Last night I hit the LA City Auto Show with my buddy Jeff. Here's the Bugatti Veyron concept, which magically exceeds 1000 Horsepower. Popular Science did an article on this car, which I think goes for well over a million bones. While speaking to one of the Chevy spokesmodel girls, a 74 year old man named Lazlo sprung upon me and began telling me his life story! He said his old impala went 285,000 miles, and then proceeded to squeeze my hand as hard as he could. He then talked about how he had crippled many people and studied in Tibet before becoming a Colonel Navy Seal. (does the navy have Colonels? I was told soon after that they don't) Anyhow it was fun to talk to him, until he repeated that he was "74!!!!" and squeezed my left bicep in an attempt to maim me, or show how he "could if he wanted to". Anyhow, I told him it was nice to meet him and then resumed talking to the spokesmodel girl, who happened to be from St. Clair Shores... Anyhow, the Veyron was pretty sweet, and you can just catch the backside in the reflection... good times...

In the 8th floor of Boelter Hall lives the engineering library. This study room, and the one next to it is where a bunch of us grad students spent our entire first quarter at UCLA. We would check out the room for two hour blocks on each of our bruin cards and bully the room until the library closed. Looking back on this room, blood, sweat, struggle, mental fracture, recovery, and teamwork defined this room. Made a few really great friends in this room, but man will I be glad to never see this place again! The friends I will see soon at our UCLA reunion, which I am planning for one of the next couple weekends.

After getting my international student ID at the student union for my trip to Paris, I decided to take one last walk through UCLA's campus... Here's Powell Library, where a lot of the studying happened. Students would sit out front and smoke and talk and generally stress out about exams... It's a lot more fun to see the place now that I'm done here! ha! ;)