Alternate Reality

On Kato:
Kyuhyun: 我罵你。(Translation: I'm scolding you) My thoughts exactly.

On construction outside our apartment:
Jason: I honestly want to learn how to do their work and help them.  Surely these guys need some help meeting their deadline. I was just thinking of offering to make them lemonade.

On the Bundesliga:
Leander Schaerlaeckens: "While the English Premier League is seen as the gold standard, a scenario is unfolding in which the Bundesliga could surpass the EPL to become the world's most popular and successful soccer league. If that sounds like a stretch, consider that the Bundesliga is already the best-attended league and arguably the most exciting one, too.  


German soccer is leading the way on another front as well. Most European soccer clubs are struggling with massive debt. The 20 English Premier League clubs have a combined debt that has spiraled to $4.45 billion. In La Liga, last year's 20 teams rang up $4.65 billion in debt. Contrast that with Germany, where the country's 36 pro teams are (wait for it) actually making money." The US could stand to take some lessons from your business plan.  


On China: 
DuChun: High speed trains have officially started running from Beijing to Shanghai, moving China into an unprecedented era of technology. This may make me sound like a nerd but I am really excited/jealous.  


On NASA: 
Todd Halvorson:  "Since Columbia and seven astronauts were lost during atmospheric re-entry in 2003, when heat shield damage went undetected, NASA always has had a second shuttle ready for a rescue mission. But this time, there's no backup. Atlantis is outfitted with NASA's last shuttle external tank and solid rocket boosters.
So NASA developed an alternate plan: The crew would stay on the station and make staggered returns on Russian Soyuz spacecraft." Who would ever have thought back in the day of the Space Race that this would be the reality of the Russian/US space programs?  It is interesting to be getting a degree in a field that is dying.


On Research:
If I had not missed my deadline, I would be in Hawaii right now.  Ah, Hawaii.  I can imagine the trip would include a lot of engineering and a lot of sitting by myself and just looking at the ocean.  (Why is it that when you're old, all you want to do is sit and stare at the scenery?)