What Should My New Avatar Be?

Well, I’ve been debating on whether or not to change my avatar and I figured to at least stay relevant and refreshing, I should change.  So, here are the choices and you persons tell me which one you like.

Picture #1 – my, ok, I’m normal look

Picture #2 – It’s the ok-I’m getting-bored-now look

Picture #3 – My ok…-so-I’m-evil look, also can be the ok-what-now look

Picture #4 – It’s the avatar I have now.  It’s my ok, I’m soooo HAPPY look

And finally here’s my video of me posing on the beach, I’ve kept it a secret because I didn’t wanna be all, whoopty do I’m a model, ya know

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haha biotchessssss

Anyways, fellow friends and Rick Roll lovers, I want you all to choose which avatar I should have.  Or which avatar I should have on which sites.  Like maybe one is good for twitter and the other is good for Last.fm.  I don’t know, I’m having all of you decide as I’m indecisive and can’t commit on a picture without some reinforcement (verification) from others.  Sad, I know, but to keep the sanity this is what I have to do.  So let me know btw, here’s my sims character as a teenager, ain’t I just the cutest little sim,

and here’s dad falling on the exercise machine,

My Favorite Old Computer Games….

So, I play a lot of games.  Since this is a blog about my life, I’ll document some old computers games that I like to play.  I haven’t bought a new computer game in a long time so I stick with old games I either have already or download online for free.  First, my ultimate favorite computer game/franchise will always be The Sims.  I just wanted to point that out as a given for me.

Tropico.  You play the dictator of an island.  I know, I know, I have always voiced my love of democracy but this game is fun.  It’s basically a simulation game where you control an island located in the Caribbean.  The fun party for me comes in the beginning where you get to control what kind of dictator you’ll be.  You can choose to be a famous dictator or you can customize your characteristics.  For me I always choose to be a dictator that has traits that align more with the U.S. over Russia.  Also, to have positive traits of being a scholar and environmentalist and make sure one of my negative traits is that I’m a religious zealot and gambler.  That way you please the intellectuals and religious groups at the beginning of the game as well as have opportunities to score money and boost tourism through the gambling industry.  The other fun part comes when you screwup the island and make people unhappy.  Then you will notice people will disappeared into the forest to join coups and they will come back to try to overthrow the government.  Of course, this part only depends on whether or not you set the political difficultly in the game on medium or hard.  Anyways, it’s a fun game, play, theres also nice soundtrack in the game….theres different expansion packs too.  Here’s the opening sequence of the game, you can find game play videos on youtube.

If you never heard of or seen the game Chip’s Challenge, then you’re dead to me.  Anyways, it’s a classic MS-DOS from 1995(?).  It’s basically a puzzle where you do all the necessary things to finish before the clock runs out.  It has at least 149 levels though I never made it that far.  Even though the game is fun, my determination to complete a level causes me to become addicted and so I have to force myself not to play.  You should definitely play this game.  Here’s a preview of one level, the music isn’t the music that’s actually in the game lol

2 Minute Life Update

Here it is, though, it’s only a 2 minute update if you’re a speed reader….should have read the small print before you clicked! Muahahahahahah….anyways, starting….NOW

