They say everyday is a new adventure but I never really bought it until I started taking time to THINK about my daily events. And today...today was another day that brought yet another adventure into my life.

It was a regular ol' summer Wednesday for me (ok not really, but whatever) - I had spent most of the day in the lab (big ups to Dr. Leach!) and had headed to Farmer's Market to kick it with my dogs. Out of the blue (or was it the yellow?) I received a phone call from my good friend the Hater 4 Life Ajay Kamat. Of course, being the good FRIEND (see the common theme these days?) I am I picked up the call. Apparently his lease was ending and since he was working for the man back down in the Bay he needed me to finish cleanin up some crap in his house.

After getting EXTREMELY frustrated with my circuits homework, I took the trip over to his abandoned house at 10:30 PM. Bad idea. First, I wasn't properly dressed - I wore a cutoff, shorts, and flip flops not thinking that I had to move crap. Whatever. I had no troubles traveling in the middle of the night to a house in the middle of nowhere. Then I got to the house and realized it was dark...VERY DARK. Then I realized that no one was home...NO ONE. I almost wet my pants in fear. Luckily for me, I had a flashlight in my car so I grabbed that and proceeded into the house from hell.

I swear I felt like I was in Resident Evil - traveling through an abandoned house with zombies waiting for me around every corner. Except instead of a shotgun I was armed with...a flashlight. Yay....



I got through the moving shit pretty quickly (Thank you Jeebus!). Before departing, I took one last look around the house finding a monitor, some cleaning supplies, some garbage, and a homeless guy. Everything was norma...

"Wait a second" I said to myself. "Self, those cleaning supplies, don't belong there."

Then, the guy's arm started moving, he got up, and rushed me with a knife he pulled out of his pocket and...

Ok, Ok none of that really happened but I was still scared shitless. Abandoned house, middle of the night, BY MYSELF!! Well, at the end of the night, I had to face my fears and jump into a dark house with a mere flashlight. Amongst the darkness, there was light...or somethin like that. This all seems like some kind of life lesson on the lines of - to face your fears, you must jump in and go with the flow. Fear not for that which is not understood or explored, merely learn from it all and start to see it in a new fashion. Damn, I'm as philosophical as Aristotle!

All this adventuring kinda makes me a real man, huh? I bet this kinda shit would drive the ladies wild! Now I just gotta get one to read my blog...sigh...

Track of the Day: Linkin Park - Krwling (Reanimaion Remix)

Due to lack of creativity and depression from my engineering class, I've decided to not share anything about my life today and put in a plug for my brother and one of his blogs (Yes, plural - what a loser).

As you all know, the NBA draft is tomorrow with our home team The Golden State Warriors choosing #9 in the draft some mad crazy blogging needs to be done.

So check out the hyphiest blog out there - Golden State of mind . Live bloggin (whatever the hell that is) is promised tomorrow during the draft so hit it up and be prepared to go stupid doo doo dumb dumb.

Track of the Day: Lil Bow Wow - Basketball

That man is my idol...I wanna grow up to be like him. He's got DOPE lyrics.


Bow Wow]
Now basketball is my favorite sport
I like the way they dribble up and down the court
I keep it so fresh on the microphone
I like no interruption when the game is on
I like slam-dunks that take me to the hoop
My favorite play is the alley-oop
I like the pick-n-roll
I like the give-n-go
And its basketball Bow Wow lets go

::Chorus::Fundisha::
They're playing basketball(Uh,all around the world)
We love that basketball(Yeah, to the beat y'all)
They're playing basketball
We love that basketball

[Bow Wow]
Yeah, yo
I got the rock in my hands
There ain’t no tellin what i’m gonna do wit it
When i got possession i’m gonna have to fool wit it
I might cross you up and fake one way
Turn around and hit you wit the MJ fade-away
I throwin down passes like J-Kidd
Taking cats to the rack
And I’m dunkin over them like T-Mac
When I’m in the paint I play wit that Alonzo style
I’m like Darius cuz I can shoot 2 miles

Crying quietly to myself, I opened my new ENG 100 (Circuits 2) book today and began reviewing all the concepts I learned in ENG 17 (Circuits 1). Out of all the engineering classes I have take, these two are definetly the worst. Not only do I not understand a thing in the classes, but they are EXTREMELY boring. To lighten my next 6 weeks I bring...ENGINEERING HUMOR!!!

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Q: What do engineers use for birth control?
A: Their personalities.

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Three engineers are riding down the road in a car. Suddenly, the car begins to develop trouble. It's sputtering and it sounds like it's going to stall.

The first engineer is a chemical engineer. He says, "It could be something in the fuel line. Lets put an additive into the gas and maybe that will take care of the problem."

