So this post comes via my younger brother, who directed me to this thread on the Something Awful Forums, which after some time devolves into arguing about how probability works with respect to the particular problem. My aim here is to point out the problem, and elucidate the proper solution. So without further ado, I present to you the Boy or ( Read more... )

"Goodnight and joy be to you all."

So long, University of Waterloo, and thank you.

I HAVE A JOB! XD

Well, Toronto said nay, and Queen's is waffling, so as of this moment, Brock it is!

Evan has reached level 24!

Alright, so anybody familiar with the xkcd fora (which, out of the maybe four people that read this, is probably close to nobody) is also probably familiar in some way with the Airplane-treadmill misconception, specifically that an airplane cannot take off from a treadmill, and that bringing this up in the xkcd fora comes with a close encounter of ( Read more... )

Cross-posted on White Noise.I'll be the first to admit I don't watch a whole lot of movies, and I review even fewer. But there's a movie that I want to talk about that I greatly enjoyed tonight; a low-budget music film made in Ireland called Once ( Read more... )

Fuck Einstein, fuck Minkowski, fuck differential geometry, fuck Lorentz transformations, fuck time dilation, fuck the metric, fuck line elements, fuck the Field Equations, fuck general relativity in general.

And fuck midterms, too! >_

I make decisions you cannot, I pay the piper's price ( Read more... )

Cross-posted on White Noise.So as a Toronto sports fan, by and large, I've had the unenviable task of rooting for some rather mediocre teams, not the least of which being the 2008-09 incarnation of the Toronto Raptors, who, admittedly with some critical injuries, have been underachieving all year. With signing point guard Jose Calderon long-term ( Read more... )