To Adam and/or any other willing soul in College Station

Raymond would like to come, but he has no car. If anyone could help him, he would like it very much.

Update: Michael can't make it to frisbee. :-(

Done a while ago...

I installed it successfully quite some time ago. When I had finished installing some stuff, the internet was down again because of heavy virus traffic/attacks. But everything's all right now, and my stuff is happily on my new, internal hard drive.

I hope I don't have to go through that again.

Wish me luck...

I'm going to install my brand new 5400RPM 40GB hard drive in my iBook now...

It may be a while. :-)

News in the nuclear community

Edward Teller died yesterday. Well, right now, the day before. Tuesday, anyhow. He was a great nuclear physicist and the father of the H-bomb.

Here is a link to one of the last interviews he gave before he died.

Sad

Yesterday in my engineering 211 class, a basically college-sophomore-only class, one of the problems worked in class was about removing potassium chloride from water. On one of the students' paper, he had abbreviated it "KCl₂" in about three of three places.

I almost cried.

I can't believe this

The RIAA has resorted to suing twelve-year-old girls. For shame.

Ouch, this hurts

Your Mom is so fat that if one would calculate her Broglie-Wave-Length at the speed of 10^-50 m/s one would get 10^-90.

shamelessly "borrowed" from yourmom.com

Silly me

My random train of thought led me to thinking about how I believe that assigning excessive monetary value to personal injury in the context of lawsuits is wrong. I thought,

Instead of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth:
for an eye, we have an arm and a leg.

Ahh, very clever, no? This can be extended even further:
"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind." - Gandhi
"An arm and a leg for an eye only ends up making people roll around on their appendage-less torso remarking, 'it's only a flesh wound!'" - Seth "Mahatma" Johnson

SB trivia!

Today, in my nuclear 201 class, our lecture was about national and global energy consumption. He was talking about one graph, and said something like, "This graph uses quads; what's a quad?"

I answered correctly, "A quadrillion BTUs." Of course, the only reason I knew that was because of the science bowl questions that came up over and over in practice!

Hooray for Science Bowl!!