The other chemistry building has a foosball table in their basement. The other day, while waiting to use their (much more well shimmed) NMR, I was looking over the table ( Read more... )

Two more terms that are often confused by people: realism and reality

This comes up as an excuse for unrealistic (lacking realism) things in books, movies, games, etc. The argument goes, "It's a fantasy; it's not supposed to be realistic ( Read more... )

You know what would be really cool ( Read more... )

I may offend half my readers here if I approach this topic one way, so I'll just present it as a personal preference to start ( Read more... )

watched "Touching the Void" last night ( Read more... )

This entry will be brief and will be similar to my one on my favored sounds in that it is a recent discovery of why I like or dislike certain things.

As a perusal of my weekend update entry [1] will inform you, I spent a lot of time this week playing strategy games. Also, you may recall (if you can read such entries) an anti-trivia question on ( Read more... )

On Friday, I was at lab till about midnight, but all I had to do for the last few hours was to wait on a bunch of solvent to evaporate. M. came in looking bored, so I showed him my SNES emulator, and we proceeded to play Mario World. He made the usual comment about being sooo good at that game, so I showed him the extra challenging levels at the ( Read more... )

I seem to have fallen behind in entries. Ordinarily, I do not write public entries on weekends, but this weekend has been particularly lonely. So I guess the entries will balance out in the end ( Read more... )