The War Room

1) I’ve basically submitted all of my grad school apps. I have to fill out some paper stuff to mail in and send in transcripts but I’m essentially done.

2) Waiting to hear back from these schools is literally going to kill me. The next six years of my life are going to be determined by a bunch of strangers I’ve never met that are judging me based on a few pieces of paper. I hate it. I’m like the fucking Black Prince of Physics. I’ve never met a concept I don’t understand or a problem I couldn’t solve. And that’s not even counting the fact I’ve got a math disability. And inevitably, somebody not nearly as awesome as I am will take my dream spot and I’ll be left scavenging. 

3) Can we talk about how irritating UVA’s application was? They literally had a section for in-state tuition that I AND my parents needed to fill out. Seriously? No other application asked for that because…oh wait…grad school is free for physicists. I’m really hoping they aren’t the only place I get into because I would hate to go there. It’s a good program with cool research but the atmosphere is just…not for me.

canadiansigh:

If I’m a sarcastic asshole when I talk to you its either because I really like you and feel comfortable teasing you

Or I really hate you and don’t care if you know it

Good luck figuring out which one

1) Don’t ever apply to grad school. It’s too damn stressful. There a literally only 300 words that are essentially going to determine if I get to go to my 1st choice or I have to settle somewhere else. It’s such bullshit. If you want me to tell you how awesome I am, then let me tell you how awesome I am. Putting a 300 word limit on me is super-unfair. You won’t let me give you a resume longer than a page and you put a 300 word limit on my personal statement. There are things I’ve done that will never make it on either of those documents. I think everybody else is just upset that they have to struggle to fill up that space. Seriously. I’m kind of a big deal.

2) “This country desperately needs God.” - Facebook post

No. YOU need God. I don’t. I get along just fine without Him. I would assume that any supreme being that would take the time to create an entire race of assholes like us would leave us to our own decisions. He gave us free will and the capability to think. If you’re not comfortable using that brain God gave you to make your own way and need Him to tell you what to do, that’s your problem. Leave me out of it. Some of us actually have our shit together.

And while I’m on that note, if I hear another “Our society’s obsession with violence is what’s causing all these problems” I will literally punch a small child. People are violent. They always have been and always will be. It’s your obsession that God has the answer to everything that is causing the problem. Did you ever think that maybe He just doesn’t like dealing with your bullshit problems and expects you to handle them yourself? The Man does have an entire Universe to run and probably is a little more concerned about making sure that’s in good working order than whatever issue it is you’re having. Please grow up and deal with your own issues. You are a fully capable human being, act like it. 

3) I’m really looking forward to all the crazy shit people are going to do tomorrow. It’ll be lovely. All this “Apocalypse” shenanigans are gonna cause a whole extra set of issues. That’s the joke. The End of the World is caused by people thinking it’s the End of the World and going bat-shit crazy. The irony.  

“…But how can you teach math and not believe in a God?

A God of perfect points and planes,
surrounded by right angles and arch angels of varying degrees.”

Because math is completely abstract and theoretical. Infinite planes, points, right angles, and all those other nice things don’t actually occur in nature. They’re man-made. Nature doesn’t work in straight lines, right angles, points, and perfect spheres. Nature hates those things which we’ve deemed “perfect.” Trust me. If physics has taught me anything, it’s that stuff never works out like it does in the textbook where we can make all of these nice assumptions and approximations. Nature is fundamentally flawed. But that’s what makes it so perfect. If it worked out perfectly like it does in the textbook, so many things would never be able to happen. Life wouldn’t exist. Our Universe would be completely different and really rather boring. But it’s not.

It’s beautiful and exciting. It’s perfectly imperfect. 

I just hit me today how big of a deal it is that I’m now a member of Pi Mu Epsilon, the collegiate math honors society. 

I HAVE A FUCKING DISABILITY IN MATH AND I’M IN THE MATH HONORS SOCIETY.

