So much has been happening. First, I want to thank Nick and Esme for the party invite and vegan pâté. That was very thoughtful. Much math and music talk was had and enjoyed. Second, the shindig at Rachel and Geoff's place last night was tons of fun. I don't think that there could have been a larger showing of acoustic guitars outside of a Mogwai ( Read more... )

Some friends of mine (Graham and the LRR crew) are raising money for Child's Play (a charity that donates toys and games for children's hospitals) by playing Penn & Teller's Desert Bus mini game (from Smoke & Mirrors). If you are a gaming nerd, you probably already know about it. If not, the game is to drive a bus from Arizona to Las Vegas in real ( Read more... )

GradesThe past few weeks have been a mix of incredible slacking and dashing madly through chapters of my textbooks in order to race through assignments. It's payed off, I'm holding at ~90% on my assignments for both classes. Still, I'm (once again) completely fucking bombing my easy course (honours quantum) and killing my hard course (E&M). I'm ( Read more... )

Pathetic. I can only assume that this will backfire from the get-go, exposing the holes in their arguments more clearly than before.

When Ben Stein talks like this I can't tell if he's just honestly incredibly ignorant about science or if he's the sort of scum that is lying through his teeth about it while trying to sell to the fundy market. Given ( Read more... )

Somehow in between working on my assignments and watching snippits of Woody Allen flicks I missed having my daily Earl Grey. This devastating blow was perhaps more than compensated for when I found what very well may be the future of Sci-Fi.

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I have been discussing things elsewhere, I'll post some of the stuff in here if I get around to it.

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While I'm here, I'd just like to leave a link to what may be the greatest movie created by humans: Slumber Party Massacre 2.

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A few months earlier, for horror movie night, we had rented A Nightmare On Elm St. 3. Sadly, the DVD didn't begin with the Dokken music video.

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Fox News was reporting on some Muslim cleric in Saudi Arabia. The chap was giving advice on how to beat one's wife. Charming. I love how, although he talks about the women being human beings, he is distinguishing how they should be beaten differently than an animal--also considered property. Thank goodness that they have this solid religious ( Read more... )

I didn't even know that it's World Vegan Day. That's no problem, because I still have nineteen minutes to celebrate with some manner of cruelty free soy meat substitute. Tobacon? Tofurkey? Tochik'n McNuggets? Tokidney?

Seriously though.... I went out this evening to Pierrot Le Fou:

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