So much for keeping a blog... Although should my move to NYC be successful, I think I may start this up hardcore. Stay tuned kiddies :)

MUST READ, READ THIS NOW.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/03/science/03arsenic.html?hp

Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part 1

This is the Empire Strikes Back of the HP franchise. I won't spoil anything unlike the nattering girls leaving during the credits who said something crucial from Part 2... FREAKING A' I was sooooo angry about what they said, not just a small spoiler but a HUGE critical one. In any case, back to the movie at hand. I was sold out of the midnight showing but I saw it tonight at 7PM, still opening day, still in a sold out, packed theater =) I made myself a custom Ravenclaw crest and robe. I'm impressed with how the movie was able to pull EVERY single actor and actress from the past movies and give them roles in this film no matter how small. Continuity is a huge deal for me so it was nice to see all of the old cast return to make this a truly awesome movie. Professor Umbridge stole part of the movie again as she did with Order Of The Phoenix. I was pleasantly surprised and thought of it as OOTP Part 2, LOL. Anyways, go see this movie, I think I may again only in IMAX next time, YEAHH!

Personal Twitter aka Intro to Narcissism 101

I have a twitter now.
http://twitter.com/#!/vjcheng

Narcissism Levels are at an all time high. headDESK

Confessions Of A Kidult Dino-Dork

So I decided to breathe some new life into my long neglected blogger. How appropriate it is then to start with this illustration of one of the earliest dinosaurs, Plateosaurus quenstedti, and also the only complete dinosaur at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ). I remember the first time I visited the MCZ back in 2006 when I snuck up at the end of the year to attend Dr. Farish A. Jenkins Jr. lecture on Tiktaalik roseae.Dinosaurs have long held a special place in my heart despite how cliche that sounds. I think it has to do with the fact these magnificent creatures once ruled our planet for a staggering ~160 million years. It always amuses me when some religious fanatic denounces evolution and places "man" on a pedestal such that the only reason for our existence is because of some omnipresent divine being. I'll end with this quote,

"Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system- with all these exalted powers- Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin." Charles Darwin

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