I’ve struggled with math my entire life, worked hard to compensate for my weakness, and turned it into a strength.

Put da team on my back doe.

FUCK YOU MATH! 

“Friend in reference to my date for CHC dance*: “She’s a ho.”

So let me get this straight. You know everything about this person and are best friends with her, right? Oh wait…

I’m not gonna pretend like it’s not possible for her to be a “ho.” I’m not an idiot. I can creep Facebook just as well as anybody else (and, trust me, I did). However, my spidey-sense tells me otherwise (spidey-sense is never wrong). I’m not gonna pretend like I know her super-well (unlike some of my friends) but she seems like she has a good head on her shoulders. I mean she’s a on the soccer team, nursing major, AND in the Honors College. Can’t be that bad. Right? Hoes are not typically well-known for having their shit together. Just sayin’.

Besides, I’m just taking her to a dance. If she does turn out to be a ho, there’s no reason we can’t be friends. Everybody chill out.

Today is just one of those days for me:

1) Got the highest score on the Optics test (97%, nbd)

2) Dominated my chemistry lab even though it was a titration lab (I despise titration)

3) Got a smokin’ hot date for the CHC dance next week

Too good.

That awesome moment when a cute girl actually wants to see your Tesla coil and thinks it’s the coolest fucking thing ever (which it is).

I really dislike this ENGL 400 class. Not because of the professor or the people or the work. It’s the concept.

Civic discourse. Public rhetoric.

I’m a physicist. I’m going to be locked in a lab for the rest of my life. The only people I need to communicate with are the scientific community. Even if I made a discovery important enough to be shared with the public, I would simply be reporting what I found. There is no way I can convince you that what I’ve found is relevant and important. If I have to explain to you why cold fusion, faster-than-light travel, or anything on that scale is important you’re already too ignorant to understand. Read a fucking book. Be an informed member of society. This civic discourse stuff would be great if everybodywas on the same page. But considering that I literally hear “Why the hell do I need to take physics? I’m an elementary ed major” about 6 times a day, clearly that’s not going to happen. Please stop trying to force me to do something that I don’t buy into. I’m not convinced, you’re not going to change my mind. I don’t have shit-tons of money to bribe people with, there is nothing I can do to change anything going on anywhere. 

When to the Farmville Town Council meeting for one of my classes. My favorite quote of the evening:

“Of course, all water is the same age because it was all made by the Creator at the same time.”

I can’t even. This guy was supposed to be the “technical expert” and he actually said this. This is why we can’t have nice things.

So a lot has happened these past few weeks. And by a lot I really mean just one really significant thing: I broke up with my girlfriend. I just needed to happen. I had a startling amount of influence over her life and I don’t think she could see it. This next year is super-important for both of us and we need clear minds to make sure we don’t screw stuff up. I didn’t want her to be making plans about her life based on what I’m doing because I’m not going to do the same. I need to take care of myself first and I want her to do the same. Plus, lets’ be real, we’re stupidly young. There is no need to have any part of your life revolve around another person yet. I’m not saying we can’t be together somewhere down the line, just we need to make sure that’s what we want first. I don’t have enough data points to accurately determine that and neither does she. I feel like everybody needs that one period in their life where they’re just experimenting and there’s no commitment attached. It helps you to make better decisions down the line. More data points. I want to see some different people and I want her to too. If we still want to be together after all that data has been gathered and analyzed, then fine. But it might turn out that we don’t actually want what we thought we did. I have 6 more years of grad school and I might want different things after that. I don’t know. Nobody can know that.

So here’s the plan. I’m just gonna live like a double agent. Reckless but responsible. Work hard but play harder. Make mistakes but find solutions. Get close but keep my distance. Be trusted but never trusting. 

Operation: Double Agent is in effect.

Facebook is not the place to post shit you’re only going to half-ass. If you want to make a comment on how messed up the education system is just say that. Say what you want to say. Clarity saves lives people. And if you don’t want to put in the effort to make it clear, then just don’t post it. The world will move on without knowing your thoughts on education. When you half-ass it, you just look like a whiny bitch and it irritates people because it’s not clear what you’re getting at. 

