Secret concert contest

So last night after I got home from Kung Fu, there was a message in my inbox from the 30 Seconds to Mars team about a secret show to be held in NY tonight. We were to send in our email response if we wanted to go, and the first people who sent in their responses would get info on when and where. Keeping in the tradition of never winning anything ever, I didn't win this one, either. So I am at home, already showered and in pajamas and wondering what to have for dinner. It's just as well, because it was such short notice and I would have been there all night and wouldn't get home until like 4 AM probably and would have to miss work tomorrow with no one to cover for me. And I really do need the money pretty seriously. But still, a secret show, with only a select few? That promised to be totally awesome. So instead, I guess I'll put on my rags and sweep the cinders. ;) I really need a fairy godmother.

No, but seriously, I'm 33; I'm not supposed to be skipping off work and randomly running off to the city to go see a band totally out of the blue and stuff like this anyway. I have to fix my car and my hard drive and pay off the new hard drive. I have classes to pay off and bills and debts and whatnots. So this whole thing was crazy. I'm going to chill out tonight, eat some ice cream, and wait for the pictures and reviews from the people who did get to go. Also, I'm going to try to see them twice next month, so I have no room to complain.

It's been raining all day, and thus beginneth the autumn rains. It's not supposed to let up until Sunday. At least it won't be like last year when it rained for like eleven days straight or something crazy like that.

Secret concert contest

So last night after I got home from Kung Fu, there was a message in my inbox from the 30 Seconds to Mars team about a secret show to be held in NY tonight. We were to send in our email response if we wanted to go, and the first people who sent in their responses would get info on when and where. Keeping in the tradition of never winning anything ever, I didn't win this one, either. So I am at home, already showered and in pajamas and wondering what to have for dinner. It's just as well, because it was such short notice and I would have been there all night and wouldn't get home until like 4 AM probably and would have to miss work tomorrow with no one to cover for me. And I really do need the money pretty seriously. But still, a secret show, with only a select few? That promised to be totally awesome. So instead, I guess I'll put on my rags and sweep the cinders. ;) I really need a fairy godmother.

No, but seriously, I'm 33; I'm not supposed to be skipping off work and randomly running off to the city to go see a band totally out of the blue and stuff like this anyway. I have to fix my car and my hard drive and pay off the new hard drive. I have classes to pay off and bills and debts and whatnots. So this whole thing was crazy. I'm going to chill out tonight, eat some ice cream, and wait for the pictures and reviews from the people who did get to go. Also, I'm going to try to see them twice next month, so I have no room to complain.

It's been raining all day, and thus beginneth the autumn rains. It's not supposed to let up until Sunday. At least it won't be like last year when it rained for like eleven days straight or something crazy like that.

RHIC

So for a while I've been a big fan of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Lab. (It's the hugest RHIC at this time, but rumor has it CERN's one is going to be even bigger. IIRC, didn't Dan Brown write in Angels and Demons that CERN already had one?) So anyway, I am tiny part science geek, though I don't often talk about it because I don't know enough to talk well, and that science geek part of me loves the RHIC and loves the fact that it is on Long Island.

The hippie in me, though, who likes everything to be all natural all of the time etc., is terrificallly afraid of the RHIC and doesn't think that there should even be one. Do we really need to be messing around like this? says Earth Mother Hippie.

Science geek says, STFU! They can make a black hole!

Earth Mother hippie points to the paragraph on that page where it says, Hey, look, the RHIC works, because it didn't destroy the Earth like it could have! She points to where it says that the RHIC could have torn the fabric of space and time and could have formed a strangelet which would turn all matter into a mass of quarks.

Science geek laughs in Earth Mother Hippie's face because she thinks, What a way to go! And quarks are like the best matter ever!

Earth Mother Hippie points to the bottom of that page where it says that some have hypothesized that strangelets were responsible for some earthquakes, and earthquakes are never good.

Science Geek's jaw hits the floor.

All of me thinks that Long Island is the most interesting place in the entire world. There are just parts of me that disagree why it is so interesting, and when they fight, they fight violently and the rest of me can't sleep.

RHIC

So for a while I've been a big fan of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Lab. (It's the hugest RHIC at this time, but rumor has it CERN's one is going to be even bigger. IIRC, didn't Dan Brown write in Angels and Demons that CERN already had one?) So anyway, I am tiny part science geek, though I don't often talk about it because I don't know enough to talk well, and that science geek part of me loves the RHIC and loves the fact that it is on Long Island.

The hippie in me, though, who likes everything to be all natural all of the time etc., is terrificallly afraid of the RHIC and doesn't think that there should even be one. Do we really need to be messing around like this? says Earth Mother Hippie.

Science geek says, STFU! They can make a black hole!

Earth Mother hippie points to the paragraph on that page where it says, Hey, look, the RHIC works, because it didn't destroy the Earth like it could have! She points to where it says that the RHIC could have torn the fabric of space and time and could have formed a strangelet which would turn all matter into a mass of quarks.

Science geek laughs in Earth Mother Hippie's face because she thinks, What a way to go! And quarks are like the best matter ever!

Earth Mother Hippie points to the bottom of that page where it says that some have hypothesized that strangelets were responsible for some earthquakes, and earthquakes are never good.

Science Geek's jaw hits the floor.

All of me thinks that Long Island is the most interesting place in the entire world. There are just parts of me that disagree why it is so interesting, and when they fight, they fight violently and the rest of me can't sleep.