Oh, this poor bastard. "Is that Camus in your pocket, or are you just a pretentious existentialist?" I've been meaning to read "The Stranger". Especially after mostly enjoying "The Fall". I'll just have to remember not to tote it around in my trousers.

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Maybe these idiots should be worried about the massive amounts of fossil fuels required to run particle accelerators. They live in Hawaii, I know they've got better things to worry about. Volcanoes.

DOOM!
It's unfortunate that I can't stand advanced math, or I'd build my own collider and destroy the world. Well, maybe just pieces of it.

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I think I can consider these a series now.


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This morning, I woke up to news that the co-creator and driving force behind Dungeons & Dragons and role playing in general is dead.

Rest in peace.

Well, I guess the revolution has almost begun.

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Moses was a DudeNo big surprises there. How many cultures have used the potent dope+god = placation? What better way to keep from getting your head smashed in with a rock in the middle of the night because you managed to get your entire ethnic group lost in the desert ( Read more... )

I think I may do a series of these.


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The real deal, not some perverted euphemism.

What's YOUR cookie personality?

Mine? Thin Mints. No doubt.

Calculus? When the hell am I going to use that in real life?

Never.

But for those of us that where unceremoniously jammed into advanced math class when art class may have helped round out our character, there is hope. Abstract fractal art! It's geek math meets snobby postmodernism.


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