I really need to sleep more before classes. You guys are probably familiar with the flow of conscious rants I do, where I start on one subject but god alone knows what topic I’ll end up on. Those rants of mine are usually done when I’m tired. When I’m awake, I have a little man in my head who acts as my censor. He just kinda sits there going ‘What ( Read more... )

For the sake of argument, lets say you were in charge of voting procedures in a fledgling democracy. In Afghanistan for example. One of the big concerns obviously would be fraud. Being Afghanistan and fairly backwards technology speaking as well as having poor census data on it's citizens, it would be fairly easy to rig the voting. There are recent ( Read more... )

I'm a fully registered freshman at college. Nice to know that a 17 year old nerd who is still popping his pimples is now my equal. I feel so proud ( Read more... )

I rarely contact my elected representatives. I'm not rich enough that they'd listen to me, so why waste my time? However the White House has requested that they be sent any 'fishy' emails that make false claims about the health care system (source). Now some call this an enemies list like Nixon had. I don't know why, they need to trust Obama. The ( Read more... )

Since I've been unable to find a job that doesn't involve french fries somehow, I've decided to go back to college. Today I took the placement test in English and a couple math fields (geometry, algebra, and college algebra). Considering it's been over 15 years since I left HS, I skimmed through an algebra book in prep. I didn't study it that ( Read more... )

So we're half a year into Obama's administration and I gotta admit, I'm missing the old team. Say what you want about torture, starting wars, etc. They had balls. I mean Dick Cheney was asked what he thought about polls showing 2/3rd americans were against the Iraq war and his response was 'So?' This is also the guy who told a senator to go fuck ( Read more... )

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In the early 1900's there was a woman who married five men. All five of them committed suicide. That had to be a blow to her ego. Ok, the first one or two guys I can see just being coincidence. After #3 offed himself you'd hope she'd think 'Hmm, maybe it's me'. #4 agreeing to marry her is kinda surprising. Deciding to be husband #5, while knowing ( Read more... )

I'm gonna be building a new computer. Most of the components I think I've settled on, but I'm not sure about the processor. On one hand for around $480 I can go with I7-920 and motherboard. On the other hand, I can go the cheaper route of the e8400 which comes in around $290 or so. AMD doesn't seem like a reasonable choice anymore, even with their ( Read more... )

Out of boredom I took that dating quiz that's been floating around. Lord knows why, I am married so dating ain't really relevant to my interests. It tells me I'm intellectual, funny, and liberal. Says 'Politics matters to you, and you aren't afraid to share your left-leaning views. You would never be caught voting for a conservative candidate.' Ok ( Read more... )