Day 262: BJ’s, Bridesmaids, and Pasta, oh my!

 

September 19th, 2011With three days left to go before the official start of the 2011-2012 school year, I needed to make the most of it. Subsequently I went to work today, with Sarah Gordon driving me all the way over to SIO to put on some wonderful chemical waste tags in Hubbs Hall. That was pretty fun making my picture of the day. Afterwards I met up with Geetha so we could get some delicious Bj’s for lunch. The final result? Pazookies eff’ing bloated me and put me into a dazed food coma state of nauseousness. When we got back we proceeded to Geisel so Geetha could check out some book, we went to the bookstore to scope out some electronics, and then we went to the third floor of PC to look for free planners (but we failed), instead encountering a vast exodus of people at the Cross Cultural Center Block Party.
A short nap was in the works afterwards, before heading over to Price Center for a free screening of Bridesmaid. While there we met up with Rashika and had a blast, Geetha sitting in the correct seat to find a hidden business card. Granted, she saw the woman put it there, but regardless she won a free poster, ultimately giving it to someone else to make that said recipient jizz uncontrollably in her pants in the movie theater. The movie, although seen already, was hilarious as always. We went to Panda afterwards so Rashika could get dinner, and while there I talked to Brittney and her sister for a bit. Afterwards, I went back to Geetha’s place where she cooked me some delicious pasta for dinner. What a day!

On this day in 1957, the United States detonates a 1.7 kiloton nuclear weapon in an underground tunnel at the Nevada Test Site (NTS), a 1,375 square mile research center located 65 miles north of Las Vegas. The test, known as Rainier, was the first fully contained underground detonation and produced no radioactive fallout. A modified W-25 warhead weighing 218 pounds and measuring 25.7 inches in diameter and 17.4 inches in length was used for the test. Rainier was part of a series of 29 nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons safety tests known as Operation Plumbbob that were conducted at the NTS between May 28, 1957, and October 7, 1957. In December 1941, the U.S. government committed to building the world’s first nuclear weapon when President Franklin Roosevelt authorized $2 billion in funding for what came to be known as the Manhattan Project. The first nuclear weapon test took place on July 16, 1945, at the Trinity site near Alamogordo, New Mexico. A few weeks later, on August 6, 1945, with the U.S. at war against Japan, President Harry Truman authorized the dropping of an atomic bomb named Little Boy over Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, on August 9, a nuclear bomb called Fat Man was dropped over Nagasaki. Two hundred thousand people, according to some estimates, were killed in the attacks on the two cities and on August 15, 1945, Japan surrendered to the Allied Powers. I HATE NUCLEAR WEAPONS.

Quietly, and very much under the radar, Ron Paul, the Texas congressman who no pundit believes has a serious chance of winning the Republican presidential nomination, is staging a bit of comeback, returning to his position as a solid No. 3 candidate in the GOP race. According to the USA Today/Gallup poll released on Tuesday, Paul was at 13%, displacing Rep. Michele Bachmann, who fell to 5% and into a three-way dead heat with former House speaker Newt Gingrich and businessman Herman Cain. Bachmann, who won a straw poll in Iowa last month, had been as high as second place before Texas Gov. Rick Perry entered the race in August, upsetting the standings. That’s pretty good considering how much the media has ignored him up to this point.

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