• Grandparents were in town and I saw them.  We (the family) went over aunt’s house.  We had fun and took pictures, yay!
• I work almost everyday of the week except 2 days, as I decided to work for my dad at least until he comes back from out of town.
• I almost got hit by a car on my way back from Burger King….never eating fast food again.  Especially since the only reason I went there was out of boredom waiting on work to start.
• Driving the speed limit annoys me.  30 mph is ridiculous slow, especially when people are riding my (the CAR’s) azz.  But I refuse to go ridiculously above the speed limit just to satisfy the people driving behind me.
• Spider was on my car’s side mirror.  I tried to playfully kill it by moving the mirror.  Unfortunately my plan didn’t work.  I was hoping it’d go between the plastic and the edge of the mirror so when I move the mirror, it’d be squashed.
• My blog and writing style was insulted a couple days ago.  I was almost pissed but then I realized, who the f*&k cares.
• I went to a small coffee house yesterday.  I love it there.  Unfortunately I couldn’t access the advertised “free wifi” on my netbook.  But, the Chai Tea taste so much better then the kind at Starbucks so I’ll deal with it and play games on the computer instead.
• I still have that e-mail from an old BC friend that was mistakeningly sent to me…by mistake.  It was so personal and juicy that I was thinking to ask that person to write a damn book.  But then that would mean I’ll be acknowledging that I read an e-mail I wasn’t supposed to read so I changed my mind.
• Dilbert comics suck.  Even when I was younger and reading the Sunday comics, Dilbert just wasn’t a comic I understood.
• I got a new phone.  The guy who sold me the phone was so cute.  He gave off a Justin Timberlake vibe.  Anyways, I tend to use products until they have wholes in them (except clothes sometimes) or if they stop working whenever they chose too.  My phone tends to work when it wants to so I just bought a new one.
• Oh wait, I forgot to mention that I won $150 dollars at Greek Town Casino.  This old (middle-aged) woman got up from the machine because she wasn’t winning.  I then got on the machine she was at.  I put my ticket in and bet 20 lines.  The first spin I get the bonus round.  You get to choose treasure chests until you pick one that says the bonus round is over.   I won around $189 but played the game after the bonus round to see if I can win more money but I just stopped playing til after I got down to $150.
• Anyways, that’s the reason I even attempted to buy a new phone but the cute phone selling guy tried to give me extra.  He said I should get the car charger, insurance, and get a more expensive plan with internet or something.  I  said, just give me the cheapest phone since I knew I applied for a discount anyways.  I don’t care about going online for a phone.  That costs $10 extra a month and I’m cheap.  Anyways, my phone is really, really cute.  I’m still getting the hang of it.
• After the T-Mobile place, I went to pet store.  Got my turtles and cats some food.  They better be thankful that I spend my hard earned gambling money on them.  Not only that but gambling is a sin I hear.  I risked my afterlife on them lol.
• I did all this shopping today and just realized in mid-type that I forgot to get the damn batteries for my camera.
• Tomorrow I’ll hopefully not have to leave the house.  Driving is actually a lot of work.  And still awkward for me.  This morning I looked at the California driving manual and realized I could have made a right turn at the red light…no wonder the guy in the truck behind me looked a little pissed off lol.
• While in the grocery store, though I was looking extra cute with my hair down and my off the shoulder shirt.  I still don’t appreciate guys hitting on me whilst I do my grocery shopping.  Give it a break already.
• Speaking of guys….getting bored…..no homo though, just bored lol
• My school updated my balance and they’re giving me the grant they didn’t initially include in the first balance report which means I’m mucho set on my finances for next semester…assuming that my bills stay the way they are now.
• I have to buy a parking pass for school.  I know I’m the cheap type but I’m considering paying $260 so I can park in the structure closer to most my classes.  The other parking structures only cost $180 per semester but the one I want to park in, is in high demand so it cost more   Though, I tend to waffle on this issue, plus I can work in the walk from a parking structure to class into my workout routine so I might choose to buy one for a structure further away.  I’ll update everyone on this crucial issue when the time comes.
• My room is a mess
• I think I finally found the balance of what not to eat when I feel my stomach could possibly hurt.
• My friend is going to college all the f*#king way in Grand Rapids which mean one of my few main friends will be leaving me.  I need friends, I like having few friends but I’d like for them to stay around me.  Anyways, I have to figure out a gift to buy her.
• Can’t wait for next semester, I need something to f-ing do because work, hang out, and be on the computer.  I’ll still do those things next semester but now with the added school work.  I think it’ll be fun next semester.
• Speaking of next semester, I was going to write another Grade Prediction post but I decided not to because I predict I’ll get and A in all my classes.  Mainly because I have to and whenever I’m under pressure, I do well and I’m definitely under pressure to perform better for my last few semesters.
• I plan on going to Florida for Christmas.
• Big Brother 11 is finally getting good now that Ronnie is on the block.
• It’s hot and sticky…I blame it on global warming, others blame it on a government conspiracy theory.
• I hate the fact that I wake up at 9am, do whatever then go to work at 8pm until 11pm or 12am and yet I’m still not tired enough to go to sleep.  I wish to go to sleep, but my body won’t let me.  I end up going to sleep at 2 or 3 am.  At least the good part is that when I do wake up at 9am, I’m still energized.  But there used to be a time where I enjoyed 8 hours of sleep, now I don’t even know what that feels like anymore.
• Sorry for possible grammar and spelling errors but I have no time to proofread as I now have to get ready for work.

