Reactions to chemistry...

Some of my reactions when taking MIT chemistry:

(There are a number of weeks omitted in this list)

Week 1:     No problem! What's the big deal?

Week 2:     Woah, what happened? This stuff is hard!

Exam 1:     There's no way I'm passing; the question is just how long should I stick with it?

Week 7:     I've asked someone who majored in chemistry, and they have no idea how to solve these problems.

Week 9:     I've asked a college chemistry professor with a PhD, and they have no idea how to solve these problems.

Exam 2:     For some reason unbeknownst to me, I scored 4 % higher than on the first exam, but there's still no way I'm passing.

Week 10:     How in the world did I get a perfect 100 score for my homework ?!?

Week 11:     Whooho! No homework, and I only need a 44 % in the final exam to pass... Just maybe.. !

Week 12:     Whoo- AAH! The Final is this week!

Final (before):   It would take an act of God for me to pass!

Final (after):     -And a miracle occurs...

Never again!

YouTube fun

Try this: play the video, (it's just one of mine that I used) and click once on the screen to pause it, and again to start it. Now push and hold the right arrow then press the down arrow. If it doesn't work, try watching it directly on the YouTube page. Enjoy!

Classic game of snake!

Also something of how I feel about EULAs

Sometimes I just wonder why...

It should really only take a few lines to say whatever it is they are trying to say.

Something of how I feel about Windows 8

I hear some good and some bad about Windows 8, but I can't stand the interface, and I like Linux 

Another thing about Linux (at least most versions) is that it keeps its value.

If you want to sell it, it goes for exactly what you paid - $0!

Linux and its many flavors

Have you ever wondered just how many versions of Linux there are?

(apparently not enough!)

This chart from Wikipedia shows it nicely:

!!!

Just so you know- if you want to try Linux, there's no shortage of versions!

Too many options? I'm planning to do a review / comparison of some of the more popular ones soon

Facebook

Man, how do they know that? I'm not even on facebook! ;)

(Otherwise it could be rather more effective marketing!)

Really neat case mod

Here's an exceptional case mod from the Cooler Master competition (It won)

And here's a link about how he made it (always the most interesting part!)

http://forum.coolermaster.com/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=15670&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

Every once in a while I'm tempted to see what I could do with some of the old cases we have, but I'm just not really comfortable with having all the parts exposed like that, though it does look really neat.
(plus, watercooling is expensive!)

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)