Who says rappers can't be literary?

I bring you the brilliant (in a couple senses of the word) rap song, Hey There Ophelia by MC Lars. This song amazed me.

Hamlet in 4.5 minutes:

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These are some notes from the MLB All-Star Game in Phoenix that mom, Ryan, and I went to this July. The game itself was July 12, 2011, but we also attended the Home Run Derby on the 11th and the Futures Game and Celebrities & Legends Game on the 10th. Oh, and we met up with Carrie and her mom for FanFest on Monday the 11th as well. It was an ( Read more... )

For the first time in 26 years, the Caltech men's basketball team finally won a conference game last night!!! They broke a 310-game losing streak in SCIAC, dating back to 1985, and were finally the team to "do it," as it's been so close for the past several years. It was the last game of the season, at home against Oxy, and they won by 1 point, ( Read more... )

Well, here we are, my mom and I, in Cedar City, Utah for the weekend to check out the annual Shakespeare Festival. I've never been before, but have always wanted to come to one of these summer-long festival things. I left San Diego at 11am Pacific time, changed cars to be with my mom in LA, and then we arrived in Cedar City ~8pm Mountain time, ( Read more... )

So, Daniel and I finally bought a house. It took over a year of searching, ~100 house tours, and ten or so offers, but we finally came out on top with a house we think we'll really enjoy. We closed on it last week, on Friday the 13th (our lucky day)! I'm sure Redfin (our realty company) is happy to finally be done with us. :-P We were fairly ( Read more... )

I'm getting laser eye surgery in the morning. I just thought I'd get one last post in here, in case I go blind and can't use a computer anymore after tomorrow. You know, gotta cover all my bases. :) Hopefully everything will go nice and smoothly and there will be no complications and my eyes will heal quickly. Yes, please? I can't get LASIK ( ( Read more... )

Daniel and I finally got a dog! We had been missing a little furry friend in our lives since Daphne left us back in October, and we finally could not bear it any longer. As a birthday present to Daniel, we started shopping around for a new pet. On Sunday, January 24, 2010, we brought "Joe" home from the Oceanside animal shelter / humane society ( Read more... )

Happy New Year! And Happy New Decade, as 2010 is just kicking off! Well, I'm pretty sure that the last decade (2000-2009) was the most productive one that I'll ever experience, with the most growth and life changes and accomplishments. Hopefully it's not all downhill from here, but I expect more of a plateau with a few spikes along the way from ( Read more... )

I was going to say that this is a story of "terrible irony," but I don't think Richard Castle would approve my terminology there. So it's really just the story of an unfortunate coincidence ( Read more... )

Yay, our paper finally got published in Science today! We've been waiting around for it to happen for awhile now, but the time has come. It's cool that JPL thought it worthy of a press conference, too, although I think they were just piggybacking on the Moon press conference and trying to get MRO some publicity. Meh, whatever, it was pretty cool ( Read more... )