Helpful Websites For Science Majors

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You actually don’t have to be a science major to find some of these sites helpful.  Many students might have to take a general science requirement in college.  As a biology major that takes a lot of classes in one semester, I kind of have a lot of assignments from most classes due in a short amount of time.  The sites below I found helpful at one point or another when I needed to get work done fast and/or grasp a concept quickly.  Since on exams you can’t use computers, it won’t hurt to actually learn many of conversions or calculations.  Though it’s not a huge list, I don’t look to the Internet for all help.  Neither should you as I’d hope most of this stuff you’ve learned from your textbooks or professors.  I hope some of these sites come as help to those who don’t have all day to be converting units, performing long calculations, and more.  The sites below are organized in categories,

Jump To:

• Generic Helpful Sites
• Biology
• Physics
• Chemistry

Generic Helpful Sites

Online Converter – This was the most helpful site to me when I was taking physics last semester.  This would allow you to quickly do conversions between units or volume, mass, length, work and energy, and more.  Heck, it even lets you convert text to Morse code.  I doubt I would need that, but hey you never know.

Yahoo Answers – I only used this site for quick answers to problems at the last minute.  I never actually post questions on this site.  One of the reasons is because you can get caught if you post a homework problem, all it takes is a Google search for your teacher to find out.  Just in case I wouldn’t post problems on here.  Though, that’s kind of easy for me to say.  For my physics class a student from our school posted the exact homework problems and actually got answers from people as well as the calculations needed to solve the problems.  Usually, if you have a question then someone else has had that question and they might have asked it on Yahoo Answers.

PDF Search Engine -  Need to find an ebook or article then go here.  When doing scientific research usually scholarly articles are in PDF form.  I actually used this site when I needed to retrieve an article I didn’t have the link to.  I just entered in some key words from the title of the article and the PDF popped up.  Also, after you search at the bottom of the page theres an option to only search for Word and PowerPoint documents.

Wolfram|Alpha – I haven’t used it yet for any of my classes since it came out this summer.  From trying it out it can solve at least basic physics and chemistry problems.  Though, it’s important you know how to covert from grams to moles, this does it for you quickly as well as provide the structures of molecules.  For biology students you can look up terms and enter in DNA sequences.  This is also good for other disciplines like math.

Biology

BioStudio – If you’re rusty on simple things like meiosis or lac operon, then these animations are straight to the point.  You can go through the flash animations either step by step or watch the whole animation play.  There’s also help descriptions of each step in the processes.  I would say they’re mostly helpful in general biology, microbiology and genetics.

Purdue: Principles of Biochemistry – School websites are often the best place to look from help.  The animations are geared towards those in biochemistry.  Basic concepts are here also that may help those in general biology and chemistry.

Smith: Cell Biology Lab – There’s only 5 animations here but they are very important concepts that most if not all biology majors will have to know.  Though the site is about cell biology, these animations are important in biochemistry where you’ll also be required to know details for example like, how many ATP are used or and how many carbons are present on a molecule during a certain step.  The animations are very straight forward and makes for quick learning.

Biofilms & Biodiversity – This is helpful for those in ecology.  Learning how to do calculations for the Shannon’s or Simpson’s index is easy, but the calculations can be time consuming.  On this site it gives detail info on how to do the calculations.  Though, my teacher explained how to do the calculations in much simpler terms.  Anyways, skip the description and scroll to the bottom of the page and you’ll find the calculator!!!  It only does 5 samples or species at a time though.  It was perfect when my lab partner forgot to do the calculations and we had 5 minutes before our lab report was due!

Microbiology Lab Techniques – Just in case you’re given really generic explanation on how to do certain things then here’s a site that might help you.  This page just covers the basics but you can go back to the main page to look at procedures for doing other experiments.

Identification of Unknown Bacteria Application – Probably the most fun part of Microbiology.  You’re given unknown sample of bacteria and you have to do dozens of tests on it.  Then you guess what the unknown bacteria is.  Unfortunately, my lab partners didn’t pay attention to the procedure on using these special kits we were given.  Since we had no kit we only could do a few tests on the bacteria.  That’s where this application came in.  It’s a simple download that doesn’t take up a lot of space.  Just enter in the results from your tests (either positive or negative) then it will let you know the possible bacteria that your unknown bacteria could be.  Using this application got us the extra credit for guessing the correct bacteria, which is why I recommend this instead of using those flow charts.  Just in case you want to use a flow chart or the program is too complication, then go here to Bacterial Identification.

