So June 19 was my "defense" day and I defended my PhD dissertation. +6 years ago, when I wasn't a believer, I thought it would be the biggest day in my life when I obtain the doctorate status. However, it is amazing how a brand new world view changes how you feel about things. In the eternal perspective that I now have thanks to the Holy Spirit, this is an insignificant thing and every time people asked me how I felt about getting this degree, I had to be honest: Read the rest of this entry »
Wow, it's been ~2 months since the last post!
This time, I have a good reason: I am defending my PhD on June 19th and my dissertation was due on May 29th. All of the PhD stuff has been keeping me busy.
However, I just wanted to at least post this one thing mainly so that I will remember what I recently learned from the 1st book of Samuel.
Morever as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way.
Ever since I read through the Pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus.... Deuteronomy; the first 5 books in the Bible), I always wanted to see a life-size model of the tabernacle. When I read through Psalms, I wanted to more accurately relate to the psalmists who spoke of the holiness of the Lord's presence in the tabernacle. Today, because of what the Lord Jesus has done (died for our sins and rose again!), we can go boldly before the Lord's throne in Heaven. However, it must have been amazing to have the awesome Lord's manifest presence right there in the tabernacle. Read the rest of this entry »
I suppose I should have posted this yesterday, but here it is.
I used to not know what St. Patrick's day was about at all until I watched this VeggieTales episode. Then I bought this book. Yes, you may be having some doubts now about my intelligence and the source of information I post here. I must admit, I haven't done enough background research to confirm the details, but the posted information comes from people that I trust (the book was published by "the Voice of the Martyrs").
He was not called Patrick at birth, but his name was Maewyn Succat. When he was 16 years old, he was abducted by pagans from Ireland. Maewyn was enslaved for 6 years. Read the rest of this entry »
You want to help the so called worst-since-the-great-depression economy? Perhaps here's your chance.
These toilet paper come in 5 colors: black, pink, green, orange and red.
Many other rolls contain 500-100 sheets per roll. Since it's very sensitive information, please don't ask me how I got this information, but we use on average ~200 sheets per day for our household (husband + wife). Let's say the average number of sheets per roll is 300. The cost of toilet paper per day is roughly 20-25 cents a day. If we were using one of these pretty colored toilet paper (say the black ones for $17 per 6 rolls), we would be spending $1.5 ~ 2 every day on toilet paper. Hmmm.
So if you would like to stimulate the economy, you can order the colorful toilet paper below.
Of all the stories we've reported here, this one has to be the biggest so far.
In 2006, Dr. Kent Hovind from Creation Science Evangelism and his wife Ms. Jo Hovind were arrested for bogus charges. Both of them are now in federal prisons separately. And the implications of this case should concern everybody. Read the rest of this entry »
Acetonitrile is an organic solvent that is widely used in organic synthesis and HPLC (high performance liquid chromatography). Because it is one of the few solvents that is practically UV-transparent (does not absorb UV light), it is an excellent solvent for liquid chromatography where the detection is done with UV absorbance.
A major manufacturer of acetonitrile was damaged when hurricane Ike hit Texas. Also apparently China shutdown their production for the 2008 Olympics. As a result, the price is more than doubled at the moment (see the VWR quote below). Read the rest of this entry »
The title of this post is supposed to be shocking, coming out of the mouth (keyboard?) of someone who blogs about Linux. Anyways, to add another excuse to not posting anything for a while, a couple of days ago, I was trying to put in a hard drive in an old desktop computer that is used to as our proxy, web, SFTP, Internet filtering, DHCP, and DNS server. Then as I was pushing on one of those plastic things that fill the space for extra drive expansion, my hand hit something sharp inside. Then I saw my beautiful (?) bone and muscle tissues through a 1-inch laceration on my knuckle! For the first time in my life (since a car accident 18 years ago), I had to go to an emergency room and get the would stitched up.
Now the picture below may not be for everyone (it's not really that bad). I took it with my ancient cell phone in the ER. Read the rest of this entry »
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I am saddened to report that a fellow chemist has died from the injuries she suffered from an accident involving a commonly used reagent in a chemistry lab at UCLA. The reagent is called t-butyllithium and I have used it several times before myself. It is so reactive with water that it reacts with trace moisture in the air, and that reaction being so exothermic, it spontaneously ignites. Read the rest of this entry »
To start off this year, here's an interesting thought:
The only people that have ever made contributions to pro-murder (pro-abortion) policies are the people who were not aborted.
Despite him being ineligible under the US constitution, Mr. Obama has been sworn in as the POTUS. So he really isn't the POTUS legally, but that aside, here is a great pro-life ad from the Catholics.
Yes, every life is precious and has great potential. For we have been created in the image of God. Read the rest of this entry »
So June 19 was my "defense" day and I defended my PhD dissertation. +6 years ago, when I wasn't a believer, I thought it would be the biggest day in my life when I obtain the doctorate status. However, it is amazing how a brand new world view changes how you feel about things. In the eternal perspective that I now have thanks to the Holy Spirit, this is an insignificant thing and every time people asked me how I felt about getting this degree, I had to be honest: Read the rest of this entry » 
Wow, it's been ~2 months since the last post!
Ever since I read through the Pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus.... Deuteronomy; the first 5 books in the Bible), I always wanted to see a life-size model of the tabernacle. When I read through Psalms, I wanted to more accurately relate to the psalmists who spoke of the holiness of the Lord's presence in the tabernacle. Today, because of what the Lord Jesus has done (died for our sins and rose again!), we can go boldly before the Lord's throne in Heaven. However, it must have been amazing to have the awesome Lord's manifest presence right there in the tabernacle.
You want to help the so called worst-since-the-great-depression economy? Perhaps here's your chance.
Of all the stories we've reported here, this one has to be the biggest so far.
The title of this post is supposed to be shocking, coming out of the mouth (keyboard?) of someone who blogs about Linux. Anyways, to add another excuse to not posting anything for a while, a couple of days ago, I was trying to put in a hard drive in an old desktop computer that is used to as our 
I am saddened to report that a fellow chemist has died from the injuries she suffered from an accident involving a commonly used reagent in a chemistry lab at UCLA. The reagent is called