First the Kwik-E-Mart and now the cool Simpsons avatar creator.. the advertisers for the upcoming Simpson’s Movie are doing a good job. Thanks Sheens and Caro for the tip!!

Laurie has been MIA for a while. She has been busy hanging out with her “other” boyfriend named… soap. I thought I’d post some links to pictures of him.

Laurie’s graphics project

BTW, her team busted out and won first prize!!

I came upon the following video of an exploding gummy bear and after reading the details of the “experiment” they were conducting… I realized I had done the exact same experiment in high school… Chemistry Honors with Ms. Lei. I specifically remember Bryan was my partner and for our final lab/project we picked something out of the Anarchist’s Cookbook (all Bryan’s idea).

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We didn’t use molten potassium chlorate but did something similar with some potassium compound, sugar (aka the gummy bear) and something like 18M (= molar .. you remember moles don’t you??) hydrochloric acid (HCL). Now that I think about it, it seems odd that they would let two high school juniors play with 18M HCL… that stuff is really strong. Anyway, by adding the HCL to our mixture of unsuspecting white powder… we got the same reaction as seen above. Luckily, we wore gloves and had this all in a controlled vent area. Afterward, Ms. Lei did give us a disapproving look not to mention a pretty crappy grade on our report. Oh well.

I was watching this TV show the other day… I don’t have any idea what the show was called or any of the actors in it, but I thought this simple formula for happiness was interesting.

There are four aspects to achieving happiness. If you have 0 of 4, then you have nothing to lose and can only get happier. If you have 2 or 3 out of 4 consistently, you are doing pretty well… and if you have 4 of 4, you should be grateful that you are happy. I know this is over simplified, but maybe that is the reason I enjoy it…

Here are the 4 aspects in no particular order:
1. Health
2. Love
3. Career
4. Money

This guy has some kick ass moves.

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Here is a great interview of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates done at the recent WSJ conference… If you are into technology, I highly recommend you watch these two visionaries. The entire interview is rather long so if you are short on time, here is the condensed version (which I thought wasn’t nearly as good