5000 blog views!

Today I received my 5000th blog views! Thank you to everyone for viewing. I have been trying to post but the multimedia upload has been defective lately so I will try to post some other things for your viewing pleasure. As for personal life updates, today is my last day of class before spring break begins. Spring break in grad school isn't quite the same (no Florida tennis trip) as I'll be sticking around and working through Wednesday but then I will head back to Coe for a long weekend which happens to also be St. Pattrick's day. I actually have a lot of homework to get done so hopefully my motivation will return which left me after the half semester of classes finished. Again thanks for viewing everyone I appreciate it. Even the haters.
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Winter storms!

So last night I went to trivia night (did you know Martin Van Buren was the first President actually born in the United States? I picked Andrew Jackson incorrectly) in Grandview with some of my classmates. It was a lot of fun (new tradition) but this so called "snow-pocalypse" hit while I was still there. A 10-15 minute drive turned into a 45 minute one as I was strolling down Olengtangy River Road without even putting my foot on the gas pedal. Seriously Columbus drivers it was not that bad. Turned out to be just a few inches. Anyway I snapped this photo of my courtyard when I got back.

Attempt at IM sports #2 canned

So my program, MCDB, tried to make a co-ed indoor soccer team. It looked like a lot of fun games once a week in the ARC but unfortunately I was unaware of the level of enthusiasm at this school for IM sports. I tried to sign up after lunch on the day of registration and found to my dismay the league was already full and the waiting list was already 10 teams long. Since registration closed and the league was established it looks like once again I have been thwarted in my attempt to play Rec Sports (refer to my failure to previously join the tennis team for more information). This summer I swear we will get a team together. There's also rumored to be a kickball league we might be joining if anyone in the area is interested...

18 people who are about to have a really bad day

Saw this earlier on facebook and I cannot stop laughing.
http://www.pleated-jeans.com/2012/12/28/18-people-who-are-about-to-have-a-really-bad-day/

The Oscars/Academy Awards

So I caught the last half hour of the Oscars (Academy Awards?) although I am very confused what to call them now. I thought I had all the award ceremonies sorted out but apparently I do not. Anyone my point is I caught the last half hour of this award show about movies after I threw in the towel studying for my test. I was pretty pleased to see I managed to catch the only 3 awards I really was interested in which were best actor, best actress, and best picture. I was pretty pleased with each of the results. Jennifer Lawerence won Best Actress for Silver Lining's Playbook which I saw last Sunday and thought was a good movie and a good choice for the award. Daniel Day Lewis won Best Actor for Lincoln which I'm sure we all saw coming. He was very good in the movie and it was unfortunate for some other great performances this year that they happened to be on the same year. He also had a very funny acceptance speech joking about having originally been cast as Margaret Thatcher or having to convince Spielberg that the movie shouldn't be a musical. The result that pleased me the most was Argo winning Best Picture. I have seen it twice now and I think the movie is fantastic. Obviously it isn't 100% accurate as movies never are but I don't really see the need for all the blogger haters out there on the movie. The movie takes place in a rough time in our history and it has a fantastic story and lot's of drama. Honestly you know it's a great movie when you know the ending to the story but the story still keeps you on the edge of your seat the entire time it's happening. It's also nice to see a movie in the day and age of blood and gore (example Django Unchained) that can have high drama but really no violent scenes. Very pleased to see Ben Afleck win this award and George Clooney was involved along with some other great people. I have tremendous respect for both Ben Afleck and George Clooney not just for their acting and producing abilities but the charitable work they do around the world is just tremendous and they set a great example for other influential people to do the same.
I have the time to write this in depth analysis because I am now done with my test and all my cell lines have managed to die :( so I am out of work for the day. I will begin remaking them tomorrow so hopefully I have not been set too far back but needless to say I was not very pleased.
I hope you all are well. And go see Argo if you haven't seen it! I also recommend Lincoln and hope to see Beasts of the Southern Wild (also has a tremendous back story with a young writer/producer and a very low budget making) and Flight with one of my favorites Denzel Washington in it.

More pics of cells

Took these this morning. The green ones are infected and I made everything else glow red. Aren't they beautiful ;)

Foods I Cook pt 1

Part one of my "Foods I Cook" series is one of my favorite. Swedish pancakes are essentially thinner pancakes but thicker than crepes (and much better). The recipe is simple but I make them and then roll them up and put cinnamon/sugar, a little agave, and some fresh fruit which this time was strawberries and blueberries inside. Needless to say it was delicious.

Insane body weight exercises

So earlier in the year I got a book called "Convict Conditioning" and started working out using only body weight exercises. The book taught a progression of body weight exercises based off the push up, pull up, leg raise, squat, bridge, and hand stand push up. I did it for about 2 and a half months and progressed a lot but ultimately I went back to doing some weight lifting and recently I have been swimming in the mornings as well. I came across this insane youtube video of a guy doing 43 (not 44) crazy body weight exercises that I would like to share. For the record I have done 19 of them and think I can do or quickly learn to do 5 others. My only criticism of the video is the missing hand stand push ups or bridges but I have no doubt he would rock those as well.
I think my favorite part of the video is the super fit looking people in the background looking on in awe.

Changing the feel of the blog

So lately I've been posting a lot of online stuff and less about my personal life. This has gotten some good reviews but I want to get more personal again. While my daily life gets pretty monotonous in grade school I've decided I will start some miniature series. These will be things like "places I've been", "food I like to cook", "music I like" followed by photos/audio/video, and a short synopsis. I will also try to do some more introspective posts but I like to keep it all positive (online and offline). It's gonna be big! Also if you are an advertiser stop spamming my blog. It's lame.
That's all for now!

A 15 year old creates a way to screen for pancreatic cancer

So pancreatic cancer has notoriously been one of the most deadly forms of cancer due to its inability to be detected early and its metastasis in early forms. This 15 year old boy has apparently discovered an incredibly cheap screen to detect pancreatic cancer at early stages. Here is his story.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnnosta/2013/02/01/cancer-innovation-and-a-boy-named-jack/