1. What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before ( Read more... )

University of Rochester alumnus Steven Chu will be named Secretary of Energy in the Obama administration. He won the Nobel prize in Physics a decade ago, and is a dorky looking Asian American. Good choice ( Read more... )

I have a post forthcoming about my crazy OBOC weekend (see facebook for pictures) and thanksgiving weekend, but in the meantime, two very different videos about love.

I really like FunnyOrDie videos because they are able to stack their videos with celebrities and not even call attention to it. Cast includes Jack Black, John C. Reilly, Allison ( Read more... )

Mr. Wilpon, tear down this sign.

Happy thanksgiving!

After finally finishing my robot lab from heck the week before, I finally had a semi-relaxing/normal week. As it turns out, we got full credit for our lab, despite one of the group members dropping out, leaving me to cover all of his functionality ( Read more... )

First, off-topic, let me say Keith Olbermann is my favorite jock turned nerd political commentator, and I always enjoy his Special Comments. I've also been recently enjoying watching Rachel Maddow with Elise. Maddow, coincidentally, happens to be gay. The following rant is part inspired by his latest special comment (linked to me by [title of show ( Read more... )

At roughly 10:30 CST, I called Evan. The first two words out of his mouth: Hell yes ( Read more... )