The past few weeks have been pretty uneventful. I'm not sure how much I like my toxicology prof, who also happens to be my faculty advisor. She keeps drawing her benzene rings/phenyl groups without double bonds, which makes me squirm. She also says things like "Ok, in this slide the little smiley faces are the toxin, and the little pink box is the receptor they are trying to bond to. In this slide, the toxins are now metabolites and have been activated, as you can see by the fact that the smiley faces are purple." I guess I can't blame her for being girly, and she just isn't accustomed to teaching the chemistry side of toxicology. I probably just haven't seen her upsides yet.
On the other hand, I'm really liking my organic chemistry professor. We were making these things in lab that involved melting a small glass tube in a flame, then stretching it out. When it was my turn, I guess I impressed him with my technique, because he clapped me on the back and said "Wow, that's great! You are a master of flame." I had already known that for years, but it still made me happy to hear.
Friday, April 21, 2006
Saturday, April 01, 2006
The first
Happy April 1st, everyone. I'm never sure whether to look forward to this day or not. There are always the stories that are funny and obviously false, like China buying Google and there finally being a working review of Duke Nukem Forever.
Some things, though, are a little trickier. Google Romance? It looks real, but...I don't know. Google did start Gmail on April 1st, and last year they upped our inboxes to 2 gigs. But "with Soulmate Search(TM)?" I just don't know anymore. And how about a wireless extension cord over at ThinkGeek? Apparently, it is your ticket to the future. I'm at a loss.
Below is the awesome reworking of Slashdot, just in case you see this after the first.
*UPDATE* As for the wireless extension cord, I finally noticed that the availability is "no suing." I knew that anything you would put in the path of a 100+ watt beam of microwaves would be cooked, burned, fried, and killed, but a part of me still wanted to believe it. For shame :(
Some things, though, are a little trickier. Google Romance? It looks real, but...I don't know. Google did start Gmail on April 1st, and last year they upped our inboxes to 2 gigs. But "with Soulmate Search(TM)?" I just don't know anymore. And how about a wireless extension cord over at ThinkGeek? Apparently, it is your ticket to the future. I'm at a loss.
Below is the awesome reworking of Slashdot, just in case you see this after the first.
*UPDATE* As for the wireless extension cord, I finally noticed that the availability is "no suing." I knew that anything you would put in the path of a 100+ watt beam of microwaves would be cooked, burned, fried, and killed, but a part of me still wanted to believe it. For shame :(
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