But seriously, you’re a fucking idiot. My observations don’t match-up with your post. You say one thing but you’re doing another. I already don’t like you but maybe I can at least make you see how fucking annoying you are.

1) Phelps might be the most decorated Olympian ever but that doesn’t make him the greatest. Being a great Olympian is more than just the medals. It’s about your attitude. Phelps was just here for the medals. You can see it in his eyes. It’s not about representing your country as you go toe-to-toe with the world’s best for him anymore. It was just about the medals. A great Olympian would keep putting it all on the line every time they competed, regardless of the medal implications. A great Olympian would say “I might have 400 bajillion gold medals but I’m going to give it all I’ve got for the folks back home” not “I’ve already got my sundae, I’m just adding toppings.” A great Olympian would treat every Olympics as a chance at a new sundae. I mean, let’s be real. Who the fuck only wants ONE sundae?

2) Chick-fil-a Shenanigans. Let’s set a few things straight: A) I’m not saying the man is not entitled to his beliefs, and I’m not upset that he holds those beliefs (per say). What does piss me off is that he is actively and willing trying to restrict the rights of other human beings. That’s not cool. B) I don’t give a damn how much of the money goes to helping communities. That does not justify sending money to certified hate groups to try and keep other people down. Hate groups ALWAYS do community service shit because it gives them a support base. Almost all of those projects occur in areas that pretty generally support that groups position anyway. They’re simply taking care of themselves, not communities that actually need the help. You don’t see the KKK building any community centers in the middle of Harlem. Just sayin’. 

3)The United States is the only democratic, industrialized nation where it’s ok to actively sabotage the freedom of another person and it be protected as “First Amendment rights.” Freedom of Religion means you’re allow to have and practice, no matter how stupid. And practicing a religion does not mean trying to make everybody join your club and live like your sky-wizard says. Practicing means you’re allowed to do what ever it is that pleases your deity of choice, without infringing upon folks’ rights, in private. If you believe eating pork is a sin, you don’t have to eat it, but let the rest of us unwashed heathens have your helping of bacon. It’s not against the law for you to do that. Quite frankly, I’m happy to let you do whatever weirdo practices you have, as long as I don’t have to play along. Just keep that shit behind closed doors. They built churches for a reason. Use them.

Every time that I see one of my friends is supporting this hateful “Support Chick-fil-a” bullshit, I lose a MASSIVE amount of respect for them. Which is bad because some of these people didn’t have a whole lot in the respect bank to start with. Others I have a massive amount of respect for and it makes me a little sick inside to know that’s how they truly feel about the subject. Do they realize that they are turning their backs on some of their best friends and good human beings? Being gay doesn’t mean the almighty sky-wizard is going to damn you to Hell for all eternity. Betraying your friends and being downright hateful to other human beings, however, might just earn you a VIP seat. Think about that while you enjoy that ignorance-inducing, bigot-producing chicken sandwich. 

1) I have been absolutely horrible about updating the REU blog. It’s just been so crazy that I don’t have the time to sit down and put down all of the exciting thoughts and experiences. All of the posts will eventually be put up (I’ve been keeping a simple paper log the whole time). Trust me, the wait will be worth it.

2) I had a lengthy conversation with one of the faculty that founded the Department of Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences here at Hampton. He worked for NASA for 30 years before that. Oh and the man basically invented LIDAR. The man is a living legend. Awesome experience.

Dating me is like dating Tony Stark. Seriously. Watch Iron Man, Iron Man 2, and Avengers and it will become pretty clear. My ego is so huge it can be seen from space. It’s completely out of control. And I’m kind of an asshole…about everything. And I can teach myself super-advanced physics practically overnight. I might not have like 14 bajillion dollars but let’s be real…if I did I would totally build an armored powersuit. It would just happen.

