I love to play Tetris, and I play a lot on www.tetrisfriends.com. My favorite Tetris variation is the Marathon setting where the goal is to clear 15 levelswhile accruing as many points as possible. To move forward to higher levels, an increasing number of lines have to be cleared.  Tetris terminology Now before we can start the insightful Tetris discussion, we first have to...

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A group of friends and I had a mini vacation in Santa Barbara this past weekend. We made the trip out to see Death Cab for Cutie at the Santa Barbara Bowl. We stayed at the South Coast Inn in Goleta for a little over $200/night - not cheap!!! But the hotel was quite nice. There was a pool (heated all the time...

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I went to Sodagreen's 2015 World Tour concert and then to Foo Fighter's World Tour (the Broken Leg Tour) concert the following day. The concerts... were very different. Sodagreen's yes we are a cute indie band from Taiwan and we make happy friends message of the night was so different compared to Foo Fighter's I rock hard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! vibe.  Sodagreen's venue was at the L.A....

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I got Super Mario Maker the day it came out (in the United States). It is now two days since, and I have probably sunk a good 10 hours into the game..... oh dear!  Super Mario Maker has become a fast favorite of mine from the Mario franchise. Although the SNES Super Mario will always be near and dear to my heart (is my...

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When I was in college, I worked at an ice core vacuum lab interested in the history of trace gases obtained from ice cores (they also researched about oceanic trace gases responsible for atmospheric processes affecting climate change, but during my stay at the ice lab, I only handled ice cores). These trace gases were extracted and then quantified using gas chromatography mass...

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I have been meaning to make a simple Java game to feature on this blog. My vision is for the Netflix Cat to be running back and forth trying to eat or avoid certain objects falling from the sky. That sounds easy enough. Problem is that I don't really program... like at all. The last time I used Java was in high school...

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