Background:
Throughout elementary, middle, and high school, I hated reading, mostly because the assigned reading at school didn't interest me (there were lots of fictional stories of coming-of-age women by modern authors I'd never heard of. Plus, these readings usually came with lots of writing drudgery. If you're reading this and know what I'm ( Read more... )

YEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAA GO BEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's 2am and Chris is finishing up the third Lord of the Rings movie as he usually does with movies: by watching it for a few minutes, switching to gchat, listening to music on imeem, checking lyrics, or other things (or perhaps, doing homework at the same time), then switching back to the movie ( Read more... )

After hours of thinking it over, I'm applying to these schools ( Read more... )

Been putting off planning out the immediate future after graduation. I'm 90% sure about going to graduate school in mechanical engineering, but for a master's or a PhD? I think I could do a PhD (of course, I may be presumptuous in thinking so, as I'll quickly find out if I get accepted and attend a school), but do I want to?

Some preliminary ( Read more... )

 Has anyone read C.S. Lewis's The Problem of Pain?

 There's so many festivals and events during June/July!

Just to name a few:

SF Symphony Free Concerts
SF Folk Festival
Stern Grove Festival
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival

SF Theater Festival
Berkeley Kite Festival

Temescal Street Fair
Union Street Festival
North Beach Festival
Haight-Ashbury Street Fair

Plus, in Early September:

Free Shakespeare in the Park: A ( Read more... )

a brief conversation about star trek and plenty of spare time led to the following wiki articles:

-star trek series
-star trek: voyager
-wormholes
-black holes
-general relativity
-tests of general relativity
   -perihelion of mercury
   -gravitational redshift of light 
-albert einstein
   -olympia academy
   -einstein family
-college rankings

X_X brain is ( Read more... )

Accomplish one personal engineering project: a bicycle-mounted, vibration-absorbing camera mount
-so I can take clean, awesome videos of going downhill at 35-40 mph :P

Eat Healthier
-chow.com for tips? we'll see. 
-eat more fruit.

Bike Rides
-NAPA: anyone interested? :D
-Night ride: either in SF or in the Berkeley hills to see the pretty lights
-Grizzly ( Read more... )

dude. why is good-tasting food almost always bad for you?

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one thing in common: freshness.  Whether food is healthy or unhealthy, fresh ingredients make for better-tasting food.

to make healthy, delicious food seems to require extra knowledge and creativity (even with good ingredients). i wonder if a wonderfully made, super-creative, ( Read more... )