And yet my girlfriend is still willing to be seen in public with me :)

So I just got back from a 17-day stint in Morocco and Spain.

Words cannot describe how awesome it was. There were literally so many things that happened that it would be an exercise in futility to try and document them in a fashion that accurately conveys the sheer magnitude of the total adventure. So I won’t even try.

Great friends, great memories, great adventures.

So I just got a departmental award for Outstanding Performance in Physics Research. That’s 2 departmental awards to my credit now. If I can just get the Senior award next year, I’ll be set. I’m pretty sure nobody has ever done that since they started the awards but I’m gonna go for the three-peat. WIN ALL THE AWARDS!!

Official 2012 Longwood University Relay for Life Mz. Relay Champion!

Yeah that’s kind of lame to be excited about but I feel like if I’m going to sacrifice my dignity, I should at least have something to show for it besides remnants of eyeliner and electric purple nail polish.

1. You are a physics major. Could you please get your shit together and remember what the fundamental constants are? Seriously. You’re a fucking junior and can’t recognize the symbol for Permittivity of Free Space when it’s literally the only thing that symbol is used for…ever. Please pay attention so we don’t have to give you a constants review every fucking time a Greek letter pops up in a formula.
2. This is Quantum Mechanics. If you don’t understand how to take derivatives and substitute numbers into an equation, fucking leave and go change your major right now. There is no way you can actually be that stupid.
3. If your lecture notes are just gonna come right out of the book, why the fuck am I paying money for this class? Between the book and the Internet, I could teach myself all the shit you’re throwing up on the board. I would like to actually learn some Quantum Mechanics, not calculus and differential equations. I know that shit already. Stop coddling the stupid people and let’s actually learn some shit.

I really wish that people would get everything out in the open and have a bitch fest at each other. All of this fake-ass posturing is really irritating. You don’t like each other. Stop pretending like you do.

Furthermore, you really need to grow up and realize that people aren’t perfect. Just because they have no people skills doesn’t make them the Antichrist. Have you seen how you deal with people? That attitude you just complained about…you just had it. You’re doing the exact same shit you’re bitching about. I’ll be honest. There are people I’m friends with that have traits that irritate the piss out of me. But I’m an adult and realize that to completely condemn them and label them as a bad person because they do XYZ is retarded and childish. I know for a fact I do things that irritate the piss out of people but they’ve adapted and gotten over it. You should learn to do the same before you say something about somebody that’s gonna piss me off. You and I are pretty good friends but I’m also friends with other people. I protect my friends, even if it’s from my other friends.

If these childish-ass activities persist, I swear I gonna go Hulk on somebody and it’s not going to be a pretty argument. I promise.

Operation: Big Green Rage Machine is in effect

Great day, great girl, great news, great friends.

Great life :)

GET ON MY LEVEL!!!

Date night was a success. I feel like a Victory Screech is in order.

*VICTORY SCREECH!!*

I would really like everybody to not do that thing they do where they get super-excited because 2 people are gonna go on a date. It’s one date. I’m experimenting here, not setting things in stone. I don’t ever know if this will work. I hope it does but everybody setting stupidly high expectations for this date is not going to help. I can understand why some folks would see this as a big deal but they’re kinda blowing it out of proportion. I feel like this person already has some pretty high expectations of this date, I don’t need the rest of the Universe contributing. kthanksbye.

Mom: Did you ever have a thing for her?

Me: Yeah.

Mom: Well was it…

Me: We are not talking about this.

Mom: Well…

Me: NO. This is not a topic open for discussion.

Mom: Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that I picked up on that.

Me: Good night.

Congratu-fucking-lations, Mom. It has been 777 days since that dream blew up in my face and died but I’m glad you want to stop and point out that your spidey-senses were correct. It’s not like I care about her more than anything on the face of this planet or anything. You must be rocking some real keen senses there ma’am. In fact, you should probably be awarded a medal for your superior insight to that situation. It wasn’t like I was being obvious or anything.

