http://rizwanalvi.com A little something on just about everything. Sun, 02 Nov 2008 07:35:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After being such a huge CNC and RA fan, I didn't expect RA3 to disappoint. It was so well done before, and now, it looks like it's a mix between warcraft and a 12 year old's laser light show fantasy. The graphics are terrible, not to mention the game is ... http://rizwanalvi.com/2008/11/02/red-alert-3-biggest-disappointment-of-the-year/ Definitely one of the best bands I've heard in a long time. If you haven't heard them yet, get to it. http://rizwanalvi.com/2008/11/02/ratatat/ I realize this has been known for quite some time now, but by blogging about it, I want to show my appreciation to whoever came up with this neat trick to get around ISP blocks and Pandora's own block to anyone outside of the US. For those of you who don't ... http://rizwanalvi.com/2008/10/28/circumventing-the-pandora-restriction/ I've come to terms with the fact that I'll probably post here less and less. I had planned on keeping this site up to date, but of course the more important things in life (food, video games, computers, and of course, video games) take priority. My fourth year at Shifa College ... http://rizwanalvi.com/2008/10/26/updates-better-late-than-never/ Today I had the steak tacos from Chipotle and to be frank, they were terrible. The steak was incredibly chewy and completely resistant to all 200lbs of brute force from my molars. Even after about 2 minutes, I had to swallow the steak "cubes" almost whole. Definitely not the way ... http://rizwanalvi.com/2008/07/28/chipotle-it-aint-all-that/ Also known as "electives," away rotations are pretty fun. I like to do mine in ophthalmology every year, since our school doesn't give us nearly enough of it in the current curriculum. For the past few weeks I've gotten to see lots of neuro-ophtho patients here in LA, all of ... http://rizwanalvi.com/2008/07/26/away-rotations-etc/ It's not everyday that I go run three miles, though if I had to, I know that I could.  I used to do it regularly about one year back. Now that I'm back in Los Angeles for a few weeks for my summer internship (and away from all of my ... http://rizwanalvi.com/2008/07/10/being-extreeeeme/ I was at work one day when I got another annoying call from a telemarketer. As a business location, they seemed to target us even more than they did my house.  Today's telemarketer was no different than the rest so I waited patiently for him to finish his sales pitch ... http://rizwanalvi.com/2008/05/28/why-you-should-hang-up-on-telemarketers/ So I was sitting around in ENT, not being productive when these kids started messin around with my steth. What else could I do but make a movie and make weird noises at them? http://rizwanalvi.com/2008/05/22/kids-in-the-clinic/ NOT that interesting. That's how far I got into the above sentence in my pathology book before counting all the other things I'd rather be doing. I know what you're all thinking, "Hey wait a minute, don't you nerds love to study?" Well, the answer is YES, of course we ... http://rizwanalvi.com/2008/04/15/the-cardiac-myocyte-is-generally/