April 2009
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Back
Well, a couple of midterms and lab report and incessant wow playing later, here I am. The semester is almost over amazingly. Wow is horrible, so much honor needed. Good thing I’m just botting the mofo out of it.
March 2009
9 posts
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Death
My laptop has died. It refuses to respond to my touch. It served me for a good 4 years, but I think too much Wow killed it… it’s like, not responding to any stimulus. The power cord works and everything but the thing isn’t charging and the attached usb fan / mouse don’t wake it up. Sigh. I wonder what exactly it is that’s dead. I need to figure out because...
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Waiting
So I’m trying to move around some files to create more space on my laptop while also getting rid of some misc things from my external drive. Through all of this I’ve come to realize that having a super fast data transfer method would be ideal. It’s pretty tiring to shuffle 14 gb of files over USB, and have to wait like 14 minutes to do so.
In other news I took a chem gre...
Spring Break
So the goal is to take a bunch of GRE tests during the break… and … I don’t know. I don’t know if it was wise to decide to take the test. Whatever. I won’t suck too hard hopefully.
Angew. paper got accepted for publication!
I was walking back from lab today and I saw this girl just stop, and like… pull a couple of these yellow flowers from this patch of plants...
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Not Studying
Ahh polymer chem midterm and homework incoming… gotta get to that stuff. I’m hoping homework won’t take too long today, so I’m just gonna poker for a couple hours first then get my ass down to working.
I’m running pretty hot right now in poker, winning mass hands. Almost at 300, go me!
Ok I’m going to put in some hands then study.
As a sidenote the Rockets...
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Fail
Bah got my ochem midterm back. I’m not disappointed with the score I got, but I’m quite disappointed with the way I got that score. Stupid mistakes and some strange grading combined for some pretty newbish fails. I could easily have gone up 15 or 20 pts on the test. Boohoo. I’m never gonna get over the fact that I can’t write “R” to replace a group. Wtf is -5...
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Sunday
Sundays are awesome. There’s always a triple header of NBA, and it’s the only day I can actually sleep in without consequence.
I’m writing a lab report right now. It’s supposed to be done in ACS style and everything, but… it just doesn’t click in my mind. What I’m trying to say is, usually when you write one of these things you’re reporting some...
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Desk Lamp
Ahh my desk lamp of 5 years just burned out on me.. oh light bulb thou hast treated me well.
I did okay on ochem midterm. Should probably have slaughtered that test but.. meh good enough.
Finished majority of paper editing, I’m guessing submission this weekend and then.. we’ll see. I made a kickass cover photo in a few seconds; who knew I was so good at photoshoppping? I hope we make...
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Temporarily Awesome
Got my Chem 150 midterm back today. Let’s just say I was not very confident walking out of the room, and I was even less confident after reading the answer key. But… I apparently got an above average score. I was honestly expecting a 40 ish but ended up with an 82.
Took an ochem midterm today, it was alright. Could have been much worse, I did ok. We’ll see how I did relatively...
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Sunday
The rain is back. Again.
Went to UCLA Cal bball game yesterday. It was a good game. Got to see collison own face. It looks like he can be a legit backup PG; has the length to be annoying on defense a madly huge driving ability. But I have huge qualms with the… intentional foul rule. Theo slightly touched the guy going to the basket, he gets the layup, 2 free thrwos, ball back and they make...
February 2009
11 posts
About to Sleep
Totall yforgot what I wanted tosay.
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Good Night
Went out to play some soccer today, good stuff. I’m really no good at that sport. Could be much better I guess, so much room for improvement. I think in general if I put in the effort, I can be decently good at it. And that’s where the problem is.
Had dinner with Shoeb / roommates minus one after soccer today, and Shoeb was talking about how in high school there was the group of...
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Rain
I have a quiz on polymer stuff at 2pm, shouldn’t be too hard.. I think…
I’ve been playing mass poker, omaha specifically, recently, not really that much, but more than not playing at all.
I saw lightning heard thunder today. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen / heard such things. Freaking rain is pouring now when it’s time for me to go to class. It had...
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Cold
It’s pretty cold. It’s been raining for like … 5 days now. All day today. Boo.
