Today's Nat conversation involved the realization that everything they're teaching us in college looks like gibberish. Diff Eq: gibberish. Discrete math: gibberish. Crazy parts of Physics 208: gibberish. Japanese: gibberish. Java: gibberish ( Read more... )

I made some updates to my school website, but it's still not finished. Something tells me it will never be finished. One of these days I'll sit down and get my portfolio together ( Read more... )

I'm pretty sure that if Google doesn't take over the world, whoever is making Spore will. Spore is a videogame. It's so crazy and unique and impressive that I just couldn't explain it. You should watch the video. It's 30 minutes long, but after 10 you'll be hooked.

Nat conversations are always awesome. Today's Nat conversation was about how you could totally engineer a giant tree to be a ship. You could get the root system to grow into a hull and then the taproot would be like a keel. You could make sails to attach and the crew could live in the branches. And you could eat the fruit so you wouldn't get ( Read more... )

I just did laundry and someone had a dryer running with 84 minutes on it. I have no idea why anyone would dry their clothes for 84 minutes. Mine were in for half that time and were starting to get toasty. I guess 84 minutes is for if you like your pants to crackle and crumble into a fine powder as you walk to class ( Read more... )

Philosophy cannot construct anything besides itself (and then only shakily); it can only tear things down. It can do nothing constructive and yet it fascinates so many. It is the intellectual's toy. It's completely ridiculous and I hope I never have to take a philosophy class. Oh but watch, God has a sense of humor and I'm totally going to wind ( Read more... )

So it looks like Japan is going to happen over the summer. Which totally ROCKS! I'll be gone for pretty much all of July and a few days in August. $4995 plus airfare to Orange County ( Read more... )

I have a confession to make. I, Ryan Conrad Burger, do not actually Have It Together. I don't know if you thought I did, but I pretend to Have It Together a lot when in reality I most certainly do not. So if I deceived you, I cannot express how sorry I am. You weren't the only one deceived; I have done a very good job of deceiving myself ( Read more... )

It's all about romance, it's all about sex. Why must it be that way?

...isn't looking like it's going to happen. I had the first two parts written and tried to make time to write the last one, but *bam* 2006 got here exactly the way summer break doesn't ( Read more... )