If your senses were so damn keen, you would have known that is not something up for discussion…ever. Thanks for reminding me about that scar. It’s not like I’m reminded of it every time I see her or that one Def Leppard plays on my iPod. That’s exactly what I needed after a long day of scrubbing walls (which BTW were covered in some shit that must have been made from Space Shuttle heat tiles because it would not come of those fucking walls). Thanks Mom <3

1. Figured out how to play all of the Major scales on guitar. It’s basically just a pattern so I still need to remember where all the notes are but it’s coming along.
2. There isn’t anything I can’t do if I put my mind to it. If I “can’t” do it, clearly I just don’t really want to. I too often forget that one. Need to remember.

Playing around trying to familiarize myself with this guitar I promised myself I’d learn to play. Gonna learn my scales first before we do anything fancy.

So. Fucking. Hard.

It’s been a while so I’ll just summarize the past few weeks of life:

1. You’re in college, please act like it. Take some initiative and stop blaming other people for you’re inability to learn. It is entirely possible you’re just stupid.
2. The reason you’re doing better than I am in that class is because I’m helping you. Don’t flatter yourself and think you’re Lord of Physics. I can unmake you with my skills in physics. Don’t get cute.
3. I’m not always gonna be there to bail you out. Learn to bail yourselves out.
4. Know your place and do not overstep your bounds. You will get to wield my power, authority, and respect when have earned it. With great power comes great responsibility. You will not get the former until you demonstrate the latter.
5. My spidey-sense tells me you’ve got what it takes to get over the bar. The only question is if you’ll allow yourself to do it. That’s literally the only thing stopping me right now. All the other pieces are in place, it’s just gonna be up to you when I set things in motion.

It really sucks to have the bar set so high…

I just wish I had a time machine…

I hate snow so much. I mean yeah it looks pretty and all but it usually ends up causing problems at some point. For instance, I really need to go restock my food supplies. I was gonna do that today. While I could still easily drive to Walmart since the snow isn’t sticking, I know that people around here are super-crazy when it comes to snow so 1) it will be an absolute madhouse if I do go and 2) even if it isn’t crazy there will probably be a very limited stock. Plus everything is wet, it’ll probably freeze overnight, and the University will stupidly cancel class. Ugh.

I just kinda wish I was at home with the warm, cozy fire and a hot, home-cooked meal. Best way to spend a snow day, hands down.

I am so tired of dealing with these damn childish-ass gremlins that are under the impression that I actually like them. They think because they have seen me shed tears one time that we are all best friends and that they can get away with anything. This could not be more false. I tolerate most of them. There are a few that I genuinely like but for the most part they could all go jump off a cliff and it would have no bearing on my life…at all. Those older and wiser than them, the ones that know the true wrath of Blalock, had tried to educate them but to no avail. So clearly I’m going to have to step up my game and make them understand how truly hateful I can be so they might actually grasp the concept. I’ve tried very hard not to be incredi-mean to the freshies but their recent actions leave me no choice. If they want to play games, I shall play games. I’m not here to be your friend, stop pretending like it my job to be buddy-buddy with you. 

I love it when I’m just kind of zoning out and my brains just goes on autopilot. I totally just figured out how to fix my Tesla coil while I was basically 1/2 asleep. Why am I so fucking AWESOME?!

“They say only the bravest try where eagles and angels dare to fly”

Ok. First of all it really irritates me how the Campus Rec office always put together a team for every intramural sport. Yes, I know that’s kind of their thing and it looks silly if they don’t participate but they could at least cut the rest of us some slack. You people literally live in the gym and are mostly former high school athletes. Lots of talent to pull from. Compare this with the Honors College team (or really any of the other teams): basically nerds with a few athletes mixed in. Not a lot of talent there. Plus we really just want to have a good time. I would mind losing so much if I could at least play and have fun. When we literally get like 2 min of play time between 3 games of dodgeball, it’s not fun anymore. It’s just y’all being dicks (especially since 45 sec of that 2 min was after you’d already won the set and were just playing us for “fun”).