I just watched Righteous Kill. Was about a cop and how he killed the people who got away with crimes. Like Dexter. Except less… Dexter. I’ve always wondered how that felt. When… people got away with stuff and you clearly knew they were guilty. I think to me, I would tend to agree...
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Octuplets
Did I spell that right? anyway. I find this ridiculous and stupid. At least 2 million dollars of taxpayer money is going to be spent raising this bitch’s kids, until they’re not premature. Then at least 2 million more will be spent raising them out of childhood.
Woo hoo for pork!
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Weird
This guy at quizno’s kept looking at me and smiling. Like.. he was looking at me and he just started smiling at me… hope he wasn’t gay ;).
I’m tired.
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Class
I feel deceived! My polymer chem class is… done with chem… and the rest is all going to be more physics than chem. How sad. Oh well… it’s not like I pay attention anyway. I keep drifting off thinking about work now. It’s a bad thing I guess, my notes are covered with structures from… not from class. Hahaha.
I should be at a TTH meeting right now. I’m a...
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Smokers
Smokers should be banned. That stuff, that smoke, is soo annoying. Smells like death and all. I don’t get it. I don’t mind people smoking, but I mind people smoking in my air. And I guess you can’t really argue that the air is everyone’s air because by putting that smoke into my air you’re harming me rather directly. And I guess you can’t really argue that I...
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Idling
I’m idling in the lab right now. I think it’s rather unfair that I don’t have a desk. I mean, I guess I could share one with someone but that’s kind of … awkward? Yea. I’m content with chilling next to 20 L jugs of solvent instead.
I just noticed the tag system in this. Time to take advantage of it with ownage tags.
Weird my computer keeps disconnecting...
Alternative Donor−Acceptor Stacks →
My first paper, I guess I’ll start linking them when they start getting published so I can feel important and famous. Hah.
Oops
Forgot about this thing.. I suppose it’s a good idea to use it. Then again the whole blog thing hasn’t worked for me for like, 3 or 4 years? Yea. Anyway I haven’t been up to much. 12 hours of work a week, 12 hours of ochem lab, 10 hours of lecture, and that’s the extent of my obligations at this moment. That’s really not that much, but I do feel a lot busier now. Oh...
July 2008
13 posts
Joke
If you’re not the solution, you’re the precipitate.
I totally almost burst out laughing on the bus ride back from work.
Evolution
So I’m still reading that book, Language of God, and I must say that it makes decent sense now. I mean, I still find accepting evolution as a valid creation mechanism difficult, but some of my doubts about it are answered. I just don’t see how it the Genesis creation story would even be a nonliteral depiction of evolution. There’s a clear sense of timeflow and order, and...
Concrete
It always amuses me when people say something along the lines of..
“I’ll believe in supernatural stuff if I have concrete evidence”.
But if you think about it, how could you have concrete evidence in our natural world about something supernatural? People always ignore me and remain silent whenever I bring that idea up. Oh well. Maybe I’m not being effective in bringing...
Chickens
On my commute to work today I saw this couple walking… chickens.. like they had 3 pet chickens.. and they were walking them. I found it pretty funny.
Bored
I’m really bored these days. I constantly feel like I have nothing to do. I’ts really odd. To a certain extent I feel burnt out by Wow. But at the same time I do really have fun playing it. It just seems like, it’s too much of the same type of fun. I’m gonna try to read more. Like right now. I’m reading “The Language of God” by Francis Collins. The book is...
Blank
I feel like I should write something every day. But I have absolutely no idea what to write today.
So I guess that’s it.
Batman
Wow that movie was amazing. Joker is absolutely amazingly done. I’m totally gonna get that movie and put it into my movie collection. It’s so poignant and everything they say is so thoughtful and … makes perfect sense. They drew each scene out just enough to not be too much. Joker’s amorality was unbelievable. Awesome.
Luck
I ended up winning that monopoly last night. I missed hitting the other guys’ three hotels 6 times around the board in a row, and he hit my hotels 4 out of the 6 times. Just shows how important luck is in everything eh.
“They don’t even know what they’re striking for. They can’t see...”
Monopoly
I’m playing Monopoly right now. I’m not so monopolizing. American board games are so dumb. They go on forever and are… all in a circle around a board that never ends. Heh.
Sleep
I keep waking up at like, 4 am so my sleep has been more like, 1am-4am, 4am-8am. It makes me super tired for the day.