Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam died in a traffic accident 5 months before the publication of his landmark book about the US war in Korea. In the days following the author’s death, fell

Today I have submitted my first summary for some work I have done which I am the principal author. I hope the summary is accepted and they request a full paper. I hope I can publish two papers eventually out of the work on radiation in space electron

I'm most impressed by the continuous stream of new music in the rock genre.Top bands going into June ... I mean these are buy-it-steal-it-download-it-burn-it goodstuffs IMHO.1. The Raconteurs - Carolina Drama 2. Seether - Rise Above This 3. The

A while back I dated this black girl from Nigeria. It didn't work out a for a variety of reasons, and we went our separate ways amicably. I regret dating her though, because she was not only beautiful, but she made me laugh, and had a lot of conf

So I broke and made the phone call. I can't quite decide what to make of the conversation. I hardly feel these are things I should be worried about now. I hate this kind of pressure, even if it is the slightest. And about many other things, some

Not my ass crack.My fingers are itchy, I need something to occupy my time. This whole life thing is playing out how I always thought it'll be. Grad, get a job, be content as an individual contributor, then live and live and live and die. The End.

1. Finish writing draft for first FT technique paper, do a bit more on CWT to backup math, get to Chair by end of April.2. To get motivated for future school, call old man consistently and whine and gripe about how hard the MS was.3. Start coolest st

In the past week, my support shifted abruptly from Barack Obama to John McCain. I have way too many buddies from ROTC who have spilled their guts fighting wars abroad.Should be writing at least two IEEE papers based off my thesis, but June 1 is far f

I'm fortunate to have walked away from what could have been a fatal auto accident.Rude.

Last week, I was having a really bad day. So when I was driving into the parking lot of local Wal-Mart accompanied by my rather impressionable roomie and a Japanese dude cut in front of me, you best believe I jumped out of my car and barked orders at

You know you're on the edge when you have less than 24 hrs to submit the most difficult work you've done in your life. It will be near complete if you weren't such a perfectionist, and if you didnt keep getting newer ideas on how thi

I wont get to do this again until 2012, by then I'll probably have dreadlocks ... I know I'll definitely be in a band. I should have a couple Rude, Jnrs running around and being really naughty like their daadaa. Hmmmn, the things I dream abou

If you dont feel like reading the history, just scroll to the SOLUTION.My roomie dumped his 17" inch Acer LCD monitor for flicking "on-and-off", and I've been enjoying the hell out of the monitor (dual with my notebook) for two mon

I nearly got in a fucking argument with three fuckers with PhDs, they'd have gotten the better of me no doubt, and in vindictive ways. I mean what level-headed student tells his committee they're up shit's creek with a barbed-wire canoe.

What's all this fucking research shit anyway, I mean I've been mundo-fucking-gracious with all this you're-so-red-ass-so-let's-add-this-too shit. So this deal's off buster. I'm handing in the fucking lab keys, saying thanks bu

I was fortunate to have been part of an organization where the values were: Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selflessness, Honor, Integrity and Personal Courage. These create an interesting acronym.Selflessness:  The quality of unselfish concern for the

Last year ended with a trip to Los Angeles for Christmas and the nasty shock of hearing an "Uncle" in Dallas, TX (where I have only just recently relocated to) passed away while visiting Nigeria. The details are gory. I am now saddled with

You see it on the news everyday, vibrant young men leave for war one day and come back hollow shells of themselves the next. Depression, drug abuse, alcoholism plague their lives. They find it difficult to adjust to society. Suicidal tendencies manif

Very interesting when I think of a group of people who started off all on the same road, and at same point, and how divergent their paths in life have been the past 5 years. It's very funny. I think the winning combination is to be street-smarts,

AFI - Death of Seasons Brand New - Jesus Bruce Springsteen - Radio Nowhere Lesiem - Fundamentum Rush - MissionThat's my "hot" pick for last month.Rude.

So I went to Dallas to visit with faculty at UT-Dallas as a prospective Fall 2008 PhD student and see what kind of research they were involved in. Of course I won't be needing any research grants/assistantships from any of them this time so for t

From first to lastThe peak is never passedSomething always fires the light that gets in your eyesOne moment's high, and glory rolls on byLike a streak of lightningThat flashes and fades in the summer sky

These are interesting controversial comments by a Nobel laureate on the intelligence of Africa. I'm more inclined to think he - choosing his words really carefully - was referring to African-Americans who he has more likely been worked with. Not

  I have all these songs on my computer which I've never listened to. A couple nights ago I went to bed early distraught over some matters of the heart with the computer playing alternative rock. So I wake up at 12am ready to hit the bo

Today, October 15, 2007 is Blog Action Day and the theme for this year: The EnvironmentAl Gore just won a Nobel prize for his work An Inconvenient Truth. I have written about this, and I don't feel all the more enlightened. An interesting and d