Physics

Old Exams & Homework – This is from a schools physics class directory.  Now, you can find sites like these by simply doing a little google search.  Anyways, this site was most helpful as if you’re a physics student that has to do those annoying WA problems, some of the exact same questions are on the homework assignments on the directory.  Also, the most important reason why it’s helpful is because instead of giving the answers there’s actually an explanation showing the calculations used to work out the problems.  I would only imagine this site is more helpful to those taking general physics courses.

Work and Energy – Well the title sums it up.  If you need quick explanations on work and energy then this is a good site.  It’s very straight forward.

Physics Equations Formulas Calculator – haha! Online physics calculators that are simple!  Again, you should really know how to solve these  problems without these calculators.  Just in case you don’t want to pull one of those all nighters doing homework because you procrastinated Anyways, theres calculators from Work to Torque to Hooke’s law and more.  Give it a try.

Chemistry

Web Elements Periodic Table – Yeah, periodic table of elements is very important obviously.  Just go here and click on an element and get all or most of the info you would need on the element.  Elements like O, N, C, H are easy to remember, but who in the hell besides a chemistry nerd would remember the atomic weight of Osmium.

Constants – Here’s all the constants you’ll need in chemistry, nuff said…

Make Asiprin – Usually most Organic Chemistry student will have to make aspirin as it’s a basic procedure.  In my organic chemistry class we had to find our own procedure on the web and do it in class.  Though, you might want to adjust the numbers to make the amount you’re required to make by your teacher.

Stoichiometry Help – Stoichiometry equals easy.  All it is, is basic algebra of unit conversions and balancing equations.  But, when first learning stoichiometry, it can look intimidating.  This site provides examples and a break down in how to solve the problems.

Chemistry Lab Techniques – Though, you are usually provided instructions to chemistry lab techniques, it never hurts to have an extra site at your disposal just in case.  Also, it explains lab techniques in simple forms.  Includes the all important procedure of recyrstilization, for some reason a lot of students seem to forget how to do that procedure.

Graduation, Memories & Awkward Regret

Well, I went to my cousin’s graduation and it was nice.  They had the graduation inside the church.  Now I’m not trying to be politically correct, but I told my mom, ya’ know, what if someone whos not religious was graduating, she just agreed with me.  I mean, during the graduation they had prayer moment and everything.  Usually I just fake it and act like I’m praying, but I’m older now so I just played with my camera settings.

Speaking of the damn camera, the lighting in the church was horrible.  Even pictures with flash came out dark.  The pictures outside the church came out good though.  When outside besides taking pictures, I was in pictures taken by my cousin.  We just played around and stuff.  During that time one of my old teachers [my cousin was graduating from my old school] that said, hi how are you doing.  Then I saw another teacher that didn’t say anything to me.  I figured I just looked different then I did in high school but…I doubt it.  Anyways, the teacher that didn’t say anything to me kind of looked mad and was never a passionate spunky happy-happy teacher.  And then I saw her husband which is one of my favorite high school teachers.  I mean, we were like-this.  We looked at each other, but I didn’t go over to say hi because we were about to go and my nephew was being bad waving his finger at me just cause I waved my finger at him.  Kids should learn to do as I say, not as I do!!

Seeing as he was my favorite teacher and I would have loved to say hi, it’s really sad for me.  But, after this post the only way I can feel un-sad or un-regretful is by not thinking about it.  Also, knowing that I tend to dwell on these things and think too much about it, I’ll come to the realization that I’m over-thinking.  Either way, I’m pretty sure he’d want me to come over and say hi at least, since he was looking at me that way.  I figure that’ll take me at least a day to get over the awkward regret that I really shouldn’t care about.  I mean, I have a feeling that I’m just crazy as I know most people wouldn’t be over-thinking this.  I’ll just have to chalk it up to my shyness and awkwardness because I could have easily went over to say hi.  Plus, I’m still also a little sad as I heard a while ago that my spanish/computer teacher died shortly after pregnancy.  I mean we were likethis.  We gossiped about everything, shared candy, and she was like my in school mommy that protected me from the mean girls who didn’t know that I thought they were seriously being mean to me lol.

