(a note before reading : this was supposed to be my February 27 entry... except that my PC apparently 'broke down' for almost two weeks. now that it's alive and kicking, i just have to get this posted before anything else.)

dog-loving doesn't stop with the fur...

...it's moved to the screen! i chanced upon this picture in the net of Doogal, in the movie of the same name. he looks so... HAIRY! and cute! actually his fur looks more like an 'overgrown' wig, but that's what makes it funny. the 3D film's showing right now in the US. *(Movie Plot: A dog and his friends embark on a quest to keep the evil wizard Zeebad from deep-freezing the earth forever.)

anyways, i'm always not making sense. but here's a 'couple' who do:

i pored over an issue of Time Magazine around 3 weeks ago, and the special feature was the Google Inc. founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. THEY'RE SO FRICKIN' AWESOME! imagine being young, intelligent, and a multi-billionaire! moi, before knowing about these geniuses (months ago), thought the people who invented Google were oldies! ha! turns out Page is 33 years old, and Brin is 32. they are both computer and mathematics wizards, honor students, masteral degree holders, simply... geeks! (in a good way!) ... but they didn't know each other until (as i quote from Wikipedia) Sergey was assigned to show Larry around Stanford University on a weekend tour. Reportedly, they did not get on well to begin with, arguing about every topic they discussed. However, they soon found a common interest: retrieving relevant information from large data sets. Together, the pair authored what is widely considered their seminal contribution, a paper entitled "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine". The paper has since gone on to become the tenth most accessed scientific paper at Stanford University. and that was the beginning of Google.com.

as co-founders, Sergey is the President of Technology, while Larry is the President of Products. as of 2005 each's net worth are a estimated $11 BILLION. and yet they remain modest and humble about their amazing breakthrough. that's what's cool to me, baby.

Google Inc. started out with 10 people, doubling over a year later, and so on. to be able to get hired/recruited by them, you'd better be a hardcore nerd by solving this mathematical problem (don't think this scheme still exists, this was on 2004) on a billboard in California:"{first 10-digit prime found in consecutive digits e}.com."

and more sample questions from Google Labs' Aptitude Test:

Write a haiku describing possible methods for predicting search traffic seasonality.

How many different ways can you color an icosahedron with one of three colors on each face? What colors would you choose?

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got your brains boggled? i betcha! (the billboard answer is 7427466391.com, which leads you to another mind-stretching equation. i won't even think about it, though i fancy working at Google. hmm.)

Google's motto: "Don't be evil." despite tough competition, such as Microsoft (which threatens to gobble them up alive -- you know i'm kidding) and Yahoo, and every bothersome condition, they've still got the heart and the spirit. admirable.

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