Day 312: The Last Interviews.

 

November 8th, 2011As the week drags on, I remember why I have Friday off: Veteran’s Day. As I walked through library walk to wander from place to place, I discovered a huge amount of flags designated for the sole purposes of honoring our troops. This was really much of an inspiration to me, as I continued a pretty standard routine for a Tuesday. I went to Vietnamese class, went to work shortly thereafter (where Geetha and I went to wash carts), and then I dropped her off at Foodworx, where she swiped me some lunch. I went to wash another cart, scan three folders, and then ultimately go to Price Center to interview Adam Powers and Julia (individually, of course). I went on the campus loop afterwards which the driver Sylvie saw me run after and stopped subsequently. My destination? The Comm Building. The Goal? Video Editing. I quickly finished up my Gunsmoke video for COMT100, and then started organizing clips from my COGN150, which will take A LONG TIME TO COMPLETE. Sigh. Afterwards, I met up with Michelle at Chipotle where we got dinner, we went back to my place to join Henry and Jessica for a not so great episode of Glee. When Henry and Michelle left Jessica and I talked for quite some time before she ultimately left. I also had my last interview with her at the same time. I ended the night studying and of course playing Sims.

On this day in 1895, physicist Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen (1845-1923) becomes the first person to observe X-rays, a significant scientific advancement that would ultimately benefit a variety of fields, most of all medicine, by making the invisible visible. Rontgen’s discovery occurred accidentally in his Wurzburg, Germany, lab, where he was testing whether cathode rays could pass through glass when he noticed a glow coming from a nearby chemically coated screen. He dubbed the rays that caused this glow X-rays because of their unknown nature. X-rays are electromagnetic energy waves that act similarly to light rays, but at wavelengths approximately 1,000 times shorter than those of light. Rontgen holed up in his lab and conducted a series of experiments to better understand his discovery. He learned that X-rays penetrate human flesh but not higher-density substances such as bone or lead and that they can be photographed. OOOH EXCITING.

Herman Cain on Tuesday vehemently denied all sexual harassment allegations against him and said he had no memory of the first accuser to publicly describe claimed misconduct by the Republican presidential hopeful. “They simply didn’t happen. They simply did not happen,” Cain insisted of the accusations of inappropriate sexual behavior, and at least one incident of alleged sexual groping, when he was head of the National Restaurant Association from 1996 to 1999. OMG NEWS NEEDS TO TALK ABOUT ISSUES

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