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https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/56125
Read over this bug report and see if you find it as amusing as numerous geeks have.
Category: Random Thoughts
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Rice Math
1 cup white rice + 1.5 cups water – 0.5 cup steam = 3 cups fluffy white rice
How does this work?
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Fun Dark Room Technique
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/grass-art/I found this article to be very amusing, somewhat interesting and a bit inspiring. I guess this proves that there are some things that you just can’t do with digital photography (although its easy enough to get slides made). This stuff seems about as useless as ice sculpture, but grass photography seems more interesting.
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Sad Realization
It is really sad when you figure out that all of your friends go to bed right after you do… kind of means you are at the top of the social pole I guess… Odd feeling, since usually I consider myself the lowest form of social contact.
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Who are you?
Do you know who you are? Are you the same person to everyone you meet? Are there parts of your life that you hide from others to make your life simpler? The art of interpersonal communication teaches us that we are someone different to everyone we meet, but how deep do these presenting faces need to go? At what point of fracturing do we no longer know ourselves?
Why do we create these barriers? Is there a need to lie to keep them in place? Why are we scared of everyone knowing the real us? Life is full of judgement, jealousy and guilt. These problems are only increased by denying our true selves.
Everyone deserves happiness, but not at the cost of the happiness of others.
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Naked Cowboy Sues
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/24/naked.cowboy/index.html
I don’t really like sharing news stories, because usually news sucks, but this is something I found funny, on varying levels. First, Mars should know better; Second, why would anyone dress like that in NYC?; Third, aren’t there laws for this type of thing?
On a different level, the costume sucks. The hat is ok, but the underwear is completely tacky, the guitar is ugly and the boots… well… thats a no-no, can’t have that, they clash with his skin. Naked cowboys are supposed to wear black boots, carry a black guitar and wear underwear that is more plain than that. Oh, and he really needs a haircut, long hair cowboys are so last decade. Take a closer look: http://dontdatethatdude.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/naked-cowboy2.jpg
Other than that, he has a nice body and being a complete public spectacle like that, with that level of vulnerability is kind of cool.
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First Reactions Quiz
I don’t usually do these types of things, but I’m bored and there’s nothing interesting to blog about.
Beer: dad
McDonalds: trash
Relationships: handcuffs
Purple: flower
Power Rangers: fetish
Cartoons: Saturday morning
Florida: orange
Reading: beach
Halloween: night
Alice: crazy bitch
MySpace: TO HELL WITH IT!
Feet: yum
Marriage: fags
Paris: fags
Pat: and Vanna
Redheads: Irish
Blondes: Aryans
One night stands: sad
Donald Trump: ugly
Neverland: its got testicles
Pixie: Scottie
Vanilla ice cream: bland
Hooters: too many tits
High school musical: Zach Efron
Pajamas: fuzzy
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Astronomy and my view of our Universe
Tonight while doing some astronomy homework I managed to get lost in the last 2 chapters of the textbook, “The Beginning and the End” as well as “Life on Other Planets”. I don’t know how I got lost in these chapters, but they are more philosophical than the rest of the textbook. Its is very interesting to read about the big bang on one page, detailing how the universe began, and then a few pages later reading the few possible ways it could end. The most spectacular of ends involves all of the matter in the universe recollapsing once the expansion of the universe is complete, and then the tightly packed matter beginning to have gravity again, as well as internal heating and the whole damned thing starting all over again in a seemingly endless pattern of recycling. The most bleek is that the universe never reverses and everything keeps going away from everything else until radioactive decay has its effect on all matter in the universe and all protons fall apart, effectively ending the universe once and forever. Between these two theories, I am most likely to believe the recollapsing universe theory, since it seems as though the universe is constantly recycling and gravity tends to bring everything back eventually. The process is very plausible, since it would allow everything to be heated back to its original temperature, effectively breaking everything back to single electron elements (hydrogen). Funny thing is, go to the string theory people, they will tell you that our universe is much like a lightbulb, there is more than one in the box and one burning out isn’t a big deal.
We are star stuff and we are the way that the universe knows itself. It is possible that we are the first sentient life to exist in the universe (at least in this iteration of the universe cycle), which means we are somewhat of an accomplishment. We can’t know for sure if we are alone, but even if we aren’t, we can’t be sure that other civilizations would be as curious as us and want to explore space, or if they would be as persistent. -
A Little Irony
Earlier I posted a blog entry about having difficulty conceiving a gaudy poem… well… I thought for a few more minutes (10 minutes max) and then decided to turn to my favorite research assistant for help…. Google. I went to the search box in my browser and typed “gaudy poem” (without quotes) and guess what the first hit returned was? MY BLOG POST. It would appear that since I have been abnormally chatty as blogs go recently, the GoogleBot has placed my IP address on speed-dial and my entries appear in the Google index almost immediately. Its a bit cool, but also a bit scary at the same time.
A person should never see themselves as the first hit on any random search on Google… it just isn’t right. -
First Impressions
“first impressions are the most important” is something I have heard all of my life. It is what many people hold to be a strong truth, but in placing so much in them, are we depriving ourselves of a greater understanding of the world? Every person is different and with a more loose social movement occurring it may be harder to understand much about a person when you first meet them. The more I age the more I find that I am usually wrong in my first impressions. It is very easy for a person to give me reason to not like them when I first meet them, but in general I like everybody, once I know a little about them.
