Happy new year everyone!

I don't really have much to post here right now, but I may have more later, so for now I'll just say Happy New Year!

P.S. Also testing out the scheduled post option.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas Y'all!

Also, this is kind of fun: http://www.google.com/santatracker/

The end of the world (again!)

I really can't keep from laughing at the end of the world predictions, as they are really often quite ridiculous. (This is what, the third time this year?) For example, if the Mayan calender ends the 21st, at let's say 22:00, what happens when you move to a different time zone?! On that topic, this was rather amusing:

Project London

Project London is now on Kickstarter!

Haven't heard of Project London? Click here, or watch the trailer below!

Project London: Official Trailer from Phil McCoy on Vimeo.
(made with blender)

It's really amazing how this was made, and the graphics and sound effects are amazing!
Here is the speech from the screening: http://projectlondonmovie.com/wp-content/uploads/PhilsProjectLondonCastCrewScreening-speech.pdf

Here is the kickstarter page: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/philmccoy/project-london-help-us-release-this-movie

And here is the official website: http://projectlondonmovie.com/

More chemistry...

Here's a normal comment from my chemistry course...

"The equation seems to suggest that the rate constant, 'k', is dimensionless since activation energy over the boltzmann constant times temperature is joules over joules in dimension. However, this problem and the book indicate that it's in inverse seconds. And all of this is confusing me in my calculations. Could someone clarify this for me? - saturnianalien

("All this is confusing me" -You're not alone!)

Someone responds...

"The dimension of k is 1/s. the exponential function is dimensionless (both EA and kB*T have the dimension of energies, but k0 has the dimension 1/s."

Also, zeroth is a word (It's in my textbook)

1000 Views!

My blog now has over 1000 pageviews! 

(Made in Blender, some textures from spiral graphics)

Thanks to all the readers of this blog :)

Here are some miscellaneous stats from this blog: 

I always like to see statistics for websites. It's also interesting to note how many views are from Russia. Someone over there is keeping tabs on things...

I really like that chart on the left :D Keep it coming!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

What better way to celebrate the LORD's goodness than to gather together and thank him?

After church in the morning, we had our grandparents over. It appears that was a common idea, because this is what our street looked like!

YouTube view counter

This is a really well liked video...

I wonder when YouTube is going to fix their view counter problem?

(Really awesome video by the way)

Even more impressive is that they filmed it in less than 24 hours!

Molecules...

This was in my homework, and it's kind of neat, so I thought I'd embed it here:


Your browser may notify you that this has insecure content. (especially if using Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure), but it is being hosted by Amazon, and is being used by MIT, so it should be fairly secure.

--Edit-- Take a look at this too:

The elements...

While on the topic of chemistry...



And, more recently, something like I would love to do: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cbgAELAX18

I do not like chemistry!

And this is why I should not be taking the chemistry class I'm in right now:

"...assuming that you know the F-F homonuclear bond energy is 154.8 kJ/mole. Express your answer in kJ/mole."

Right...just assuming I know that sort of thing.

The Story of a Shared Gmail Chat...

{3:17 PM John: We have not lost our power yet, but it has been flickering. Glad to hear yours is back. Kristie

3:18 PM me: I hope yours stays on. Do you have a generator?

 John: yup

3:19 PM me: That's good, we don't but our neighbor does. Right now I'm watching my Harvard computer lectures.

3:20 PM John: Good you can get school done when the power's on!

3:21 PM I did my BB work this morning which is good.

  Edit: BB computer work

 me: Actually, I downloaded the lectures to the laptop, so as long as I have battery left I can watch the lectures, which is nice.

3:22 PM I'm glad you were able to work on the Bible bee

  What computer work?

 John: Yeah. Battery on my laptop stinks. It has like a 6 minute life.

  Oh, I am typing all my cross references into quizlet

3:23 PM me: I added a external battery pack to this laptop, so I get a lifetime in the hours, which is great.

  Have you tried Anki? That's what I have to use for latin.

3:26 PM By the way, if you discharge a laptop battery below 40% it damages it.

 John: Translation please...

 me: for...?

3:27 PM John: last thing you typed.

  x-(

3:28 PM me: Most laptops have a battery status indicator. If is says 40% battery remaining (or less) than you are damaging the battery.

  Is that any help?

3:29 PM John: anki looks like it might be good, but since I already have typed 700 some crs into quizlet I think I'll stick to that.

  okay. that's what I thought you meant. So you should plug your computer in if it is at 40%?

 me: O.K. I like it because it's cross-platform, and you can share quiz sets

  yes

3:30 PM John: got to go. by

  cross-platform? shared across computers

 me: O.K., bye

 John: that was Mark

  ~Amy

 me: Who am I typing to ???

 John: Jessie

3:31 PM me: I'm starting to wonder here...

 John: nonono

  Kristie. truly

  Amy is telling you silly things.

  DONT LISTEN TO HER!!!!!!

  just we have 3 computers with gmail up and I'm trying to control Mark ~Amy

 me: O.K....

 John: I should get back to work now.

  Kristie

3:32 PM me: Me too, 73.

 John: FEAZLE DORP

  I enjoyed having this chat session. signed Kristie

  KRISTIE'S THE PROBLEM

  ~Amy

  Every weird thing stated is Mark aka Feazle dorp

  Its Amy

3:33 PM believe me

  Mark, quit!!!

  BY ~Mark

  Finally Marks off!!!

3:34 PM He is so annoying

 me: O.K., this was the most interesting chat I've had in a long time.

 John: that was Mark too.

 me: That's what I thought

 John: I am not off!!!!!

3:35 PM me: By the way, if you have three people typing to me, I have three people (Beth, Ethan and me watching this :D)

 John: next time dont fix Mark's copter. he keeps flying it into my head! x-(

3:36 PM me: So sorry, I taught him how to fix it on Sunday!

3:37 PM John: HEY I never flew it into your head!!!

 me: Wait.. is that how it got broken?

 John: as you can see, Mark easily gets bottled energy that he exudes on his sisters as they peacefully are walking through life.

  I didnt!!1

3:38 PM me: Oh yes, we don't have anything like that around here! ;)

3:39 PM John: That;s because Ethan's hair was sticking up last night!

  I might call Beth soon - Mark

  DONT LISTEN TO MARK

 me: You know he's watching this, right?

3:40 PM John: That is so off topic.

  ugh, Mark is making this all up himself. If you want to get any school done you might want to just close gmail completely except that you might find this too amusing. ~ actual Amy

  THAT IS NOT OFF TOPIC

 me: Who is off topic?!!!

 John: HER

  HIM

  Mark and Ethan of course.

  Kristie

  HER

  HEr

  HER

  Her

3:41 PM NOT ME

  Obviously the all caps things are Mark.

  her

  her

  her

  not me

  that is actual real live Amy

3:42 PM me: This has afforded quite a bit of amusement, but I really have to finish my Harvard computer class (next class: how to hack Google chat! ;), so goodbye.

 John: bye. Kristie

  BYYYYYYYYYYYYY

  Kristie's off

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Anyway, let that serve as an example to you!

By the way, a couple of notes: I changed all the names. I did some minor spelling/format corrections (I left 

most of it as typed), and, I was just kidding about the hacking as you can see from the ;). (Though I am taking CS50)

Also, the responses don't always line up with the questions, because I can only type so fast.

Enjoy!

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Oops, sorry, too much C programming ;P