McDonalds Monopoly

Monopoly is back at McDonalds, which means it's time for another year of peeling stickers and praying for Boardwalk.

I've already won a few medium fries, a breakfast sandwich, and a wrap. Get out there and go win some stuff!

University Life

After a few weeks in the big University, it is easy to get lost amongst the thousands of students. My current University has over 23,000 undergraduates alone, with about 5,000 graduates. Most students are lost amongst the crowd, and everyone is just a blend of faces.

Lectures are no longer face-time with professors; instead, it is a form of dictatorship where hundreds of students type away and trying to process the words of an aging professor. It lacks vigor, communication, and personality as much as it makes up with efficiency and technicality.

Lecture halls are so enormous, cramped chock full of hungry college students with squished into small spaces. God forbid you are obese, as every hour of discussion and lecture is hell.

Google Chrome

I've got a major bone to pick with Google chrome. Sure it's lightning quick and fairly stable, but there are also a few issues that should be dealt with.

Firstly, it should render all websites just as well as Firefox or IE. It often have problems with basic HTML and Java, and won't even let me post links using Google's own publisher.

Secondly, Chrome has trouble supporting some of the online applications at the same speed and consistency as Firefox. It often crashes even when viewing youtube, which is rare for any browser.

Before you angrily assume my computer is at fault, my PC is running Win7x86Pro, Intel 860 i7, 4GB DDR3 1333, and a GTX 280 (OC).

Meh; I think I'll go back to using Firefox like it's 2007....

Miramar Air Show

Just returned from Miramar Air Show last night, and I've got plenty of photos.

Make sure to check out my flickr photostream!!

my flickr photostream

Rain

It was raining in San Diego yesterday, and I took this photo of a plant outside of my apartment.

What do you guys think?

Air Show

I'm thinking about going to an Air Show this weekend at Miramar.

The Navy's Blue Angels have been doing practice runs all afternoon, so all of San Diego and La Jolla was subject to ear-piercingly loud rumbles of F/A-18 Hornets. To top it off, the rare thunderstorm and rain has made everything smell refreshingly springy and clean.

Here's a photo I took from the balcony of my apartment just an hour or so ago (as of this posting).

Thermite!!

Just watched my chemistry professor light thermite in class as a demonstration of hetergenous exothermic reactions.

You may remember thermite from the Mythbuster's episode of asking "is it better to end with a bang?". Jamie and Adam used thermite to cut an SUV in half. Pretty awesome.

Blue sparks, thick smoke, and dripping lava-hot iron.

Chemistry ain't so bad at the university level, eh?





Video is of the same room/contraption, but different professor/class. I think this was a few years ago at UCSD.