wednesday was my birthday and it went pretty well. jacob got me the new futurama movie and cannibal: the musical (my old copy got lost) and rick got me cinematic titanic: frankenstein's castle of freaks. rick asked me if i ever used the six flags season pass present i got last year from everybody and yes i did in case you were curious. i only could ( Read more... )

the planetarium at UTA is playing blade runner for $2 the following days and times ( Read more... )

jacob and i have been and are currently watching weird european metal/black metal/pop metal/power metal/etc video after video and im starting to get a massive headache but i dont want to stop either. is anybody else going to the texas pinball festival this weekend? i think im going early sunday until they shut down. spring break is here and im ( Read more... )

if you have never heard of galaxy zoo, i feel compelled to tell you about it. it is a website where after you register, you classify pictures of galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. people are better than computers for this kind of task and the more people who participate, the more accurate the data. they cite people on papers and posters ( Read more... )

uta is having a pretty rad speaker on tuesday for the international year of astronomy. his name is Neil deGrasse Tyson and he is a pretty awesome astrophysicist. here is a link to a description of the event ( Read more... )

it is day to of school being canceled and i like it. my home that was due today for advanced mechanics isnt due till friday now and it gives me plenty of time to do more homeworks, catch up on my reading for my classes and even work on my research. to celebrate i am bundling up to drive to the store, very slowly, to buy ingredients to make faux- ( Read more... )

i havent had any diet or regular soda in a few weeks now which is pretty neat but with school starting up soon im not sure how long i will last. made an A in my world literature class over the winter break. this spring i am taking advanced electricity & magnetism, advanced mechanics, partial differential equations, and astrophysics & cosmology. ( Read more... )

my first week of winter semester was good. our midterm was on saturday and i think i did very well. my teacher is really nice and i am enjoying the material we are reading. now i have a whole 2 weeks off. call me if you wanna do stuff cause now i can! i found out monday that my insurance only covers prescriptions up to 1000 dollars for an entire ( Read more... )

i made all B's in my tuff ass classes this semester which is rad. im taking a literature class over the winter break which im actually excited about. the only bummer is that i only get 3 weeks off from school instead of 5. and i have to read two books and work on a project during the 2 weeks they give us for christmas. i start tomorrow night and my ( Read more... )

i talked the society of physics students into buying the equipment to make a theremin. i am beyond excited. and when i say i "talked them into" it, i mean i told them we should, they asked what a theremin did, i described it, and they all got excited about theremins too. we are currently working on making a bed of nails. i love physics. and ponies ( Read more... )