Most of you guys have probably heard of the da vinci code. The prequel to it, Angels and Demons, is a really good read, especially when you need to be studying for o-chem midterms.

Slow Jamz by Twista. Download it if you havent heard it (!?), its pretty cool how fast he raps.

Here's a cool shirt.

Another new description! Guess the artist (without googling!).
Beatles
Blink 182
Elton John
Elvis
Mariah Carey
Nelly
No doubt
P. Diddy

While doing my best to keep up with Smallville this year, it donned on me how similar the show is to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one of the original teen action-dramas. So in order to put off studying for my o chem midterm for as long as possible, here is a head to head comparison between Smallville and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (counting only the first 3 seasons).

Setting
Smallville: Smallville, a small town in the middle of nowhere.
Buffy: Sunnydale, a small town on top of the Hellmouth.
Advantage: Buffy

Main Character
Smallvile: Young Superman.
Buffy: Buffy, a hot blonde who can kick ass.
Advantage: Draw

Love Interest
Smallville: Lana Lang, a hot girl who runs a coffee shop.
Buffy: Angel, a hot vampire cursed with a soul.
Advantage: Smallville

Supporting Cast
Smallville: Chloe, a friendly teen reporter who helps out Clark and cries a lot whenever he makes her feel bad. Pete, constantly shows up to say "Give me a 3 second summary of the plot Clark" and then disappears.
Buffy: Willow, best friend who is always there when needed to help defeat evil and say funny lines in the process. Xander, best friend who is always there when needed to help defeat evil and spurt out clever jokes in the process.
Advantage: Buffy

Parents
Smallville: Clark's dad who always watches out for him and gives good advice, and temporarily gets super powers to attack Clark when necessary. Mom who says "Be careful Clark".
Buffy: Mom who says "Be careful Buffy" and accidentally awakens evil demons.
Advantage: Smallville

Typical Villains
Smallville: Endless teens mutated by the meteor and possessing various superpowers, including twin Jonathan Taylor Thomases.
Buffy: Endless vampires and demons, including werewolves, monsters in tuxedos, giant snakes, mummies, robots, American Indians, ghosts, Dracula, and puppets.
Advantage: Buffy

Central Love Theme
Smallville: Clark and Lana love each other, but can never get along.
Buffy: A vampire slayer falls in love with a vampire, one who happens to be among the most evil in history but has been cursed with a soul. Their love breaks the curse, changing Angel from love interest into main villain.
Advantage: Buffy.

Winner: Buffy, 4-2
But hey, Buffy kinda dwindled off in the later seasons, so there's still hope for Smallville. I smell rematch!

Genetics is killing me. 2 more hours to study before the midterm, but i can feel my energy evaporating off of my skin. To help get my brain started again, here's a list of the musicians that are currently high on my good list.

(random order)
Beatles
No Doubt
Mariah Carey
Elton John

Ok, i was going to do a top ten or something like that, but my brain cut out about halfway through there, so you'll have to wait to see the rest of that list. Notice my new description. Extra points for anyone who can guess which of the 4 musicians it comes from.

They say time flies when you're having fun, and i used to believe that until recently. I think the saying should be changed to "Time flies by when you're in the quarter system". The days really go fast. It feels like i just got home from school friday looking forward to a 3 day weekend, sat down to close my eyes for a minute, and then woke up and its monday evening and i have to study for midterms. Life needs a remote control with a rewind and fast forward button. But of course, if we had that we wouldnt spend much time in the present would we?

Happy Valentine's Day! 2 days ago? Whatever. Ah well. I say a valentine's day with a steak dinner and hot chocolate isnt too much to complain about.

Spent the day up in Julian. That town reminds me a lot of Smallville, except without kristin kreuk. Good food though.

This morning i cooked myself a healthy breakfast of fried eggs, fried rice, and fried spam. Yum yum. The spam turned out well, but i think i put too much garlic in the rice and overcooked the eggs. And of course i baked more double chocolate cookies for desert (those really dont last very long in this house).

I think my recent interest in cooking may partially stem from work in a twisted, perverted way. The stuff i do in the lab is a lot like cooking actually. The protocols for the things i make are called recipes, and the little room i work in is cleverly called the kitchen. Plus, the kitchen is stocked with sugar, salt, jello, and lots of alcohol!! So, making food is a lot like making agarose plates and buffer solutions, except instead of worrying about making someone's experiment explode, you just eat whatever you make.

My neighbor is playing one of those loud vibrating beat speaker things that people thought were cool back in high school. Its really loud, and i can hear it from inside my house. No windows have shattered yet, so its all good.

For some good clean fun, check this out. Whoo!

Grammy Awards tomorrow!! I think i might watch this one, but chances are ill end up forgetting about it or getting bored with it. Hey Ya!!

For the past few months, calvin has started a habit of sticking his head out from his room and looking into the kitchen whenever we're eating dinner. He always has his usual happy and excited expression, and it was during one such instance that i said to my sister, "Doesn't Calvin have a great smile?". Her response; "Dogs don't smile. He's just opening his mouth the way dogs do."

What a shock. The thought that dogs dont smile. Well, of course dogs smile, especially calvin, who smiles so often his mouth probably hurts from it. So after dismissing my sister's comment in about a nanosecond and deciding that dogs definitely do smile, it occurred to me that while calvin smiles 2/3 of his awake time (the other third is when he's eating or being bitten by sam), sam smiles considerably less. He generally has something of a stoic, serious expression. I really find it interesting how different they are, despite the fact that they're brothers. Calvin, the happy go lucky energetic one, and Sam, the too cool to care guy. Which makes me wonder what all their other brothers and sisters were like. I think there were 5 of them total. It would be fun to someday have a big dog family reunion. "Hey, how's it gonna bro. I havent seen you since we were born. Yeah my master doesnt have any good food either. . ."

Slight warning: this post is really random.

Superbowl was great. Since I know that most of you probably dont want to hear too much more about it, ill just say that it continues the streak of alternating between good games and bad games (this year was a good game, last year was a bad one, the one before last was good, etc.).

The halftime show was decent. None of the last 3 have really compared to the aerosmith / nsync halftime show of 2001 though. That was a really good one.

Recently i've had the strange urge to go back and play a bunch of my old video games. This includes devil may cry, which i still want to beat on dante must die mode. I was able to beat that griffon boss, which was pretty amazing since i could never get more than about a tenth of his life down before. I was quite proud.

Making jello is still fun, but i think my new hobby is going to be baking those store bought cookie recipes. There's a little more hands on stuff involved, and a box lasts for more than one serving (jello just doesnt fill me up).

I've also been burning new CDs recently. This is mostly due to the fact that the sound still doesnt work on my computer so i have no other way of listening to all the cool songs ive got. I made this one cd of classic love songs, which is really good. I was thinking about making a cd with all my rap songs to balance things out. Of course, it would basically be a p diddy, nelly, and will smith cd. Sounds good!!

"The Rock is just motivating his team. Now why don't you go motivate yourself and do about 100 backflips back that way."