Secondly, can I just say I really like this girl I’m dating right now? She is just so much fun, kinda sarcastic (which I greatly appreciate), and adorably awkward (not creepy awkward but like a puppy awkward). Plus she is just so damn cute. It’s actually really hard to not be clingy and smother her. It’s her turn to pick the date this weekend so we’ll see how that goes and I reckon we’ll go from there. I feel like we need to give it a few more weeks before we move into official “relationship” territory but I feel like the general consensus around the building is that we’re “together” and I’m kinda ok with that right now :)

So tonight was the first time I’d been on an actual serious date since high school. Gonna be honest, I was expecting a complete disaster. This girl totally caught me off guard when she asked me earlier in the week. Totally did not see it coming. I knew like next to nothing about her and was in total panic mode about our date. But as it turns out it wasn’t that bad. I actually really enjoyed it. We had dinner at one of the local joints and had some really good discussion. Mostly about movies. We apparently both watch a shit ton of movies but watch totally different types. Dinner went so well that I was bold and invited her to my place to watch a movie. We ended up watching 2. It was so great. She’s actually a really nice girl and I like her so far. It’s only been one date so it’s hard to make an accurate assessment but I think I would like to continue seeing her (hence why we’ve planned for another date next weekend). She’s very chill and can actually carry and intelligent conversation, so she’s got a lot going for her so far. Just got to be careful not to screw it up during the week. Easier said than done.

As promised, here is more on my horribly crippling relationship complex.

Basically, I have this need to be the hero at all times. As much as I hate people, there are certain persons I care very much about. I want to make that clear. People, the general term, I hate. Person, the specific term, I like. I don’t like it when said persons are upset in any fashion and I feel like it’s my responsibility to fix the problem, even if it wasn’t my fault or I can’t actually fix it.

For example, I just recently found out one of my close friends has a major crush on me and has for several months. I cannot date her. However, I still can’t help but feel a little responsible every time she has a bad day. In her mind, I’m part of a solution to that bad day. But in reality I can never be the solution. Only another problem. Why do I still feel bad?! That’s clearly not my fault she’s crushing on me and I cannot date her but I still feel responsible. It’s that kind of situation that has been behind all of my unfortunate encounters with the ladies the past few years. I didn’t know that’s what the problem was so I couldn’t avoid the pitfall. They were looking to me to be a knight in shining armor and I felt obligated to oblige them somehow, usually resulting in some kind of awkward intimate encounter that really only made things worse. Luckily, we’ve now identified that pitfall I can more easily avoid it.

But onto more pressing issues. As if finding out one of your close friends is crushing on you, I’ve had a girl ask me to go on a date for this weekend. Considering I just figured out I’ve got this KISA complex, I was very hesitant to oblige. However, I was reminded by a good friend of the recent Iceman disaster. She wouldn’t even give me one date. None at all. Even just as an experiment. It hurt. And now here I am in Iceman’s shoes and somebody in mine. I decided I’m not gonna be an Iceman. I’ll at least give her a chance. I can’t bitch about Iceman not giving me a shot if I won’t give somebody else a shot at me.

Operation: Knight In Shining Armor is in effect

“Knight in shining armor” syndrome. We’ve decided that’s my problem. More on this later when I’m not up to my eyeballs in binary/hexadecimal numbers and logic gates.

This past week has been so emotionally draining I don’t even want to vent about it. Maybe tomorrow. But for right now I just want to go to sleep and not think about what a terrible friend/person I am.

A villain that fixes a problem he started is not a hero. He’s still a villain and is still responsible for his actions. Fixing things doesn’t get him off the hook.

2nd Law of Thermodynamics, thou art a heartless bitch. That is all.

I have to be the worst friend on the face of the planet right now. That was so wrong on so many levels and broke just about all of the rules. Completely unacceptable on my part. Right now I’m kind of wondering how many miles it would take to run myself to death because I might get really fucking close today.

