Beeho Returns

I was debating b/e the titles of "Beeho Returns" or "I'm Fat." The prior reminded me of batman.

Since Saturday I've  been meaning to update so I apologize. Anyways, here comes a long update.

Recap:

Last Sunday: Flew to Chicago for the Pittcon convention. A few months back I was excited for this but I instead dreaded going because of  all the crap I had to study for in school and prepare applications for grad school. These were all due by sometime during that week. 

Flight was delayed from 11:20 am to 1:55 pm due to bad weather in Chicago. The Captain reported other pilots could not see beyond a quarter mile. Yikes. Coincidentally, the Jazz game was on so I got to enjoy watching the second half at Squatters and drank a nice Utah ale of some sort. Note: I got to fly first class because when I bought tickets with skymiles the only seats left were 1st class. Woopee! Bigger seats, drinks and food.

At the Chicago Ohare Airport I took a leak in the bathroom and I saw this: 

I wasn't sure how it works but I had an idea. However, I wasn't adventurous enough to figure it out.

I stayed at the Sheraton 4 Points hotel. It was nice for the basic 1 king bed I got. Free internet was a plus. That night I walked around a bit the blocks for food. I found this place called Pizzeria Uno and ordered the small deep dish chicago pizza. It took 1 hour to cook that sucker! So I did some wandering and grocery shopping. I bought 2 litre water bottles and some cookies. Then I picked up my pizza order to eat at the hotel. That thing is huge! Took me that night, the morning, and late afternoon to eat all of it. Delicious, it was.

Monday:

The Pittcon convention was huge. I was at a different chemical convention last September and it was small in comparison to Pittcon. I did my stuff but I wasn't really focused on it. All my focus was towards getting my essay completed for applications for schools. 

Got to and left the convention by provided charter buses. During the rides I was reminded how the underground roads looks so much like scenes from the Dark Knight (filmed in Chicago fyi). Cleaned up at the hotel and my friend came by and took me around town. 

Here are some pics:

This is the John Hancock Center Building:

We went up to the 96th floor of that building and got a great view of the city:

Other pictures while we were walking around to our dinner destination:

My buddy took me to this Japanese Sushi/South American fusion restaurant.

Pretty interior designing (poor picture quality. sry!)

The food was even better! ( These were both the dishes for both my friend and me. I'm not that gluttonous!)

Mine:

His:

Ok. So we went all out and got this nice fondue dessert. OK OK...Yes, we are gluttonous....

Pics I took on our way back to the hotel:

Huge McDonalds:

I've been seeing a lot of these pepsi billboards such as this one:

On the way back my buddy said I had to make it a priority to eat at this place next to the Mcdonalds where they serve Italian beef sandwiches. So I did just that the next afternoon before I left for the airport on Tuesday. Pretty delicious.

So that's pretty much it. I did enjoy the free time I had over there. Just wish I had more.

Now for the current news:

It's spring break. I'm doing hw. I'm relaxing. Even went back to the gym tonight after a few weeks of slacking off. I got dizzy after working out but decided to push on the treadmill. During my absence at the gym I've noticed that I've been getting zits and stuff way more frequently. Disgusting...I have to find a way to schedule in regular gym time when school continues next week. 

Long post that took me awhile to make. G'night.

Fuk Utahn Drivers

Seriously. They are serious dangers of the road. On my way home from a good day at SLCC, I turn on to Creek Road, which is under construction where they shifted lanes and eliminated the middle turn lane. I'm behind a Volvo s60 going about 32 mph. The Volvo signals left to get into his/her neighborhood just before mine and has to stop since the middle lane is gone. We wait a bit since opposite traffic is present. Abruptly, a big truck appears my rear view mirror and he's not showing any sign of slowing down! Knowing what might happen, I braced myself and honked my horn. He finally notices, brakes hard, and has to turn to the right off the curb! Bastard. He literally missed my tail by about a foot. My guess was he came at me about 40 mph. Fuk'n Utahn drivers. 

Well, I'm glad I got home safely. Got a friend's bday tonight so I'll get to enjoy the night and relax (or party hard) a bit. My biology test today was rather easy. A classmate told me that he makes it easy so it'll keep students from dropping. Something about being able to drop the class should the first midterm performance be poor. Odd but interesting concept.

My bio lab class afterwards was interesting. This was going to be a long lab but the teacher split the class into four big teams to cut down the time. I joined the electrophoresis group since I've never done that stuff before.  Easy but fun stuff with preparing and watching things move towards the poles. The other groups were doing column and paper chromatography. The groups that did the paper chromatography messed up. Instead of using pencil to mark the level they used markers. lol. So it ended up with the marker oils being sporadic and all over the place. LOLOL.