The second engineer is an electrical engineer. She says, "It could be something in the electrical system. Let's replace the wires and the distributor cap. Maybe that will take care of the problem."

The third engineer is a software engineer from Microsoft. He says, "It could be that we've too many windows open. Let's close all the windows, turn off the car, then restart the car and open all the windows again. Maybe that will take care of the problem."

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Q: What is the integral of d(cabin) / cabin?
A: Houseboat. (The integral of d(cabin) / cabin is log (cabin) + C, which equals a houseboat.)

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An atom walks into a bar and asks if anyone has seen his electron. The bartender says no, and asks the atom if he's sure his electron is missing.
Yes, says the atom, I'm positive

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Here's the reason I never bake cookies for myself...the recipe looks like this to me

Why Engineers don't cook...

Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe:

Ingredients:
1.) 532.35 cm3 gluten
2.) 4.9 cm3 NaHCO3
3.) 4.9 cm3 refined halite
4.) 236.6 cm3 partially hydrogenated tallow triglyceride
5.) 177.45 cm3 crystalline C12H22O11
6.) 177.45 cm3 unrefined C12H22O11
7.) 4.9 cm3 methyl ether of protocatechuic aldehyde
8.) Two calcium carbonate-encapsulated avian albumen-coated protein
9.) 473.2 cm3 theobroma cacao
10.) 236.6 cm3 de-encapsulated legume meats (sieve size #10)

Directions:

To a 2-L jacketed round reactor vessel (reactor #1) with an overall heat transfer coefficient of about 100 Btu/F-ft2-hr, add ingredients one, two and three with constant agitation. In a second 2-L reactor vessel with a radial flow impeller operating at 100 rpm, add ingredients four, five, six, and seven until the mixture is homogenous. To reactor #2, add ingredient eight, followed by three equal volumes of the homogenous mixture in reactor #1. Additionally, add ingredient nine and ten slowly, with constant agitation. Care must be taken at this point in the reaction to control any temperature rise that may be the result of an exothermic reaction. Using a screw extrude attached to a #4 nodulizer, place the mixture piece-meal on a 316SS sheet (300 x 600 mm). Heat in a 460K oven for a period of time that is in agreement with Frank & Johnston's first order rate expression (see JACOS, 21, 55), or until golden brown. Once the reaction is complete, place the sheet on a 25C heat-transfer table, allowing the product to come to equilibrium.

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I think I have poor humor.

Track of the Day: Gorillaz - Dirty Harry

I finally took a trip down to Santa Cruz to see my good FRIENDS Miles, Kacie, and Nick. It was good to see them again and to do a little "adventuring" again. I'll explain more about that later when I get the pics but first...

I guess Kingdom Hearts 2 made start thinking about friendship, hearts, and happiness and all that warm crap. For a while during the school year, it was my personal goal to be a "loser" and get 200 friends from UC Davis on Facebook. Ya ya, real cool. Of course I never searched for them; they all came to me. Anywho, with all the latests events in my life, KH2, and all the contemplating i've been doing, I've realized who are my true friends and what it means to be a friend. And ya gotta ask yourself, are there 215+ people that really got your back? Of course not. People are shady, greedy, and selfish. I'm not sayin I'm bitter - do your thing to be happy. But if you don't got my back when it all goes down, you ain't my friend.

I've decided to make cuts off the friends roster. It's easy to screen out the obvious ones - the ones I can't even recognize or the ones that I met once at a party or something - they're all out. The ones I don't even like - out. But how should I screen the "fake" friends?

Simple. Most of the facebook whores are always on guard for people's birthdays - they find the way to justify they're fakefriendships with people by writing a birthday post on someone's wall. Hence, I'm gonnna change my birthday on facebook and terminate anyone that posts a message on my wall, I figure if you're my REAL friend you'd know my birthday...it's Jan 1st...how can u forget?

Now if this shit isn't funny...I don't know what is. Mwahahahhaa.

Track of the Day: 50 Cent feat. Olivea - Best Friend (Remix)

It's got nothin to do with friendship...I'm jus somehow bumpin 50 Cent.

I am officially a loser.

Ya ya, I know what you all are wondering...what was it that finally tipped me off? I spent the last HOUR of my life playing this...



BY MYSELF.


PUZZLE MODE.



ROUND 33.




4000 MILLION KAJILLION ZILLION POINTS.



BY MYSELF.


I'm gonna go cry now and hope I don't turn into the 40 year old virgin...


Track of the day: Gnarlz Barkley - Crazy

Let's take a few seconds to contemplate the first few lyrics of the song...

