Good Friday, Posted via Sidekick II by natech.
Drank 2 Coors, 40oz Hurricance malt, 32oz Mickey malt. That’s the total of 96oz or 8 beers. All in abt 2 hrs. :-)
Oh yeah, foot bag makes a great ice breaker. I noticed people like doing multiple things like talking, trying to hold their beer in their hand, stuffing burgers into their mouths and playing footbag all at the same time.
Oh yeah, I finally got my free Google t-shirt, :-D
Workout, Posted via Sidekick II by natech.
Managed to get myself out to workout after finishing work at 7 pm, then 45 mins drive back home (should be 30 mins but not in dc traffic.) :-(
Did supersets, then got out on the track. I started on the lane one as first lap, moved to second lane as second lap, and so on. Toward the 8th lane, I was panting hard and the eastern wind was blowing at me. I feel good, able to get “knots” out of my body. Hope to keep it up.
Tomorrow’s Friday, hooray!
I’ve been always fascinated by science—it’s probably my best and fave subject in high school before computers overtook me. I still read scientific books, loved Bill Bryson’s book on Short History of Nearly Everything, Genome Project, etc. I was just browsing and found this really mind-blowing link. The Solar System. It might take a while for your web browser to fetch the image since it’s a big one. To echo Bill Bryson’s words, it’s just impossible to imagine how big the Universe is. We can’t even fathom how big at all. It’s larger than any bigs you can think of.
In this pic, I can’t even find Earth using the horizontal scroll. I’d just miss it as it’s too small to see. I have to use the link to see it. The creator was really clever to use pixels as a scale comparison. 1,000 km = 1 pixel. This is far more accurate and make a better example than the fake planets on wires that are in every science classroom. Jupiter and Saturn make fascinating planets; would love to visit there if we ever have a such technology, which we will but not in our lifetime, probably and instead of trying to build a space station (still not finished), they’re starting a project to build a base on the moon that will serve as a launchpad to Mars and once that is achieved, other planets come next in the line.
Pluto – all the way to the right. Imagine, we’re all pulled around Sun, all thanks to gravitiy. If not for gravity, shit, we’d be completely wander-less and lost.
Hope you enjoy the image as much as I am. See if I can somehow shrink this image enough to fit on my widescreen panel. :-)
States I’ve been to…
create your own personalized map of the USA
1) Alabama – went to the space camp in Huntsville during middle school and high school.
2) Illinois – my home state
3) Iowa – boring state – bunch of Amish families there – from what I remember during early family trip
4) Missouri – most of my dad’s relatives live there.
5) Wisconsin – my good friend has a cabin there near Dells, many lakes there. Good for outdoors.
6) California – SF Bay, Santa Cruz, Brubank,
7) Las Vegas, Nevada – flight stop, got delayed, had to stay at a hotel, temperature was 120 degrees, damn.
8) Oregon – YLC 1997
9) Minnesota – flight stops there many times but never even went out of airport.
10 Hawaii – flew there four times. Rich diversity there.
11) Kansas – Gallaudet Academic bowl – 1998 – should have won the regional there but got jeopardized BIG-TIME. Our lead was almost doubled, 120 to 65. Missouri team had to bet all their points and they got it right, we wrong. The score became 105 to 130. That was one of the sickest moments in my entire life. We also found out that we answered the most questions compared with other regionals. That next year, they changed the game format, no more “gambling” on the final question. Also, we did beat the Missouri team in the first round and then they fought to advance to the finals and beat us and they got to go to the Deaf Nationals in Washington DC. Damn. I was pissed off.
12) Indiana – their deaf school is our biggest rival
13) Detriot, Michigan
14) New York – NYC, Buffalo, and Rochester.
15) Florida – my parents’ good friends live there, interned in Miami, Walt Disney in Orlando, Tampa Bay, Clearwater, Daytona Beach. Probably my most vacationed state.
16) Atlanta, Georgia. Had my IBM interview there.
17) Denver, Colorado – my freshman roommate lives there and recently got married.
18) Ohio – went to the Cedar Park amusement park, which is one of top 5 parks in the US. Is a middle point between Illinois and Washington DC, so I usually stay over a friend’s place there.
19) Pennsylvania – Had to drive through PA to get into NY; just tons of forests there. Sylvan means wood or forest in Latin. (I took Latin class in college). Also went over a friend’s who lives in Philadelphia.
20) Virginia – my uncle lives there; can’t miss it if u drive to DC.
21) Maryland – same as above, the latter one.
22) Delaware – had to drive thru to get to Ocean City.
23) New Jersey – drove through it.
24) Kentucky – drove through it
25) Tennessee – dropped my friend off at his brother’s home, who was in the army.
26) West Virginia – drove through it.
So, 24 more states to go! Dang, still a lot of states to visit. Wanna go to Vermont for snowboarding this winter season.
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South Korea – 2002. Cities: Incheon, Kwangu, Seoul, HamYong. Would like to go back and travel more.
China – 2001. Cities: Beijing – visited the Great Wall; incredible sighting! Highly recommended. Also went down to Tian Jin to visit their Deaf college technical program. Would like to visit Hong Kong next time I go to China. FYI, the distance between Beijing and Hong Kong is farther than NYC and LA, so the people and cultures are vastly different even they’re Chinese.
Mexico – 2001 – Cancun – Spring break, what else? That place is entirely americanized. Full of bars and clubs. Did go to Chichen Itza. It was fun climbing up the pyramid there. Highly recommended too. Heh, we were able to get a rental car under 25 years or older policy (I was the one doing all the negotations) and cost only $50 dollars for an entire day. Definitely beat staying in Cancun all week. You get to see the real side of Mexican life and saw homes that were just a shack with a bed sheet as a front entrance and you could see the entire family inside.
Canada – went to Toronto many times, close to Rochester, about 3 hours drive. Been to Niagara Falls; gorgeous sight, highly recommended.
Still haven’t gone to Europe yet. I really love to travel but work keeps getting in the way. Hope I’ll have more opportunities later.
This water dispenser is really useful. I’ve been drinking more water
while saving money on bottled water. Also I’m drinking less pop now. Go
H20!
