Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net
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i’m having the greatest time reading xkcd and explosm comics.
from explosm:
1: what’s with the cross?
2: i’m a born again christian.
2: what’s with the pentagram?
1: i’m born against christians.
(funny, but so wrong, because the pentagram has nothing to do with christianity).
ubuntu: turns out distro is actually just windows vista with a few custom themes
i woke up thinking about math 324, multivariable calc — the first math class i ever took in college. i was thinking about that one problem i could never figure out — finding the surface integral through a cube. i can’t remember what the field was through the cube, but i remember that the answer was 3, which just did not add up. the answer key didn’t make sense and i didn’t feel brave enough to ask the professor, the infamous Dr. Warner. i remembered that his first name was garth, but for a while in my semi-waking state, i couldn’t remember what his last name was. garth nix? garth brooks? names of all the garths that i was familiar with popped into my head.
oh math. can’t live with you, can’t live without you.
that class was harder for me than it should have been. in retrospect, it wasn’t that hard. i blame it on my freshman-ness. i feel like i should revisit the class.
the other morning i woke up with the veronicas’ song ‘goodbye to you’. listened to it for the rest of the day.
subconscious thoughts abound…
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i went to surfthechannel.com and was buttering up my bread with non-butter (nutella and strawberry preserve) when the advertisement started talking to me:
“it’s time, time again to dive into a place where excitement is on the dinner table. join us for the valuable display in courage. “this sucks a lot”. “i don’t want to do this”. the anniversary of seeing your life in a [unintelligible], and the birthday of surprises you won’t soon forget. shark week is back, starting at sunday july 27th at 9, only on discovery.
i wish there was a similar announcement for my own shark week… i can never tell…
sometimes i can’t believe that i’m actually doing real science.
at other times, i can’t believe that the majority of my time is spent debugging my programs…
i really want to do something productive with my life. i want create things. i want to be innovative. and i want to start while i’m still young. this doesn’t seem to bode well with scientific research.
the problem with science is… 6 years of grad school. >.< i’m looking at four years of college, six years of grad school, and another decade of my life mired in institutionalism. i sit at a desk all day, straining my eyes at a computer screen. science is a world where smarts are all that matter, and your efforts get… swallowed up. poof. you constantly get judged by your merit, but it’s so tiring because others’ perception of you is immaterial to the rest of society.
i could simply get a science education and… figure out what i want to do next?
i made my first tofu purchase today.
$2. organic, firm korean-labeled tofu. the package was so remarkably well-sealed that i uprooted the strip of corner around the plastic while the plastic remained attached to the tofu square. thus, i pulled out the cheese knife. i didn’t know if i was supposed to was the tofu, but it’s something i vaguely recall my mother doing, so i washed it. it felt so cute between my hands. it was squishy! like a brain! when i squeezed it, water came out.
an outrageous attempt by the bush administration to undermine women’s rights
woot patty murray (washington senator).
there’s a pretty simple petition at the bottom of the article. the submit button doesn’t seem to work, but i tried anyway.
thanks to haeda/heather for the link.
finally, comments that caught my eye:
there’s veracity, who compares the authoritarianism over birth control to slavery
Today some of the above mentioned preachers, are trying to use the identical themes of “moral righteousness” and “defense of civilization” used to justify slavery, to justify a modern version of the authoritarian demands of submission to a cruel, authoritarian elite – and no one in the “major media” is calling them on it!
there’s voice4theunborn, who reminds us that an embryo has the potential to be a person, but spews the usual bible-thumping misogyny:
You think slavery is cruel, and inhuman and often sadistic… What do you call abortion. Maybe women should keep their panties on and the problem with birth control, and abortion wouldn’t be such a problem…
(maybe if men could keep their dicks in their pants… )
you’d think that ‘teralou’ sounds reasonable and sane in comparison…
Read a little more about the proposed bill. It is NOT about banning birth control pills! It is an antidiscrimination bill that would protect the right of healthcare workers who do not want to take part in abortions.
but then ‘pleeezzze’ says:
I propose a bill that anyone who decides to work in the health industry , keep their “beliefs” to themselves and do what they were hired to do , or CHANGE JOBS .
but then mairs takes it to the source: viagra:
I propose a bill that would allow anyone in the health care industry to refuse to dispense Viagra. Since every sperm is sacred, making sex easier to have could lead to abusing our procreative abilities and cause more sperm to be wasted on non-reproductive sex.
lol.
lists are good. (‘LunaNik’)
Those who claim a religious belief in the sanctity of life need to prove it. Here’s how:1. Immediately cease using insecticides and mousetraps in your homes. Insect and rodents are forms of life you claim your god created. Make sure you don’t step on any ants or swat mosquitoes. Allow cockroaches full access to your food supply.
2. When you become ill owing to bacterial or viral infection, suffer the illness without medication. You claim your god created all life, which includes bacteria and viruses.
3. Immediately rush to your nearest fertility clinic and demand that any “leftover” embryos which would otherwise be destroyed be implanted into your uterus.
4. Adopt all parent-less children.
5. Adopt all homeless dogs and cats presently scheduled to be euthanized.
6. Immediately cease eating all meat.
7. Be against the death penalty.
Until all these steps are taken, those of us who believe that life does NOT begin at conception will continue to consider you hypocritical at best, blasphemous at worst.
a while later…
Chad53916: Could we see a day when the GOP will try to outlaw condoms, masturbation, oral sex and the act of “pulling out” too?
Axolot1: we know from Iraq that that last technique is definitely banned by the government
i like cucumbers. they are my favorite vegetables. i am eating them with noodles. this dinner transpired at 10:30 pm.
i was pretty unproductive. i just worked on a cutting program, but i ran into so many problems, and the code takes a long time to load. bah.
now i’m playing around with hardware monitoring … sensors. lm-sensors.
blackle: google, but with a black screen. to save energy. and it’s easier on the eyes.
cosmic variance: a blog written by physicists and such. my astro 102 prof is a contributor.
i sense buffalo wings.
i spoke chinese to a couple who asked me to take a picture of them on the steps of the columbia library. i usually walk away from these interesting encounters feeling rather pleased with myself, but wishing i had done better in my chinese, i.e. not said something untrue (i said that i was here for ‘work’ and not ‘research’ like the woman had originally guessed, and i didn’t correct myself). i had guessed that they were chinese because the woman had a ‘beijing 2008′ shirt, so that alright. i realized that mandarin wasn’t their native dialect, since they had an accent and spoke it rather slowly. they were nice. i felt like i should stay around and talk more. i should remember to do that next time.
i found more noodle seasonings in my dresser! yes! bonito fish flavor!
the simple things in life keep me happy.
it’s too much to worry about GRE’s already.
i just installed the edge kde style. i had downloaded it a while ago, but never got around to applying it fully. after looking around for something spruce up my desktop (beryl/compiz! xfce! wm’s! kuartet!), i rediscovered edge on my computer and finished the job. it looks great! happy now.
i listened to a lot of the cranberries. ‘zombie‘ is a special one. i just found a cool recording of a performance on mtv unplugged. they’re irish!
i had been pretty excited about kuartet, a mezzo-inspired project for KDE built with superkaramba and python by this guy. in practice, i couldn’t customize it all that much. i wanted to change the icons immediately, the sidebar doesn’t work. but i really like the desktop buttons at the top of the screen. it’s kind of like the couple reviews i read about xfce4 today. it has its merits, but it isn’t too powerful.
