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More thoughts about the world

I notice that I have many good ideas ( at least I think so) for stories floating in my head but when I go to write them down, I always have trouble articulating my words and my story always comes to a halt after the first couple of paragraphs. This frustrating phenomenon got me thinking about what would have happened if important people in the Earth's history had not been able to express their ideas due to some condition.

For example, what would have happened if Barack Obama (by the way, when I wrote his name the spell check gave me the following correction: Barabbas Obadiah. Think it was hard to become president with the name Barack Obama? What if his name had been Barabbas Obadiah?) had Tourettes syndrome. I don't know how many people would be inspired by: %$#@& yes &*%^$#* we #!*#& % ?%#@!!# can.

Or what if Michaelangelo developed Parkinson's disease while he was carving David or painting the Sistine Chapel? Instead of beautiful art we would have a huge block of marble with randoms indentations in it and a ceiling with a bunch of uncoordinated dots and squiggly lines.

Lastly, what if Albert Einstein didn't have crazy hair? You might be wondering how that would compromise the expression of his ideas. Well, who's going to believe a normal looking person with a crazy idea. Yeah, that's right, nobody. But if you look crazy and have a crazy idea, then you're just another quirky genius. I'm also working on a theory that the hair had some Samson-like property of powering his intelligence. That's why when he grew older and lost his hair, he wasn't able to develop the theory of everything.

Pray to the marks god. Results guranteed!

So I have noticed there are a lot of Asian people around and that a lot of Asian people care very much about their grades in school. This must mean that there are a large group of people praying about getting good grades(Now I must admit that I was one of these people for a short period of time, although since I wasn't officially a believer of any one religion I kind of sent out a hail Mary prayer to all the gods, thinking that one of them would help out a little Asian boy in trouble). Now praying doesn't make much sense to me since gods should have other more important things to do than to make one individual get a good grade on some exam. So I have created a religion based on the belief in the marks god (Before you say how stupid this idea is, let me just say that it makes a hell of a lot more sense than Scientology). So like any other god, the marks god is not a physical being but rather the essence of perfection that we all aspire to. Unlike the other religions, this does not promise glory in the after life but rather glory in the present life which seems a heck of a lot more tangible. By now you must be wondering, "How do you ensure glory in the present life?" Well, like any god you must pray to the marks god, which is quite simple in this case since you may also know it as studying. For those of you who are thinking this is a load of BS, I invite you to piss off the marks god by not studying and see where that gets you.

people who look like other people

So I noticed teachers often look like actors for some reason. I give you 3 examples.

1. The actor playing Leonard on the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory resembles my current chem professor

2. A math teacher at my old high school really looked like Chuck Norris. (You may be asking, "Aren't both those pictures of Chuck Norris?" Indeed. You'll just have to trust me on this one since I could not find a picture of the teacher anywhere)

3. My old English teacher resembles an actor (Actually this one is kind of cheating since he is both an actor and a teacher)

Some thoughts about the world

1. Have you ever noticed how everybody seems to play video games. I personally don't but that's nothing against those of you who do. Anyway, I find it alarming that most video games are so violent and realistic. Take for example the game StarCraft, which is adored by millions around the world, most of whom are Korean (If you are reading this and are a Korean who hasn't tried StarCraft, then your mother was right when she told you that you are very special). The whole concept of the game if to win a space war against various alien races. In the past, wasn't the point of a game to develop skills that could be useful as an adult? How could playing StarCraft possibly be useful as an adult. I do admit that IF aliens ever invade us, Koreans would probably save the world. Until then, I'll leave the alien invasion prep to you guys.

