For many people, squid is a cephalopod. For many stupid people, squid is a fish. For me, squid stands for Super-conducting Quantum Interference Device. I drove down to UCSD on Thursday to run a magnetic study on one of my manganese complexes. Running SQUID samples takes hours, so I had a lot of time to kill. I spent most of it at the mall near campus. I got to play Mario Galaxy for the Wii. I must say the game is amazing. It's on par with how innovative Mario 64 was when it first came out. They did a great job using the Wii-mote without straying too far from the game play of the other Mario games.
While I was eating dinner, two little girls come up to me and start babbling about some fund raiser for ice skating. They wanted me to buy one of those red Santa caps. I wasn't really paying attention, because I was thinking of an excuse to get them to leave me alone. Then I looked up and see their dad (that or he's some creepy old guy) and he gave me this look like, "if you don't buy that hat, I'm gonna' beat your fucking ass." So I said, "I'd love to buy a hat," and get out my wallet, and he looks so much happier. I figured I could either buy one hat or I could get repeatedly punched in the face and buy ten hats. So to keep in the Christmas spirit I added this video I remember from a few years back.
