Blogger got a new beta out now and it's working in tandem with google. It's nice in the sense that they kept the old formats so you can still easily access the html/css codes if you need to (unlike MS, which upgrades the user interface so that the newer the version you own, the harder it is to change the basic functions such as finding the idiotic Win Messenger Function and turning it on for the duration of one week), and there're nifty new options. It's also a little scary considering that this is yet another example of how far Google can reach.
It's a little like the cyberspace version of WalMart, and though I say this jokingly if I find out that somehow they DO use certain unethical practices (which I have a nagging feeling about, anyway) I'll...oh I don't know...start writing email protests and sending them to random congress members or something. (In Gmail, now wouldn't that be ironic?)
Last chem lecture this morning. Our professor, during the last few minutes, showed us a clip he made with a student a few years back when he dressed up "incognito" (i.e. looking like a somewhat shabby college student) and went around downtown Davis to interview/ask people random questions about chemistry. My favorite conversation went something like this:
Prof. E.: Do you or your parents own a car?
Guy (possibly a random highschooler): Yeah?
Prof: So, have you ever taken the car to the mechanics?
Guy: Uh. Yeah?
Prof: Different mechanics?
Guy (gives professor a weird look): Yeah.
Prof: So, which do you like better: regular mechanics or quantum mechanics?
Guy: I...uh...sorry, what's the second one?
Prof (straight-faced): We have: the regular mechanics and the quantum mechanics.
Guy: ...I guess the quantum mechanics....
Prof: Why?
Guy: Dunno...Guess they're better or something.
And then while the TAs are passing out the course evaluations he told us what he did last weekend, which involved his wife getting and decorating a tree while he took all the old test tube cleaners (by old I mean the ones with wooden handles)that the chem department threw away and was tossing them into the fireplace to watch them burn. He told us how they light up like fireworks because the students had to use them for all these labs and they got all these ions on them.
This is one chem professor that I will miss.
Also, Lucy, the sad thing is, the email is actually not written to be complicated on purpose. Though I have no idea why she'd ask the undergrads since it's usually the grad students with the treated genetic material. We (undergrads) tend to get more lecture/fieldtrip emails.
Yes, I'm at that stage again where the amount of drawing and writing I churn out per two day period actually goes up despite of the decrease in available time. It's how I deal with stress--by working more (which, come to think of it, is probably hellishly unhealthy on the long run). Did an inventory yesterday and discovered that I'm down to my last working black ballpoint pen (I waste ink, esp. when drawing) and that I need a sharpie. Well, things to petition for over the winter break. Along with a new pair of gloves since I lost one of mine this Monday and am only still in possession of all my fingers only because Annie has been kind enough to loan me a pair of hers. The mornings are freezing.
Okay, this is as long as I can put off a ten-paged incoherency. Time to go essay-editing.
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