Well its finally fall and today was my birthay. School is in full swing. CHS golf won states yesterday. Thats sweet, i look forward to defending our title again next year.

hmm

So lets see, what is there to post about... Def not the Red Sox who continue to suck worse than the yankees. How about work. So I now work in the bagroom at the CCC. Its a sweet deal. I get paid to drive carts around all day with minor club washing scattered throughout. Yesterday I got to drive a reporter from the local paper around to take pics. Fun fun.

poor pluto

Well today it happened... we went from our nine planets to eight. Pluto has been dumped, demoted from planetary status today. Now how will we remember the names of the planets? My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Noodles? (or any other food starting with n) No more pluto... Poor fellow, how would you feel being called a human and one day scientists decided to demote you to a neanderthal because you have hair and eat squirrels and rabbits?

Hey whats happening. Golf team tryouts were this week and now the fun begins. You can check out the standings at www.concordmodel.org/beta. Lets see, with school steadily approaching it looks like its back to the grindstone for me. Oh boy.

I havent posted in a while. The weather for the last week has been beautiful. I read an article today in the paper about solar energy. It sounds more feasible every day. For 20-40k you can have enough solar energy to power most of your home and energy companies are creating ways to work with this to give many benefits. You can remain tied into utility power and then instead of buying the expensive storage batteries you can give power to the company when you have excess and they give you credit for when you need power. Not bad. I actually think that BP's closing the nations largest oil field is good, perhaps more people will be forced to change.

see ya

I dont have much time this morning, I'm off to a program at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ for a couple weeks. It should be fun, my roommate seems to be a cool kid. Its about all of the career options in science more specifically engineering. Covering many fields from bioengineering to robotics, it should give me some idea of whats out there for me.

So yesterday I saw An Inconvenient Truth, the documentary by Al Gore to save our planet. It was actually quite enjoyable I though, it made you think. My brother didn't like it though so its not for everyone. It is worth watching even if you arent a liberal democrat (which I most certainly am not). It brings into play the connections between CO2 emissions and temperature. There are some neat graphics that demonstrate this. Gore is right, we do need to do something.

Superman returns

Yesterday I saw Superman Returns. I wasn't sure what to expect, the trailer looked pretty good. It didn't do the movie justice. It was a very enjoyable film. The effects were good although the flying was a bit artificial. It doesnt matter, great movie.

WOW

Today I learned something I found very facinating from reading some of Richard P. Feynman's lectures. Absolute zero doesn't work with current quantum mechanics- it would violate the uncertainty principle.