China Pollution update

Yay: To clean air, aid climate, China looks to end polluters' perks.

I think central china could host some pretty huge solar farms. With the right technology, products, and education, solar power might be able to displace coal as the main source of energy.

Time Capsule

The University of Washington is preparing a time capsule.

The new capsule will be filled with digital media, carrying images of graffiti and video and focusing on "communication from a global perspective," said Coma Te, a 20-year-old senior who was one of six students who created the new capsule. - Komo TV

Digital media? Will people still have the technology to play h.264 files 50 years from now?

Biodiesel

I drove behind a biodiesel Volkswagen Jetta today.

It smelled like a French Fry on Fire.

China Pollution

The only thing preventing me from hopping onto a plane and making a long-term excursion to China is the extreme pollution problem they have.

And oddly, that's the huge motivation to go as well -- to bring the rampant environmental disaster under control.

I was partially correct!

It seems Dr. Baily of Northwestern University has provided supporting evidence for the hypothesis I presented concerning gender and attractiveness.

Whether women describe themselves as straight or lesbian, “Their sexual arousal seems to be relatively indiscriminate — they get aroused by both male and female images,” Dr. Bailey said. “I’m not even sure females have a sexual orientation..."

- The New York Times (user: nobugs, pass: nobugs)

Philosophical future musings

I was talking to Pravin Bhat the other day about how the graduate school vs industry question factored into my future. He asked me, "What do you want 5 years from now?"

Me: "I want to not want."

Pro: "Niceeeee! That was excellent! I want to not want. Hahaha..."

This reminds me of my first year Mandarin final in middle school. One of the questions was "What do you want to do next week?" Lacking the vocabulary required to understand what my teacher said, I retrieved, from my memorized Mandarin repertoire, the answer that shared the most similar-sounding syllables,

"I want to go to the bathroom."

Hilarity ensued, and I got partial credit.

Mistaken Identity

My stomach was growling and I thought it was someone calling me on Skype.