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May 15, 2004
Christmas in May
It would appear that I'm falling into a habit of posting only about three times a week, which is pretty sad. Some interesting stuff has happened since my last post, so here's a quick summary. On Wednesday I went up to the Twins-Mariners game at the Metrodome with Al, Jolene, Joni, Mike Phillips and Josh Jacobson. It was student night, so upper deck general admission tickets were only $3, and it was dollar dome dog night to boot. The seats we got in the upper deck of left field weren't bad either. The game was pretty good too, as the Brad Radke took a shutout into the 9th inning, leading the Twins to a 4-3 victory. Some of us physics people are hoping to go back to another Twins game before everyone goes across the country for their various research internships in late May, that'd be fun.
Thursday was pretty much taken up by getting my Picasso presentation ready for art class on Friday, which actually went pretty well. I also had my Japanese oral interview/final on Friday morning, where we had to have a 10-minute conversation with Sakuragi-sensee entirely in Japanese. I definitely blanked out a few times, but I think I recovered enough to get a decent grade.
Friday evening was also the annual frisbee game between SPS, the physics club, and MCS, the math/comp sci department. We were all pumped up to defend the Olin Frisbee (the trophy that goes to the winner of this annual grudge match), but MCS apparently was all fired up about the game too, because unlike last year, they had a whole ton of people show up, three of which are actually on the Gustavus Ultimate Frisbee team. They jumped out to a quick 6-1 lead, but then we fought back and actually started playing quite well. We started dominating the game and stymieing MCS, but the hole we dug was just too big, and we wound up falling short 11-8. At least we made a game of it, because for awhile it looked like we were gonna get blown out.
After the frisbee game it was time for the annual Physics Christmas in May party at Al's house. That was pretty fun too, a bunch of us were hanging out (and not talking about physics for a change!), playin' foosball, pool and blackjack, and it was cool getting to watch the T-Wolves game with a few other fans too.
Today's been a homework day, except for when a bunch of us went to Zach &Jolene's recital this afternoon. They both played well (Zach on violin, Jolene on viola), and it was an enjoyable concert. I know they had both been stressing out a bit over it recently, so now they're both really glad to be done. Great job Zach & Jolene!
And in response to the controversy that my last post generated, I stand by what I said in my original post and in my comment that was in response to Josh. Let me reaffirm that any attempt to say that there is a moral equivalence between what a few American soldiers did in abusing some Iraqi prisoners is offensive to me. I still haven't seen or listened to the video of the Al-Qaeda execution of Nick Berg, but that doesn't change my feelings about how repulsive that act was. It is ridiculous to assert that the prisoner abuse photos are to blame for the slaughter of Nick Berg -- it's the five terrorist subhumans in that room that are to blame. And all this hand-wringing over what we can do to make the terrorists not hate us anymore is also totally backward thinking. They hate us for who we are, and that will never change.
Posted by Jared at May 15, 2004 11:59 PM