Matter, Energy, and Life of Michaela A. Castello.

Category: Life

Short (and long) reads extracted from my personal life.

  • Five Signs You Should Change Your (Biology) Major

    I got an email entitled “Five Signs You Should Change Your Major.” Sound like you? Perhaps it’s time to consider something other than Pre-Med… You’re Bored to Tears in Your Current Major Courses Suppose you’re majoring in chemistry, and every time you go to one of your chemistry classes, you fight to stay alert. Maybe…

  • The Last Diamond?

    In the United States, an album must sell ten million copies (10x Platinum) to be certified Diamond. Given my interest in today’s music industry, I did a bit of research. The most recent Diamond certified album that I could find was Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, a double album by OutKast that shipped 5 million copies after…

  • Down with MMOs

    Age of Conan, the latest in the parade of Massively-Multiplayer Online Gaming scams, released yesterday. Almost immediately a number of my friends happily boarded the train where you not only have to buy a ticket to get on, but also must continue slipping bills to the conductor to prevent him from throwing you off somewhere…

  • Holy Cow—Another Winner from Valve?

    I’m not the biggest follower of gaming news—usually I just hear about things from Kyle, Penny Arcade, or a rare late night web surf. As a result I just found out about Left 4 Dead today, a new multiplayer FPS game from Valve. I watched the interview video and I’m really impressed. I can definitely…

  • This Is Just Cool

    I love innovation, and I love art. Innovative art is simply excellent.

  • Hissy Fit

    Tess, my desktop computer, decided to throw a complete hissy fit yesterday. She’d been PMSing for the past several weeks, giving me random BSODs and refusing to boot into Windows properly post-catastrophe. Yesterday after one of these episodes she outright refused to turn on, prompting me to go on a mad scramble to purchase a…

  • Grid 16

    This is by far one of the most interesting and fun flash-based games I have played in a long time. Check out Grid 16. There are 16 mini-games, all requiring the arrow keys to control, and your job is to figure out how to play them while staying alive. Die in a game and it’s…

  • Moving Forward

    What happens to a dream deferred?Does it dry uplike a raisin in the sun?Or fester like a soreAnd then run?Does it stink like rotten meat?Or crust and sugar overlike a syrupy sweet?Maybe it just sagslike a heavy load. Or does it explode? Langston Hughes