I was listening to a long and interesting Christian analysis of The Dark Knight and got to thinking about atheistic morality, an idea that's always kind of nagged at my (atheistic) self. I've managed to crystallize a lot of my thoughts about it below ( Read more... )

Apologies in advance for how nitty-gritty this is about exactly how I felt exactly when and exactly what meds I took; I wanted to get all the information down ( Read more... )

In Probability today, the professor was talking about the Monty Hall problem, a pretty counterintuitive probability problem that I learned about in Freshman year, back in Andy Barto's discrete math course. Then he told us about a similar problem, and it fucking blew my mind ( Read more... )

A dutch 4channer writes a photoblog about a monstrous jar of mold/fungi/who-knows-whatever-the-hell he's been growing from all sorts of random shit.

I can't get to sleep! I was just lying in my bed for around a half hour, I think, with no luck. I haven't had insomnia this bad (granted, this is nothing compared to what some people I know go through) for at least a year or so. The irony is that I'm also the busiest I've been in a very long time; the easiest I was ever able to get to sleep was the ( Read more... )

I had a dream that Dasha cut off my head to get the marijuana out of my blood (I guess I was going to get tested for a job), and then reconnected it. Afterward, I wondered: did she really cut off my head? How could she have done it without my dying of blood loss? How did my heart keep beating without my brain attached to it? The whole thing just ( Read more... )

Hilarious four minute long video. Read the text below it first.

I just had another weird flying dream. I have flying dreams a lot, but most of the time my ability to fly is extremely minor. In this dream, I could do this thing where I would hop into the air, and then kind of slowly push at it with my hands and feet, as though treading water, and stay in the air, and move in any direction at about the pace of a ( Read more... )

The author of an awesome webcomic writes a blog post about buying an idiotic painting.

Just saw Kevin Smith at Northeastern! Only found out about it a couple days beforehand, but got in, skipping my pretty slow analysis class and paying five bux for a ticket. Arrived early and got primo seating. Dude's still got it - despite having heard half his stories already (which isn't surprising considering how heavily I follow him), I was ( Read more... )