2. Famous authors are not having it easy. Sure they make millions of dollars and are adored by millions, but there must be a lot of stress to the job. What if the next book isn't good as the last? The fan backlash would surely be palpable. In fact, didn't fans prevent J.K. Rowling from killing off one of the characters in Harry Potter? If this is what life is like for modern authors, what would it have been like for the writers of some of the most famous books ever. Take the writer of the bible. I imagine a diaglogue between he and a fan would have gone like the following:

Author: So, I'm thinking about killing off Jesus.
Fan: What???!!! You can't kill off Jesus. He's like the most important character in the whole story.
Author: All right, I'll kill him but then ressurect him a few days later so it wil be like he never died.
Fan: That sounds better. Oh, oh, could you also give him super powers. That would be awesome.

Just a note: if you are the strongly religious type and I have just majorly offended you, then I am sorry (although I'm sure that you laughed a little bit after reading that, right?)

My secret BFF, art

The only reason art is my secret BFF is that I don't want to worry my parents by making them think that I will suddenly ditch my future in science to become a freelance artist living in their garage. To be honest, I really am not planning on doing that although it may be funny as a practical joke. Anyway, when your own art teacher tells you not to do art as a career, that really has an impact on you. Although, maybe he thought I would have a good career in art but would be too much competition for him so he lied to me instead. If my art teacher is reading this, that last sentence was totally untrue, right? So when I found out in high school that I had to do a creative portion for my CAS portfolio, I had a way of doing art without worrying my parents. For those few fleeting months, I was able to get high on art. (If you think I mean high metaphorically, that's not completely the case since working in a small room with open jars of oil paint and turpentine for hours can make you see things) Now is an opportunity to show you some of the art I have been doing. Just a note, some are oil/acrylic paintings and others are photos. Enjoy.

Funny names/symbols in science

Siemen: a unit of conductivity (sorry about the immaturity but laughs are hard to come by these days)

Ohm: a unit of resistance (funny on two fronts: 1. the symbol looks like the lululemon symbol and 2. if you stretch out the pronunciation it sounds like you are meditating perhaps while wearing lululemon designed clothing)

Gay-Lussac: French chemist who determined the relationship between pressure and temperature in gases.(Only a French person could pull off that name and not sound funny)

That`s all for now. Kind of a pathetic list but I have exams to study for. It`s not like this blog is meant to entertain you. Well, actually I guess it is. More will come as I find it.

What does James Bond have to do with Chemistry? Just everything!

So I watched Quantum of Solace (the new James Bond movie) last last weekend with my parents. While my parents were discussing how violent the new bond movies had become compared to the old Brosnan or Connery versions, I began thinking. What was I thinking about? Chemistry of course! Then suddenly, these two completely different ideas slammed together in my head like a truck full of chocolate and a truck full of peanut butter. What was the result? Only my James Bond chemistry conspiracy theory. I am sorry for any of the non chemistry people who will read the following and have no idea what I am talking about, but it needs to be said. First, the name Bond. Is that just a cool name or does it actually have to do with bonds of the sigma or pi variety. Second, in the Casino Royale movie, the bond girl's name is Vesper. Just a cool exotic name or do they really mean VSEPR(valence shell electron pair repulsion), an important theory to draw bonds in chemistry. Lastly, Quantum of Solace. Just a quirky title no one understands or do they really mean quantum as in quantum mechanics which also has to do with bonding and molecular shapes. I'm sure there are other similarly troubling examples of this but I am too lazy to find out. What's next? Will the next Bond film feature an evil German villain named Schrodinger or maybe a secret organization whose only symbol is a cryptic letter psi. Although come to think of it, this does sound like a pretty epic Bond movie. I'll probably watch it since I only go for the cool special effects anyways.

Hello World

I created this blog because my friends suggested I do it, but also, I created this blog to minimize the impact of Isaac Newton on the world. I mean, how can one person come up with three laws that define everything around us? Not fair. Newton's Law of cooling, the Newton (a unit of force)...this guy was everywhere, and I'm not sure if he was even that nice of a guy. Maybe it's time for other people to decide how the world is like. That is what this blog is for.

Just a note on the name. It's not my real name although it is close (same initials). This pen name is just so I don't get in trouble if I every write anything stupid or if my parents come looking for my blog.