Liam Neeson

In reference to his infamous line "I don't know who you are but I will find you and I will kill you"

Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!

People are awesome

So I'm not sure who these people are or how you even get into trying some of these students but they certainly live the YOLO (you only live once) live style.

The Arena District

So this week has been a pretty solid week for me. I have been productive in lab, I got a good grade on my exam, watched some Champions League, and tonight I finally went to downtown Columbus (aka the Arena District) for a friend in the programs birthday. I've been to Short North a few times (a younger/hip neighborhood on High Street) and I went to the North Market when my parents were here but this was my first glance at downtown. Obviously Columbus isn't the biggest city in the country but the downtown is fairly big and I've heard lots of good things about the social scene down there. With a few guys in my program we went to Brothers which is a restaurant/bar down there. It seemed like a cool place. The area seemed nice the lofts in the area seemed awesome and it looked like on the weekends it would be a very lively place. Although after this short respite my semester will get very busy again I look forward to checking out the Arena District in the summer.

Not your typical Tuesday

So today seemed like it would be a fairly normal Tuesday. Woke up at 7 to go swim before going into lab. Went through my daily routine of lab work and homework while bouncing to main campus and back for classes and seminar. Overall not much was different but two big news things change the whole feel of the day. The first was known as today is the President's State of the Union address. After the election, especially in Ohio, I am pretty politically exhausted but I have decided to watch as it will come on in a few minutes and I finished my take home exam already. I think we can all recognize the downsides of partisan bickering but I wish all of them the best regardless of party or political belief as they all attempt to tackle the issues facing our country. The second event was the Pope resigning. As a Catholic I am fairly aware of the procedures that go into choosing a new Pope but not in over 700 years has a Pope resigned. I think this is likely the new trend we will see in the future. With modern medicine the Pope can now stay alive while in poor health for a very long time but would be unfit to serve or make any real decisions. It's really something rare when people step down from positions of power but I likewise wish him the best and his replacement as well.

Personal note from ER doctor written after woman’s death goes viral

This is a touching little story I found on Yahoo news.

http://news.yahoo.com/personal-note-from-er-doctor-written-after-woman’s-death-goes-viral-000236336.html

Champions League Returns

So since the NFL/NCAA Football are over, I'm not that into hockey anymore or basketball and all the leagues in soccer seem to be decided there's really only only sporting competition for me to follow (and OSU tennis but they lost this weekend). The Champions League is a Europeans soccer tournament between the best teams in the European leagues and now they are down to the last 16. Each round pits a home and away match and the winner on goal aggregate advances. This round (which has some games today and tomorrow as well as next week) has some very interesting match ups. Manchester United play Real Madrid which is fascinating because Real Madrid star Christiano Ronaldo used to play for Man United. Barcelona play AC Milan which is two traditional European powers playing early. Paris St. Germain, similar to the New York Yankees, play Valencia which is a team that sells its best players every year to pay off their debt but are still somehow a top team every year. There are several other good ones as well. My point is that today and tomorrow around 4 o'clock I will try to clear up my schedule to watch because if I don't there are really no sporting events for me to follow now. I will try to get some of my take-home exam done before this afternoon so I don't feel guilty about watching.

"The Ceiling Can't Hold Us"

So the last few months everybody has been going off about this Macklemore guy. His song "Thrift Shop" is pretty catchy but other than that I just figured he was a One-Hit-Wonder type of guy. Turns out I was wrong. I ended up downloading CD and found one of the best songs I've heard in awhile.

"Can't Hold Us" pretty much has everything I like in modern music. Well I like rap and dubstep they tend to either get too repetitive or lose the musicality and just focus on the beat. Here you have a guy rapping with a live band behind him and to top it all off an old school barber-shop type singer. The melody and the beat are fantastic and the bridge is pretty solid as well. Personally I like the trumpet and trombone in it. It actually doesn't sound quite as good on the recording as it does in this live video so I might download this and replace my version on iTunes. We will see. Enjoy the video.

CBS 60 Minutes videos about Barcelona

They are really good. Check it out!

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50138328n

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50138631n

No hope for the human race

So another good facebook page "No Hope for the Human Race" has some pretty good photos. I woke up to this one this morning.