Also, there was some other people I saw that I purposely didn’t say hi too.  Back in high school, a freshman got her Twizzlers stuck in the vending machine.  Since, I’ll pretty much eat anything and I had extra money, I purchased Twizzlers from the vending machine which got her Twizzlers unstuck.  Apparently, that meant I was cool and nice and ever since she’s been kind of acting like she’s indebt to me(?).  Honestly, I didn’t want to be her friend, I was just being myself.  Myself meaning I just wanted her to hurry up out the line whining about her stuck candy so I could get some candy.  There was one person, my friends ex-boyfriend in high school that was actually graduating.  I had no idea that he didn’t graduate with us, I mean, that was 4 freakin’ years ago, what the hell has he been doing.  I remember back in high school he feeling on my breast which spread rumors that we were together.  Don’t worry, he was gay, and the gays are allowed to touch my boobies of course.  It’s more of social thing if you think about it.  Since gay men aren’t into girls they are allowed to do certain things that straight men couldn’t do.  Anyways, all in all the graduation was nice and it was a great time to spend with family and take pictures.  By the way, my cousin cried which was funny to me because over the phone before the graduation he was actin’ all macho.  To be honest, I never cried at my graduation.  As to keep the school concealed, here is one picture I got of the sky and moon,

This Is Random

Nothing new happening except my computer.  I had another relaxing day where I didn’t think about getting serious about my career.  Hey, I said soon not…today!  I didn’t blog at all today except this post. Nothing new for me in the political world as conservatives are still whining and calling Sotomayor a racist.  I hate when people throw their “supposed” college education out the window when attacking political opponents.  Anyways, yesterday night, I got bored and created an “About Me” page for this blog.  It’s my first about me type page, hope you enjoy me rambling about myself and other random things that really aren’t necessary for an about me page.  The least it will be it provide some insight into my everyday thinking…maybe!

There was nothing for me to do today, I just walked around the house with no bra on.  I woke up this morning, topless and walked in front of the window to get to the bag of candy and realized construction crew was downstairs outside the apartment.  Luckily they didn’t notice me (hopefully) since I’m on the second floor but I tried to cover everything up with my arms and hands.  Nonetheless, I repeated this twice more because I really wanted the candy and to prevent myself from eating it all at once I left it in the living room instead of taking it into my room with me.  I also could have put on a shirt, but I like nakedness.  I did end up going to work and getting paid but it was still relaxing.  By the way, last night, I ordered something from the pizza place and apparently the new guy that works there didn’t hear that I wanted cinnamon bread.  I was wondering why the price was so low but I figured there was a deal going on or something.  Nope, the pizza guy arrived with no cinnamon bread, I didn’t make a deal about it though since I shouldn’t be eating that fattening stuff anyways.  Sorry to be random but is it still sexy to say “Aye Papi” during sex? not like I recently said it or anything…*runs*.

*runs back* So, I decided next week that I’m going to start reviewing some key concepts from Calculus 1.  I’m waiting to do all the serious stuff next week cause obviously coming back from camping (or horrible resort) earlier this week has made me extra lazy. Today I found out that you can play games on Google Talk.  The only ones that I know of is Chess and Rock, Paper, Scissors.  I love playing chess, unfortunately, no one I know does so if anyone wants to challenge me in a round of chess then let me know, I’m not the best so don’t worry about me continually kicking your ass.  I could play chess on yahoo but I’d imagine its more fun to play on G-Talk.  Also, I downloaded but haven’t installed the new desktop Hulu app.  I rarely use Hulu but videos on there run slow on my web browser so I’m thinking they might run faster if I watched then on the desktop.  Also, a day or two ago I was thinking about downloading the Google Reader desktop app, but that’s really unnecessary.  I kind of like going to the website and looking at the links.  In other news, theres a damn cat with wings…what next, a pig?  By the way, doesn’t the cat look like that dogish thing from The Neverending Story.  I loved that movie and that dogish thing.

My most listened to song of the day, Cubismo Grafico, “Mississippi One”

hmm…I think this is the most random-est post I’ve written so far.  So random I couldn’t think of a decent blog post title.