Since I'm talking so much about school I have another story from this week. Gen chem II lab was frustrating. Easy lab but frustrating partner. Tweek is his name, as you may know. We're doing simple acid v. base titrations. When I read the procedure it mentioned about the accuracy of the volumetric burets to be to the 0.10 ml. I mentioned that to Tweek and he refutes that because the hundredths digit would be uncertain. I murmur "that's the point".... moron. 

On to what did frustrate me. I did the first titration to show him how to work it. Our indicator was phenylphaline, which goes to pink as a indicator (just reminding). We did three initial trials and the measured volumes of NaOH used came out to be: 5.2 ml,  4.7 ml, 4.9 ml. He got  worried because the first trial took more amounts to titrate than the rest while actually being a lighter pink than trial 2 and 3. One of the possible reasons that I gave was that we used top loading balances that could easily be affected by air current. He just wouldn't accept the first trial. 

So I just did another trial to shut his blah blah mouth. When weighing the solid, I demonstrated the errors that come from top loading balances and blew my breath onto the balance and showed him that the balance can give off a wrong reading. Then after titrating that fourth sample, the volume titrated came to be 4.3 ml. Tweek says let's keep that one and throw out the first trial. (Anyone see something funny here? ) I told him that we should keep all trials. We began arguing, and it ended up being stupid and pointless so I just let him be. He even ERASED all his first trial data. Sigh*. Of course, the average of the trials with calculation of the sig figs ended up both of us having the same results. 

Upon cleaning up there was some NaOH left in the buret. He took it while I took the E. flasks. He was about to dump the NaOH into the original NaOH container. Of course, Super Beeho steps in and tells him not to for ethical reasons. He decides to still do it since he just saw someone else do it while I was ordering his dumb ass not to. What's worse is that the teacher told others to do the same. LOLWTFBBQ. I don't like Tweek. Of the four labs classes I have, this is the worst.

However, I really like my elem gen chem lab class. My partner is a cool guy named Jeremy. He's open minded and really wants to learn how to do things right in the lab; asks me lots of valid questions and we enjoy and learn from the mistakes we make. And he's very opposite of Tweek so not all is bad at SLCC.

That was a long read, I know. But you're just bored at work, aren't you? So I don't have any guilt from typing this. I hungry. BYE.

 

I forgot the title

My calculator has returned to me!

MrYoshi says:
wut u up to son
BhO says:
whoa whoa
BhO says:
hold on now. im senior to you
BhO says:
i call you son
MrYoshi says:
lolololol
BhO says:
you call me masta of disasta
MrYoshi says:
P4H4H4H4H4H4H4H4H4H4
MrYoshi says:
*LOL


Tonight's dinner was spring rolls. Options of meat were grilled salmon and fatty pork. There were veggies of salad leafs, carrots and radish slices (long cuts). But what really hits the spot is the peanut butter poop dip. A lil bit of sriracha mixed in the dip and we're good to go.

Valentine's is coming up. I came across these nice ones:







A friend showed me this Heineken commercial. It made me want to buy a 13 pack:



And now another week of school. weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee......

Awwh Crap

Reaching into my bag caused me despair as my hands did not find my TI-89 calculator. I have lost it. But I did get a somewhat assuring email response from my lab instructor that a student may have it and will give it to me in lecture. Hopefully, it returns to its rightful owner. Those suckers cost well over a hundred bucks! That's at least 100 5 piece Wendy's nuggets!

New word that annoys me: rage quit. Often it's used now in online gaming when someone quits when under apparent rage. I'll hear it so often it enrages me to destroy them all...well, not really.

2nd experiment for my Gen Chem 2 course was on wednesday afternoon. A funny thing about this experiment is that it gives the reader incorrect information. Using the arrhenius equation you're supposed to graph the ln k vs. 1/T where the slope is equal to the -Ea/R. However, the instructions says twice in the manual to plot the 1/T vs ln k. I forgot to ask the instructor as to the problem. Tweek was in somewhat denial again. I did explain the concept of y=mx+b and how the manual was incorrect. Hopefully, he'll notice something when he plots the 1/T vs ln k to get something that looks like this:

He might get smart and get this:

I calculated the Ea to be 80.2 kJ. I found a japanese article with an abstract that said the estimated Ea to be 62kJ. I guess that's not too bad considering how poor the lab condition is for me.

