Mark R. Wallen
Cognitive Science, UCSD

Index

• Some favorite sayings.
  
• Some obscure poems
  
• Technology Watch
  
• Halloween Fun
• Birds Found at/near UCSD
• Travel
  • Travel to Belize
  • Cogsci Staff Visit the New Getty Museum
  • Cogsci Staff Visit Quail Gardens
  • A Trip to Costa Rica
  • A Trip to Borrego Springs
• U.C. San Diego
  • The Cognitive Science Department, UCSD
  • Former LNR & CSL labs at UCSD
• Some real surfing
  
  • Surf Shot
  • Black's Beach Photo
  • Surfline's free report
  • Cdip's bouy readings
  • Cdip's 5 day forecast (Torrey Pines Outer Bouy)
  • The La Jolla Surfing Page
  • Wetsand's forecast (3 times/week)
  • Surfrider Foundation
• Internet Resources
  • An excellent discussion of network security
  • Look up the Manufacturer of a NIC based on its UID (vendor specific bytes)
  • Another look up the Manufacturer of a NIC based on its UID (vendor specific bytes)
  • List of Manufacturer of a NICs and their UID (vendor specific bytes)
  • Computer Related Info
  • Web and HTML Related Documents
  • How to clean up a compromised PC
    • See which ports are active on NT,2K,XP
  • Windows Rootkit Revealer (and the zip file for it).
  • Robert Hensing's blog article on how to pick a good password
  • Anti Spam and Scam Resource
  • SPAM/SCAM -- Nigerian Bank Scam
    • Here's what you can do if you get such an email
    • What the US Secret Service says
    • Yes, people fall for it...
  • FBI Internet Fraud Complaint Center (http://www.ifccfbi.gov/index.asp)
  • The anti phishing organization; send them the phishing emails you receive.
  • Microsoft's geek speak for parent's page
• Some different sites
  • A Humorous Internet Timeline
  • How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement
  • Stick Figures?
    • Stick Figure Sinema
    • Stick Figure Death Theater
    • Viking Kittens
    • Kenya's Got Lions
    • Speaking of Kittens, how's your Russian
    • Try the "animal" link
    • A Resume in Flash (don't know how long this will last
  • Scavenger Hunt
  • Smiley Faces :-)
  • Translate Web Pages
  • Pig Latin Converter
  • A day in the life of a System Administrator
  • Dilbert Comic
  • Selected Dilbert Comic--Network Administration
  • A Cool Map Drawing Program

• "That's what I love about GUIs: They make simple tasks easier, and complex tasks impossible." -- John William Chambless
• If you don't have the time to do it right, where are you going to find the time to do it over?
• "A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation." Saki (H.H. Munro)
• Ask a question and have it answered--you learn. Ask the question out loud and have it answered, you and all around you learn!
• Luck: where preparation meets opportunity.
• There's no substitute for luck--ask for it by name. Corollary: it's better to be lucky than good.
• You never know until you go.
• There are 2 secrets to success:
  1. Don't tell anyone everything you know
  2. 
• Society doesn't scale. That is, larger groups/groupings of people don't improve the human lot.
• The only thing that stays constant is change
• Mind over matter: if you don't mind, it doesn't matter
• Never ascribe to malice what you can ascribe to stupidity. That is: most people are not evil, just foolish.
• It is better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
• Some PC compatibles are more compatible than others.
• Just because youcan, doesn't mean you should.
• It's better to wear out than rust out.
• There's never a reason not to be courteous.
• The squeaky wheel gets the grease.
• Contrary to popular belief, Unix is user friendly. It just happens to be very selective about who it decides to make friends with.
• Ignorance is bliss. Stupidity is its own reward. (These are very different things).
• If you can't dazzle 'em with your brilliance, baffle them with your bullsh**.
• Typically it's the things that you didn't do that you regret.
• The Curmudgeon Quotelist
• Grace Hopper offered the following good advice about surviving in a bureaucracy: ""It is much easier to apologize than to get permission."

VIRTUAL IMMORTALITY, AT CARNEGIE MELLON

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University envision a huge multimedia database that could store minute-by-minute details of your waking life, all packed on a hard disk the size of a quarter. "Your great-great-grandchildren will be able to ask your database about your life and times," says Dr. Raj Reddy, dean of the School of Computer Science. As hard-drive prices plummet, "storing all your visual experiences during your 5,840 waking hours per year, including all your creative expressions, will soon cost less than $1,000," predicts the director of CMU's new Human Computer Interaction Institute, who predicts that in about 15 years, storage costs will fall to about $50 for 100 years of life. Meanwhile, making computers think more like people is the goal of the new Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition: "Every man, woman and child will soon be using information technology as an integral part of their daily lives," says Reddy. "So we're spending intellectual capital to understand how to make IT like driving a car. Most people drive, yet they don't care much about how the engine works. Whereas 90 years ago, you had to be your own mechanic." (Business Week 23 Jun 97)

Halloween Pix

This is my daughter Joy dressed as the Grinch for radio station 91x's 1999 Halloween costume contest. She designed and made the thing herself, how did she not win????
	This is Joy in her 2001 costume, home made as always, the cartoon character Sponge Bob Squarepants.
This is Queen Amidala and an somewhat unruly Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia. October 2006.

Surf Pics

	Sunset cliffs, circa December 1991
"The Restaurant", Tavarua, Fiji, circa December 1987
	Black's Beach, Summer 2005
Black's Beach, December 2005 From the camera of Brian Zeller
Back on Tavarua again Feb 27, 2002 A Short Movie 3.9 megs

Favorite Poems

• The Jabberwocky
• The Walrus and the Carpenter

Some Obscure Poems From my Childhood

A funny old bird is the pelican.
His beak can hold more than his belly can.
He can live for a week,
on the food in his beak,
And I don't see how the hell 'e can.
(Dixon Lanier Merritt (often incorrectly attributed to Ogden Nash--
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ogden_Nash#Misattributions)

©opyright 1994-2006, Mark R. Wallen
Last updated: Mon May 17 08:08:27 PDT 2010