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Testing...
This entry is just to test something. If any of you noticed this entry, this is an entry to test a theory on why I can't post in any earlier year. Apparently the integer variable assigned to the time and date on many computers is going to run of values by a certain day in 2038, as it's been counting seconds up from 1970. (For some reason I can't ( Read more... ) -
Nerd rants
I'm not sure why I'm updating this. I'm mostly bored, so I decided I'd make note of a few trivial things...
First, I'd like to say that I've tried the three new Mt. Dew flavors, and although they're all not half bad, only one of them lives up to its name: Voltage, which does indeed have potential. Super Nova does not become Mt. Dew Neutron Star ( Read more... ) -
Behold the power of cheese!
I just thought you all should know that a study showed that cheese helps you think:
Scientists have found that people with high levels of the brain chemical serotonin are more likely to succeed in delicate negotiations affecting their own interests. Serotonin is manufactured in the body from the amino acid, tryptophan, which is present in several ( Read more... ) -
Intelligence
Is it possible for a mind--and by mind, I just mean a thought process in even the loosest sense--to form an intelligent understanding of a universe when it exists purely linguistically, viz. having no perception except communication with other intelligences? It would seem to have the higher levels without the proper lower levels of optical, ( Read more... ) -
Work, Intelligence, and God
Although it may have seemed that I abandoned my journal altogether, more accurately it just lost its purpose. I was in regular contact with practically all the people who read it, and unlike some people, I use this more as a channel of communication than just a place to record my thoughts. People are now in Morgantown while I happen not to be, so ( Read more... ) -
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It's been forever since I updated, but I'm bored and insomnolent, so I figured I might as well ( Read more... ) -
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Well, it's been a while. Normally after such a long absence I post a ten page entry, but today I'm not going to. I'm just going to post a short entry, firstly because I'm tired but not yet ready to go back to bed, secondly because I'd never remember everything I should put, thirdly I guess I'm just trying to ease my way back into the habit of ( Read more... ) -
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A Pluto manifesto, perhaps?
First, I'd like to say that Pluto is so a planet. Why? A few decades ago some astronomer saw something in the sky that no one had ever seen before and called it a "planetary nebula". It turns out that it was the gas and plasma shell of a dying star being ejected into space as the core implodes and the star transforms from a red giant to a white ( Read more... )
