oh and...

ONE MORE WEEK!!!

it's "world no tobacco day"

that's right, put that shit out. :).
here's the official site.

so i'm about half-way into my research assisting work day and i don't want to do any more. i've been looking for 30mm x 30mm x 2mm supercapacitors of about 20 mF capacitance, a low ESR, and fan-bloody-tastically low leakage current (~1 uA). fun times. so i didn't win the lottery on saturday. bastards.

i'm kinda pissed off because someone erased my jesus. i'd drawn one on my whiteboard that i must say looked exactly like the JC in the family guy. ah well, maybe this time i'll draw god.

anywho, a comment for all you man-USA fans...diego forlan tied va va voom for the golden boot this year (25 goals each). for comparison, mickey mouse scored...6.

how sweet it is...

HOPKINS WHAT?!? WHAT?!?!?

2 years after tillman johnson fucked us over, we got our own super goalie. yeah schwartzman!
go back to playing basketball you fucking dukies.

15 year anniversary

oh, and there also this:

today, 5/27/2005 is the 15 year anniversary of an election called by a Burmese military dictatorship that had ruled the country for 30 years. The junta were arrogant enough to believe that their party would still hold a majority of the seats in the elected parliament after the results were counted. They were shocked to learn that Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy (NLD) won 392 of the 485 seats. Most of the remaining seats were won by other progressive democratic parties. Unsurprisingly, this parliament never convened as the generals refused to accept the results.

for a better account of the day, read here.

el segundo día

are you excited? about tomorrow's game?!? let's just hope it's not raining in philly. they'd better come through this year. fuckers. i'm talking about college lax btw. i don't care too much about this weekend's series against the bosox. when do we play the orioles?

er, it's day 2 and i'm already thinking it was a dumb idea to start this blog. rather egotistical innit? to think others will actually care what you write. ah well, at least this way i'll spend less time writing shit on AIM.

so i just realized that i forgot to play the lottery on wednesday. which is fine because it's up to 210 million now and the numbers didn't match what i always put down (i try to play when it's above one-fitty). 210 million...hmmm...

plans for today? well, i'm going to go to school to do research. have 2 projects with mid-july deadlines...an ultra-low-power DC-DC energy harvester for wireless bio-sensors and a low-power DC-AC inverter for the NAVY so i'm not allowed to know what it's for. exciting i know. hopefully i win that lottery.

of course i'm going to play some footie at five. probably still can't survive more than 30 min running around at altitude. stupid altitude. but i've got new kicks! shinny silver nikes.

va va voom! i still don't think i'll sport the italia jersey just yet.

starters...

so i'm starting this blog because someone bitched that i'm putting too much info in my AIM away messages.

i'm sure you don't care, but i have to get the following sports talk off my chest...

- robinson cano had a better look and would have caught the ball fairly routinely had jeet not climbed on his back and grabbed it spectacularly. speak up cano.

pics courtesy of nydailynews


- before you all get on the wade bandwagon again, kobe's line in game 2 of the 2004 nba finals: 33 pts, 7 asts, 4 rebs, and the game winning shot. we all know what happened the rest of the series.

- i was rooting for the northern monkeys, but seriously, dudek shouldn't be allowed to dance around and come 4 feet off his line during the penalties.

- god damn i hate ronaldinho. why don't you shut the fuck up?