Sunday, September 12, 2010

Benjamin Franklin's self eulogy.



The body of B. Franklin, Printer, 
Like the Cover of an old Book,
Its Contents torn out,
And Stript of its Lettering & Gilding,
Lies here, Food for Worms,

But the Work shall not be lost,
For it will as he believ'd appear once more
In a new and more elegant Edition
Corrected and improved 
By the Author.

- Benjamin Franklin

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Dear Benjamin Franklin,

Your eulogy really excites me for that day when our creator will finally perfect us and raise us up!!I look forward to seeing the new edition of you on that day and thank you for encouraging me even when you are in the grave.

-YJ



Monday, September 6, 2010

This Graduate school stuff is making me more nerdy..

Everyday I catch myself turning more and more into a nerd. Why? Here's an example...During a sermon, the pastor was talking about how all four of his children are different in many ways even though they are from same mom and dad...ok, normally I would just think, "Hmm, ok whatever" and will go back to listening to the sermon... 

But, not this time. I spent next five minutes thinking about homologous recombination and how that may lead to expression of varying genes, and finally result in the development of four children that are very very different, etc...yea, it's pretty nerdy and even I can't believe I just did that. I didn't tell anyone that I did it too...but why am I recording it here? Someone told me it will be funny looking back at these kind of things later in the future. Even though I'm really bad at blogging, I guess I will give it a shot.