On youtube I saw comments that were extending beyond the table comments are usually restricted to. weird because they all were saying ">lol>lol>lol>lol>lol>lol"

As I'm typing this I have learned that blogspot doesn't like me when I added the pics and typed in both the 'edit html' and 'compose' tabs. Oh well.

Lesson of the day: Don't let your mom buy hard rolls on sale. This one in my hand is dry and hard to eat. Ugh.... I'll let it slide because yesterday was my Mom's birthday. Went to Olive Garden on State St. and Vine St. Food was okay but the quantity was good.

Morning 1.27.09

...or evening is more precise. 

Just got done watching a 720p (1280x720) version of the Dark Knight. WOW. I've seen that movie too many times but once more in HD was a good way to finish. Much better than Batman Begins, imo.

Happy New Years to all that know. So far I've had two nights of lots of food with two more nights to go. Tonight was veggies only but it was good. It's like a little buffet. So many things to try and I wonder what's for tomorrow. 

I changed my background picture. I really liked the original picture because I got it from a favorite manga I'm currently reading. That reminds me I should check for a newly released chapter...nope.   :(  The problem was that my eyes felt like it was being pierced when I would read my own blog. So the original background was replaced by a Mr. T. picture where he's spending his Easter Sunday at a homeless shelter and making a prayer with a homeless dude. That earned a bit of respect from me.

I don't know if you've been keeping up with tennis but this year's Australian Open is very interesting. America's Andy Roddick made it to the semi-final and I was waiting for Roger Federer's quarter-final match but it seems that will be later today. Luckily, Tuesdays are my short days at school. Or I can skip it all together because I'm so damn smart. ::snirk::

School yesterday (monday) was interesting. I got back my group test score from my elem org class and we missed one question of 20. Originally, I had circled the right answer but my three partners were strongly convinced it was the other 'teaser' answer. I suppose because it was awhile I did this stuff that I was persuaded to eat the devil's donut (The Simpsons). The class is split into three groups. One group was short that day so I was moved there for the week. Turns out the lowest scoring group was my original group. The girl who takes charge made a point to the professor that they scored the lowest because they lost me. It seems people are catching on that I've had experience in organic...

I finish off with a clip of Mr. T. I think I'll look into his show.

1st Experiment Day of Gen Chem 2 Lab

At least one of you know that I'm taking courses at SLCC to get prerequisites done for dental school. One of them is Gen Chem 2 Lab. I must say that today was rather interesting. I must note that the chemistry lab facility there is horrible. No surprise there. 

I've learned that my partner is a very panicky person. He kept forewarning that we wouldn't get done in time. He also is too worried about others around him. He got frustrated that people started leaving before we were done. I'll name my partner as "Tweek" after the south park character Tweek Tweak.

We were measuring out different chemicals that were already filled in "community" volumetric burets. Apparently, they don't have enough burets for everyone or maybe they're afraid someone will swallow chemicals. Anyways, I was reporting the buret measurements to the hundredths place such as 2.02 ml iodine. Tweek said that we were supposed to do it to the tenths place and I asked him why. He replies with 'because the teacher said so' to which I began explaining why the uncertainty lies at the hundredths. He stubbornly agreed but I later took a peek at his paper and kept them to the tenths. Later the teacher looked at my data table and said I should be reporting that to the tenths. Once again, I explained where the uncertainty lies is the location of the last digit of reported measurement. She gave me a baffled look so I then pretended to be mistaken and changed my data to the tenths. LOL.

Another interesting moment: we were mixing acetone and H+ from HCl in water in a test tube of iodine, and we calculated the time for the reaction to complete by waiting for the colors to go clear. On our first trial Tweek was using a stirring rod but he only stirred horizontally. This of course resulted the top layers to clear up first. On the following trials I told him that he should mix up and down as well. He stubbornly did it but had to be reminded over and over. The mixtures from there on were going clear throughout the test tube. So he learned that the first trial had to be thrown out, right? Wrong! Tweek wanted to use the data of the poor trial for our reaction rate calculations. Apparently, he chose that trial because the time to react was similar to the other students around him. I placed my foot down and said no. 

I mentioned that Tweek was frustrated others were leaving befuse us. He failed to realize that we only had to finish the lab and not the calculations. However, I was not responding to him because I wanted to get all my calculations done before leaving campus. Later I told him that others were leaving earlier because they postponed their calculations.

This semester is going to be fun. I wasn't mad at anyone today but rather, I was entertained. But I did get mad at stupid Utahn drivers going 50 mph on the freeway for reasons none other than being stupid.