I remember when
I remember
I remember when I lost my miiiiiind

At face value, it would seem as though I wasted 30 hours of my life playing Kingdom Hearts 2. In fact, after telling most people (ok fine EVERYONE I tell) that I played an action RPG that featured Donald, Goofy, King Mickey, Aladdin, Ariel, Simba, and all the other Disney characters I quickly get laughed at. Then, I show them the game...and I get laughed at even more. But as with everything else in life, Kingdom Hearts 2 cannot be judged face value.



As a game on an ex-next-gen system, KH2 boasts AMAZING graphics, voiceovers, and presentation as a whole. The game follows the Sora, the main character from the first game, as he travels with Donald Duck and Goofy in search of Sora's friends Riku and Kairi and King Mickey Mouse. Each Disney world is beautifully captured from the bazaar of Agrabah to the jungles of the Pride Lands. The game is quite reminiscent of my childhood and its really cool to travel back to all the old places that I only imagined to be in as a child. The battles, although often a simple case of button mashing of X or triangle, are all unique in their own fashions as Sora has been given the ability to perform "Reaction" commands in which Sora performs a theatrical move to damage the enemy. Once the boss has been damaged, you often find yourself saying "Cooooooool."


Although your posse is the annoying Goofy and the even more annoying Donald, KH 2 is not a child's game or a game intended for the weak hearted (Sorry sorry, bad joke). The game struggles with the philosophical concepts of good and evil, light and darkness, duality, existence, friendship, love, and the role of the heart. If you're looking for a good way to waste some time, relive your childhood, and THINK...play and FINISH KH2.

As Mickey said in the last 20 minutes of the game, "His heart has spoken. He has no choice but to follow it."

Track of the Day: "A Whole New World" - The Aladdin Soundtrack (hahahhahaha)

Today, the writers from "A word from the R Dizzle" bring you something new...something unique...A BOOK REVIEW!

Herman Hesse, a German with a brown mentality, has always been one of my favorite authors. All of his classics - Narcissus and Goldmund, Steppenwolf, The Glass Bead Game - have been beautifully written and have inspired readers from all around to ditch the confines of their contemporary societies and to venture onto their own paths through life. However, Hesse's best came in 1922 when he traveled to India (shotouts to the motherland!) and wrote Siddhartha.

Hesse's Siddartha is loosely based on the story of the Buddha, and by loosely I mean tightly, and by tightly I mean read the book. In the novel, the protagonist, Siddhartha, leaves his home to search for the answers. He begins by leading a contemplative life, then quickly rejects it as it poses nothing new for him. He then follows with a life of desires - full of money, lust, and greed. After rejecting that life, Siddhartha finds himself by a river...where his life finally begins.

To all those bored with their summer breaks, Siddhartha is a quick read (150 pages) and is really easy to follow and get into. On my third reading, I finally realized that every section contains something valuable. I once thought that the book did not become significant until the very end, but every page, every word, is placed with signficance.

The message - Follow your own path and let the light from within guide you.

Track of the day: Talvin Singh - Butterfly

For years, I have been cryng about my computer. My PowerMac G5 has one of the best processors on the market (64 bit like what!) but it mad problems when I first got it. The video card was defected - I couldn't receive a signal from the video card when I tried turning it on. Man ATI is shady...AND my damn computer came with only 256 Megs of RAM. Best processor with a shady video card and no RAM...my life sucked.

At first these little problems didn't matter, I could slip by with just using iChat, Safari, iCal, iTunes, and Word with minimal slow down. But soon I hit my 3rd year and I had to do crazy progs on MATLAB for all my BME classes (whoa...I'ma nerd) and the shit took hours to run. That is when I knew it had to be done...i had to find RAM!

I took a trip to my favorite Asian/South Asian spot - Fry's (not the wack double arches). I copped the RAM and a new video card (Damn ATI), went home and popped the shit. The video card gave a signal...YES! I clicked the "About This Mac" section...2.25 GB DDR SDRAM...YES! It was too good to be true - 10x the amount of RAM! I quickly started up MATLAB (I do mean quickly), ran a crazy script and BAM! 2 seconds later I saw my Fourier Transform graphs. Hoooooray!!


Here I am a few days later realizing my computer is dope. This is the way it should be...I mean damn, my G5 is faster than I am in be..nevermind.


Track of the Day: Talvin Singh - Light

It's been a long time...it's been a long time coming...it's life or death for me man...but you know, there's no turning back now...this is what I AM...

Ok, enough Nas. My crazy 3rd year in college kept me away from my blog and now that I have more time (hopefully), I'm going to be hitting this back up. Besides, I figure my life is interesting enough to share with the world and now that I have R Dizzle fans all across the country thanks to Ali Minhaj 2 (big ups to Hasan, Imran, and Sumair!) I gotta give em what they want - ME!

The stories will begin tomorrow, but for now, enjoy the revamped site, and the newest additions...

Track of the Day: Nas feat. Puff Daddy - "Hate me Now"