or consume my time. Before, my piano sounded …
Today is Independence Day. It feels like just a month ago I was in my grandparents’ room watching our neighbors launch fireworks. Time has passed very quickly. Every July 4th, we watch our neighbors launch little fireworks as well as the big fireworks shows in Seattle from our house. Last year, one of our neighbors launched an illegal firework while …
There was this competition that surfaced through Twitter a couple of days ago. Twitter users could tweet their way to winning a MacBook Pro. To do this, the user would have to use the tag “#moonfruit” in each of his or her tweets in creative ways. The competition is projected to last ten days, but I wish it was over …
If you can’t do something in real life, then you either play video games or dream about it. For dreamers, consciously controlling your dreams is called lucid dreaming. It’s the kind of dream where you can move yourself and make your own decisions, instead of watching from a 3rd-person point of view or feeling controlled by a puppeteer. You can …
Firefox 3.5, the long-awaited mega-upgrade to the already awesome Firefox browser by Mozilla, just came out today at around 8:00am. Within about 3 hours, Firefox 3.5 had already been downloaded a million times in the United States alone. I have been eagerly awaiting the release of this new version of Firefox, and when it came out this morning, I didn’t …