The Saints couldn’t quite get it done against the 49ers but Tom Brady made it all better by hanging up 45 points against the Broncos. Gotta give it to the Pats defense. Definitely put Tebow in his place. Both were really good games (NO/SF was actually a good game with a lot of good plays; nice efforts all around, DEN/NE was just fun to watch because the Pats whooped the Broncos in a very embarrassing fashion; Tebow’s gonna need to put in some work if he wants to play with the big boys). The Sunday games will probably be disappointing after these two :/

Got my car’s suspension fixed today. It used to bottom out every time I hit a bump. Now it’s like riding on a motherfucking cloud. So awesome. Have to get it aligned tomorrow but that should be the last of it.

Also, you remember how I liked explaining things with Thermodynamics? Well basically everyone in that religious/philosophical discussion I’m participating in is hailing me as a philosophical wizard. They said it was so different from all of the classic arguments and they really liked how well thought out and scientific it was. It’s actually been very nice to have some civil debate and just share ideas and ask questions. Nobody’s pointing fingers and saying “You’re wrong!” just merely asking for clarifications and posing questions. Understanding. So. Awesome.

I really like to explain things in religious/philosophical debates in terms of Thermodynamics. It totally throws everybody off their game and they usually don’t have any kind of rebuttal. Evolution? Thermodynamics. Good and Evil? Thermodynamics. Politics? Thermodynamics. Economics? Thermodynamics. It works every time for just about every thing :)

Speaking of Thermodynamics, Van Halen is going on tour again this year. They are planning on making a stop in D.C. in March and I fully intend to skip class to go see them. I missed out in ‘09 and the Universe only knows when they’ll do it again. So I’m going to acquire another person (who will act as my co-pilot for this rock n’ roll odyssey) and we’ll go see Van Halen in all of their aged rock goodness. My 1st choice co-pilot (whom I went to see Motley Crue/Poison with) will probably be unable to attend due to classes so I’ll have to hunt somebody down to fill his place. Not an easy feat :(

This is one of those moments where I wish I had all of the tools I needed. And I don’t mean like real tools…I mean like intellectual tools. I’m working on my research and I need to know if the program I’m using can keep track of arc length swept out by an object in the program. I just don’t know how to talk to the program and get it to do what I need. I know of like 4 million ways to keep track of arc length from a mathematical standpoint and I have no idea how to tell the program to do any of them. Major road block and reason #147 why I need to be back at school. Ugh.

‘Grats on (barely) beating a crippled offense led by a crippled QB and a D-line that went from bad to worse over the course of the game. You got lucky Tebow. If Big Ben had been 100% he would have wiped the floor with you, regardless of how banged up the rest of the team was. Give him back all of his weapons and that #1 rated defense and you would have been up Shit Creek with no paddles real quick. But it’s cool. You gotta play and Tom Brady and the Pats next week and you know for sure they’ll be happy to kick your ass.

I really like calling people out when they say things that are completely outrageous and are clearly biased.

Sure, the Catholic Church didn’t single-handily develop the modern Scientific Method and them claiming that they did is pretty outrageous. I’ll give that to you. But they do deserve more credit than anybody of the atheistic variety will ever admit and my inner history nerd feels it necessary to point that out. Furthermore, their claim was embedding within a propaganda video. Let’s be real. Everything in propaganda is blown way out of proportion and this claim was no different. But for you to react as though their claim had no legitimate grounding whatsoever is equally ridiculous. It’s not like they claimed to have invented the internet or something like that. But really, regardless of how ridiculous any of the aforementioned claims are, I really just wanted to troll the shit out of you because you’re so unreasonably biased and yet like to pretend you’re super open-minded and tolerant. Being intolerant towards the intolerant doesn’t make you tolerant, it just makes you another intolerant asshole. If you have nothing nice to say, don’t say anything at all.