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"stephen hawking is gay for black holes."
gross.
gross.
April 7th, 2008
March 12th, 2008
When we won Iowa, the Clinton campaign said it's not the number of states you win, it's "a contest for delegates."
When we won a significant lead in delegates, they said it's really about which states you win.
When we won South Carolina, they discounted the votes of African-Americans.
When we won predominantly white, rural states like Idaho, Utah, and Nebraska, they said those didn't count because they won't be competitive in the general election.
When we won in Washington State, Wisconsin, and Missouri -- general election battlegrounds where polls show Barack is a stronger candidate against John McCain -- the Clinton campaign attacked those voters as "latte-sipping" elitists.
I laughed out loud reading this... But it's sad, and true, and.... working?
March 9th, 2008
Top Music in the Georgia Tech network.
1 Coldplay
2 Jack Johnson
3 Incubus
4 Red Hot Chili Peppers
5 Pink Floyd
1 Coldplay
2 Jack Johnson
3 Incubus
4 Red Hot Chili Peppers
5 Pink Floyd
March 7th, 2008
Discr[ete|eet].
Today I am working with very polite behavioral models composed of states and transitions
Today I am working with very polite behavioral models composed of states and transitions
March 6th, 2008
i would like a plausible explanation for why the variation ya'll seems to be becoming more common rather than less. having hopefully shed any southern accent i used to have by now, it still bothers me. it's not optional like alot or tonite, it's serious business, that apostrophe. wh'os with me?
February 12th, 2008
things that i still like about questionable content:
- that faye and sven are friends now
- hannelore in general
fuck all y'all
- that faye and sven are friends now
- hannelore in general
fuck all y'all
February 8th, 2008
yesterday i gave to a political campaign, and for the first time ever paid to have spam sent to myself.
January 15th, 2008
i've always said that the amount of alcohol it takes for me to pass out is significantly less than the amount where i do really stupid things. i just realized this is no longer true.
o'malley, are you drunk?
drunk enough to break my own bones!
o'malley, are you drunk?
drunk enough to break my own bones!
December 18th, 2007
it breaks my heart every time my office mate puts his headphones on like 5 seconds after i do. as if he's saying "oh we can't be friends? fine."
December 5th, 2007
in which to this day, I still expect to hear "Bond, James Bond... Junior"
December 1st, 2007
- Does cheap wine turn your teeth more purple than good wine?
- Is quantum decoherence a) related to conscious observation or b) simply the result of being in a thermodynamically irreversible system?
- If a), is it possible that the converse is also/rather true, that consciousness arises from quantum uncertainty, that a quantum computer would be inherently "conscious"?
- This Kurzweil book scares me. Either he's a lunatic or we're kind of pooched
- That wasn't a question
- Does any modern work of fiction have a villain who is not actually an alter ego of the protagonist?
- Why does John Nash get a Nobel Prize 44 years after he wrote his dissertation, but that crazy Russian guy who refused the Fields medal would have gotten it the year he did his work?
- Is it related to the movement for speed-canonization of JP II and Mother Theresa?
- If so, is this related to McDonald's, email, and webisodes?
- Speaking of game theory, why aren't there denominators in Pascal's wager? There should be a different denominator if we're playing for all eternity or if we're playing for 70ish years
- Why do I constantly have so much desire to create something and so little inspiration for it?
- If Jeff Buckley were still alive, what would he be doing? One man with guitar à la Nick Drake? Large-scale concept albums? Political Activism? Only just recently gaining notoriety?
- If you accept meaninglessness as dogma, are you fooling yourself by alleging that there are still things worth experiencing and/or enjoying?
- Are there any new episodes of Lost that were filmed before the writers' strike?
November 25th, 2007
November 19th, 2007
October 29th, 2007
My new hobby is drinking and making up verses to Tom Waits - Circus
October 9th, 2007
October 3rd, 2007
in ascending order by confidence:
5. calamari
4. bacon
3. strawberry cream cheese
2. banzai burger
1. oreo pizza
5. calamari
4. bacon
3. strawberry cream cheese
2. banzai burger
1. oreo pizza
October 1st, 2007
the phrase "you have to ask yourself one question..."
September 23rd, 2007
okay, just to set this up properly, it looked like Guy was making Girl go on a bike ride she didn't really want to go on, and Guy wasn't being particularly understanding of the fact that Girl was getting extremely hungry
Guy: where are you going? i'm trying to help you here. there's a burrito place right around the corner, let's just go in the bike shop first
Girl: i'm not interested in going in that bike shop
Guy: look, i'm trying to mitigate my spending by not buying something for you that you could buy for yourself
Girl: i don't even know what it is that you want me to buy
Guy: it's a uh... a travel pump
Girl: i don't know what that is, so that means i don't need it
Guy: i don't know what a vasectomy is, that doesn't mean i don't need one!
gah, brilliant on so many levels. mean and derisive but also totally defensible. master of subtly insulting your girlfriend, teach me your ways!
Guy: where are you going? i'm trying to help you here. there's a burrito place right around the corner, let's just go in the bike shop first
Girl: i'm not interested in going in that bike shop
Guy: look, i'm trying to mitigate my spending by not buying something for you that you could buy for yourself
Girl: i don't even know what it is that you want me to buy
Guy: it's a uh... a travel pump
Girl: i don't know what that is, so that means i don't need it
Guy: i don't know what a vasectomy is, that doesn't mean i don't need one!
gah, brilliant on so many levels. mean and derisive but also totally defensible. master of subtly insulting your girlfriend, teach me your ways!
September 17th, 2007
an economist on npr tonight was talking about how clinton worked really hard to reduce the deficit, only to have the next guy squander it on tax cuts and a ridiculous war. the net effect being not that the next set of candidates want to save money but that everyone realizes now that fiscal responsibility is probably not all that worthwhile. yikes. at least democrats might start acting like democrats again
on a related point, he said devaluation of a country's currency isn't really a problem when the country's debt is in its own currency. "we're not argentina" he says. holy shit i say.
see this is the kind of thing that blows my mind, and if kristen were around, she could humor me and say "good job sweetie you learned things" and i wouldn't have to burden the internet with my revelations. also, she doesn't call me sweetie, that was just for effect.
on a related point, he said devaluation of a country's currency isn't really a problem when the country's debt is in its own currency. "we're not argentina" he says. holy shit i say.
see this is the kind of thing that blows my mind, and if kristen were around, she could humor me and say "good job sweetie you learned things" and i wouldn't have to burden the internet with my revelations. also, she doesn't call me sweetie, that was just for effect.