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silveradept) wrote2006-02-22 01:03 am
silveradept) wrote2006-02-22 01:03 am
Another one down.
Just keep plugging away at the days, and they keep going away. Eventually, there will be none left between me and my goal. Whether I've actually achieved the goal is something else, but the time will come.
An interesting co-theory of how information may pass from organism to organism - not through nucleic acids, but through folded proteins. They might be responsible for some diseases like CJD and mad cow - what's interesting is that the proteins, if malformed, might be able to transmit their own construction ideas onto other proteins, making them malformed, too. It's a replicating process that has nothing to really stop it or recall it, and so it propagates itself. Very interesting.
If people are getting tired of the Simpsons, here might be a reason why: the jokes are all the same. Or at least, all the same type. Although to build such a hypothesis as the page-maker has, he'll need someone with a complete collection and the time to watch some things. Or several someones. Either way, could turn out that the Simpsons has indeed become the Worst. Show. Ever. at some point.
A really cool idea - a sledgehammer-operated keyboard. For when you really need to get the stress of your day out by beating on some keys. Which is about what I want to do after reading this article about how some kids aren't particularly bright - they're putting very full profiles on things like MySpace, and naturally, when some of them end up being courted by predators and abused or killed, at least some of the blame falls on the service for letting this thing happen. Well, the kids may be being a bit too truthful, and the predators are most probably lying about at least one thing - what they plan on doing with the kids. It looks legit, which is why it's so hard to notice. Gragh.
Anyway, I've been turning another of those odd questions about in my head, and this one seems to be one that I really could use help and explanations on. I've been in college for a while now, and college, like high school, is supposed to help prepare you for the big place known as the Real World. When I arrived here, I was determined to make good use of having gotten out of the provincial area and make or remake myself into a more world-wise, smarter and savvier person. (In terms of increasing my common sense, I may have failed miserably. But that's a different worry, and one I think I've gone over before.) The curiosity, or problem, if it is one, is that when confronted with snippets of the Real World in the interactions of the people around me and the conversations and like, my most common reaction to it is curiosity. I want to know what the life of someone with a different lifestyle is (I could certainly rattle a list of names and the associated curiosities, but I could easily invite wrath by doing so. To err is human, to forgive, divine, but only in goddess do we trust: all others must pay cash.) I don't understand some of the workings of the world (outside of politics, which is a clusterfuck that I probably won't ever be able to understand well), but I'd like to learn. I just wonder, that if I really was supposed to be prepared and know much more about the real world, shouldn't I be able to form decisions and opinions about things, rather than still crave more data on the matter? It's not that I want to start pontificating, but that at some point, I should feel like I know much or most of the thing that I'm encountering. I'm a little worried that my preparations for the real world are inadequate, because I keep looking for more information. (I'm a little worried about the real world in general, but college costs will do that to anybody.)
I'm not really sure whether to classify this as a character flaw or a character strength. Is my reasoning bent and twisted? Am I really still a sheltered provincial, who went from a small province to a slightly larger one? Have I learned about the world out there at all? I'm not sure, really.
That's what's in my brain, and now it's on the electronic medium. Enjoy.
An interesting co-theory of how information may pass from organism to organism - not through nucleic acids, but through folded proteins. They might be responsible for some diseases like CJD and mad cow - what's interesting is that the proteins, if malformed, might be able to transmit their own construction ideas onto other proteins, making them malformed, too. It's a replicating process that has nothing to really stop it or recall it, and so it propagates itself. Very interesting.
If people are getting tired of the Simpsons, here might be a reason why: the jokes are all the same. Or at least, all the same type. Although to build such a hypothesis as the page-maker has, he'll need someone with a complete collection and the time to watch some things. Or several someones. Either way, could turn out that the Simpsons has indeed become the Worst. Show. Ever. at some point.
A really cool idea - a sledgehammer-operated keyboard. For when you really need to get the stress of your day out by beating on some keys. Which is about what I want to do after reading this article about how some kids aren't particularly bright - they're putting very full profiles on things like MySpace, and naturally, when some of them end up being courted by predators and abused or killed, at least some of the blame falls on the service for letting this thing happen. Well, the kids may be being a bit too truthful, and the predators are most probably lying about at least one thing - what they plan on doing with the kids. It looks legit, which is why it's so hard to notice. Gragh.
Anyway, I've been turning another of those odd questions about in my head, and this one seems to be one that I really could use help and explanations on. I've been in college for a while now, and college, like high school, is supposed to help prepare you for the big place known as the Real World. When I arrived here, I was determined to make good use of having gotten out of the provincial area and make or remake myself into a more world-wise, smarter and savvier person. (In terms of increasing my common sense, I may have failed miserably. But that's a different worry, and one I think I've gone over before.) The curiosity, or problem, if it is one, is that when confronted with snippets of the Real World in the interactions of the people around me and the conversations and like, my most common reaction to it is curiosity. I want to know what the life of someone with a different lifestyle is (I could certainly rattle a list of names and the associated curiosities, but I could easily invite wrath by doing so. To err is human, to forgive, divine, but only in goddess do we trust: all others must pay cash.) I don't understand some of the workings of the world (outside of politics, which is a clusterfuck that I probably won't ever be able to understand well), but I'd like to learn. I just wonder, that if I really was supposed to be prepared and know much more about the real world, shouldn't I be able to form decisions and opinions about things, rather than still crave more data on the matter? It's not that I want to start pontificating, but that at some point, I should feel like I know much or most of the thing that I'm encountering. I'm a little worried that my preparations for the real world are inadequate, because I keep looking for more information. (I'm a little worried about the real world in general, but college costs will do that to anybody.)
I'm not really sure whether to classify this as a character flaw or a character strength. Is my reasoning bent and twisted? Am I really still a sheltered provincial, who went from a small province to a slightly larger one? Have I learned about the world out there at all? I'm not sure, really.
That's what's in my brain, and now it's on the electronic medium. Enjoy.
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I mean they do say that the first step to wisdom is knowing how much you don't know.
But in any case, I don't think that it's desirable, or even possible, to know all about the "real world" before going out in it. For one thing, many of the things that help you deal with it can't be learned from the outside, they are learned once you being to experience.
Also, cities and big places are /exactly like small places/ except larger. Really. *grins* (Not helpful, I know.)
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Big places are like the small places, just bigger. Yeah, that makes sense, although I think I would say "big places just have more small places in them" to get the same point across.
I'm going to keep this short and sweet as best I can.
Besides...you'll have enough time to bitch about the Real World after you dive fully into it. Don't start too early or you'll not have anything to look forward to.
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I think you're making things more complicated than they need to be really, your over analizing just a bit. Besides, the real world is just a myth. There is no real world, just a series of fantasies we all wrap ourselves up in. If you want to know about lifestyles you can ask, I've lived most of them. Being a hermit sucks but being the CEO Of a mega-billion dollar corporation sucks more. And while I'm on the subject, 5 people living in a loft in New York while MTV pays the rent and cameras are on you all day? How real is that?
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I had a long discussion about them typing up but then I decided that not everyone is a structure biologist or even really cares.
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2) Everyone is curious about the experience of everyone else. And if it's an experience that they themselves could have chosen, all the more so. You're hardly sheltered, merely interested.
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