<p>Dude, Emil! where you been man! You’ve had enough time to hang out, no dinner! haha</p>
<p>@jane try UCLA, much faster :)</p>
<p>Lol and i’m lovin dawkins too</p>
<p>solidblu/AJ- idk i have been typing their abbreviations so much I like the elegance of the University of California at Los Angeles. </p>
<p>yeah Richard Dawkins is so dispassionate in his arguments and that is important because Evolution is still a touchy subject in most parts of the United States. he is calm and cool and wants lay people to understand.
in his calm voice he said in the interview (paraphrased):
"We are not intelligently designed, there are so many flaws in the design of the human body that it is arrogant to think that we were created by a god in his perfect image…for example, humans evolved to be bipeds we began bending down on all fours, basically it is a reason why humans have so many back problems,because our anatomy is not perfected yet. "</p>
<p>and he just makes all the sense in the world and talks to people like a real gentleman.</p>
<p>@Emil: yeah the book was just great. The movie was bad. I can’t wait for his new book, @$$holes Finish First.</p>
<p>Wow, that’s a really good quote, jane. Dawkins is such a genius. Here is one of my favorite quotes: “Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.”
-Thomas Jefferson</p>
<p>Love that guy. Churches always claimed that its a sin to doubt god, and that always frustrated me. that’s probably why I loved that particular quote from jefferson so much when I saw it.</p>
<p>the computer your using to read this forum was designed by an engineer.
+1Hellapoints. Hella…being the prefix for 10^27th.</p>
<p>I am totally guilty of using the word “hella”… I even sometimes say “hecka”</p>
<p>@sfwarrior Damn you, you’ve got me there! So…by chance, did any of you engineer types build your computers? I always love comparing parts and advice… :)</p>
<p>^^yep I built mine 
what are your specs?</p>
<p>@sfwarrior Sweet dude! Mine’s got a Core i7 920, 6gb dominator 1600mhz ram, crossfired radeon 3870’s, an EVGA SLI mobo, and three Hard drives, booting from a velociraptor. </p>
<p>Love my baby!
Oh ya, and in an antec 900 case, for sexiness factor of course</p>
<p>Mine is a “sleeper”. I actually have everything inside an HP Pavilion case. Its whats inside that counts.
Mobo: eVGA E758 3-Way SLi Intel X58 ATX 1366 Socket
Proc: Intel Core i7 960 Bloomfield 3.2Ghz non OCd
Mem: same,6gb Corsair Dominator 1600mhz
GPU: Radeon HD5870…saving up for a new psu and another one so i can xfire it
PSU: Antec Earthwatts something… hahah
HDD: booting off a velociraptor as well. running my games off a sdd.</p>
<p>i have the only hp desktop that glows blue inside the case. hahah
I jumped on the Nehalem proc bandwagon pretty late. I was a die hard AMD fan, with my HP’s stock Phenom X4 and a decent GTS 250. Then I pretty much dumped everything inside the case and built it from scratch. Some modifications were obviously made to the case to house a) the massive gfx card. The case is atx though so i managed.</p>
<p>@sfwarrior Wow dude, you’re one serious builder haha, have me beat 
I’m planning on OCing my 920 soon, that’s why I bought the dominator ram. And a radeon 5870…wow…I’m really jealous there. I wanted to buy one of those to upgrade my radeon 3870, but I’m short on money now so I just bought a second 3870 used from ebay to xfire in the meantime. Still runs most of my games at 1920x1200 though, so I’m happy. Though I’ll admit I have to lower my settings a little bit for both MW2 and CODBC2. </p>
<p>Why in the world do you need to xfire the 5870? Doesn’t the 5870 satisfy your needs as it is haha???</p>
<p>Oh ya and I forgot my PSU - I actually used to have an Antec EArthwatts 430, but now I have a Corsair 750w.</p>
<p>Lol and I think its awesome that you’ve got it in an HP case haha - do you live in a dorm or something?? When I move out of home, I may want to do something like that. My pretty little case has a nice window so the thief can see everything in it…not very good haha.</p>
<p>UCLA! COME ON! RELEASE EARLY? in my dreams. </p>
<p>I AM SO TIRED from actually staying up late last night…you guys are real champs for being able to stay up sooooo late.</p>
<p>soooo i ended up going out friday and saturday night in IV… holy damn</p>
<p>results: very drunk, 2 very bad hangovers, lots of fun, and 1 ticket for MIP :(</p>
<p>I was hoping UCLA would release around this time… since they did the same for freshmen last month. I guess not :</p>
<p>The ticket part sucks bad dude. Did a party get busted or something?</p>
<p>do u guys know if its too late to change major for UCB?</p>
<p>@AJ nice man. I gave up partying for my spring break and went on a 5 day long school visiting tour. I definitely don’t regret it. I’ll party plenty once I transfer :)</p>
<p>no man. by the way if anyone is seriously considering ucsb, you need to go stay the night in town and go to del playa on a friday. if you cant handle it, or dont like the crazieness of it, i would NOT go if i were you. its like a city-wide rager. everywhere is a party</p>
<p>ps i had an unopened beer in my hand, and i was pi$$ drunk. my 21st birthday is on thrusday :(.foot patrol stopped me :(. lots of worse stuff could have happened tho. i saw 4 fights (one guy got face stomped), lots of boobs, plenty of drunk people, a very drunk girl peeing on my friends lawn (ROFL), and some arrests. DELtopia was pretty fun, but very intense</p>
<p>@blu i dont think im going to xfire it anytime soon. I dont have the money hahah. My rig spanks crysis and MW2 right now. Im pretty happy with it. Not soo much with the running temps though. I need a better case or fan. As far as 3d work this thing kicks every single mac’s ass…twice. I would actually suggest you invest in a GTX 275 those cards are amazing and they aren’t too expensive. Or if your feeling feisty a GTX 470 would do you well.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814143183&cm_re=gtx_275-_-14-143-183-_-Product[/url]”>http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814143183&cm_re=gtx_275-_-14-143-183-_-Product</a></p>
<p>forget about the evga one…too expensive.</p>
<p>@aj Face stomped? Wow.</p>