Ernest Rutherford wrote equations with way too many variables

Case in point:

It's the little things that make life go 'round

So on Monday in inorganic lab we were running vacuum filtration on a ferrocene sample we synthesized. Unbeknownst to us, somebody put a whole bunch of soap in the aspirator's water tank, so about a minute after we turned on the aspirator pump, the whole thing started foaming over all over the table. We laughed for a solid minute. I think that was the last thing any of us expected to see.

Math according to Microsoft

Um... 'k.

Where's Mandela?

I think he was trying to use one of those newfangled "metaphors," but it just didn't come out quite right.

A delightful diagram from my inorganic chemistry textbook

Adieu maestro

Riposi in pace.

12 Oct. 1935 - 6 Sept. 2007

3:10 to Yuma

Absolutely spectacular. Westerns bore me to death, but I hardly even noticed the two hours that passed. The more I think about it, the more I realize just how awesome it was. I just can't say enough good things about this film. Go see it.