Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Cool Thing: Mesa in March

I spent this last weekend in Arizona. Paradise. Honestly, when I left Provo, it was snowing at 5 a.m. and it was hard to believe that weather in March could actually be lovely--enter Arizona. Blue skies, 75 degrees, 8,000 sqft Villa, helicopter rides, and the most alluring aroma ever, orange tree blossoms! I was sitting on the balcony reading, over looking an orchard of these trees and the scent of those blossom wafting across the back side of the Villa was intoxicating.

March + Mesa = Mecca!

The only downer being of course this terrible cold I had. I say "this" because it still hasn't gone away. Though it was pretty entertaining trying to introduce myself to people with absolutely no voice whatsoever. I have MTV to thank for that.

Saturday, March 20, 2010

(not) Cool Thing: Broken Heart part I

Our Cougars have lost, breaking the hearts of fans all across the world--including this guy (two thumbs point at myself)... tear. Better luck next year.

P.S. JT is overrated

P.P.S. On a positive note, congrats to those same Cougs for getting to the second round for the first time since 1993!

Friday, March 19, 2010

Cool Thing: Visitors!


Yeeesss! I didn't think I had any readers, (except you Dr. Wiley) but come to find out, someone from Beverly Hills (or who's internet nod is routed through Beverly Hills) stumbled on my blog today! YAY!

It should also be noted that I didn't start keeping track of this sort of thing till today (well, yesterday, it's 2 a.m.) So for all you visitors who have stopped by and didn't get the proverbial nod from me, consider yourself acknowledged.

And to think I was content writing for the ether, something really is corporeal out there!

(Feel free to leave comments, or don't.)

Cool(ish) Thing: Crushes and Frustration

No I'm talking about soda (Brian), but about, well you know, a crush--as in, on a girl. Okay, I've never really been one to want to share personal information on a blog, honestly I feel it's a little strange (obviously I've shared some personal things on this blog, but it was for assignments for my class--doesn't count). I realized the other day that I love reading people's personal insights, feelings, stories--they're just more interesting than anything else. Here is me changing my mind about blogging content (we'll see how it goes):

I have a crush on a girl I talked to for like 5 minutes. Silly huh? The funny thing is, I didn't really notice her at first, because we only talked briefly and I was in the middle of something (anyone that knows me, I'm pretty one-track minded and have a professional "ignoring" skill I use regularly).

In fact, it wasn't till after I walked by here a while ago and said "hi," did I realize that 1) I've seen here before, (thought) "Oh yeah, we talked that one time for a second when I was busy with something, so I didn't pay attention," 2) this girl is really cute. I also found out some other things about her through the grape vine, and by grape vine I mean other people I don't really know very well, who don't know her terribly well, but well enough to know some desirable things about her. I didn't make my secret crush known, the "grape vine" came forth with said desirable information by chance and I was lucky enough to be in the conversation (acting uninterested of course) when such details where shared. Suffice it to say, I want to ask her out on a date now. The obvious step is to just ask her out on that date right? Right.

Here's the problem. I don't know her. I seemed to run into her every day when I didn't care. Now, I've only seen her a handful of times since the naissance of my resolve to ask her out, and only as she is passing by my classroom window door (while I'm in class).

What to do? Suggestion?

Do I wait in the commons and hopefully she pops in for a sit? What if I find out where she is (like in a class or something), should I pull a Provo, wait till she gets out and just walk up to her and say, "Hey, you don't know me, well you sort of do, we talked once, uuhhh go out on a date with me?"

I can imagine that would be reaaallly smooth. I would like to think that there could be some way for the planets to align and have this chance meeting come about, without me becoming a stalker.

Here's to hoping astronomy is on my side tomorrow, gosh it's frustrating.

Cool(ish) Thought


Thursday, March 18, 2010

(very) Cool Thing: BYU Men's Basketball!


"OKLAHOMA CITY — The BYU Cougars, after surrendering a double-digit second-half lead and avoiding two potential game-winning shots by Florida, finally took control of the game in the second overtime to knock off the Gators 99-92 in double-overtime to get BYU's first NCAA Tournament win since 1993."

GO COUGARS!!!

Continue the story here.
Jim Rayburn @ Deseret News

Friday, March 12, 2010

Cool (Scary) Thing: Fabricating DNA... It's possible!




Some of those smart scientist types over in the Holy Land have shown how the "gold standard" of proof in criminal cases can be fabricated--That's right folks, DNA evidence can be counterfeited. In other news, gold can be fabricated as well.

Continue the story here

Andrew Pollack @ New York Times