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Slightly longer dumping
Mar. 22nd, 2006 12:57 amWell, there was at least some homework that got done - no paper progress because the homework took up so much time, but tomorrow can be devoted to the task of applying beatings to the papers in question. If I can thrash out some more words and pages, things will do better. I think part of the reason I want it all done is that I can then coast a bit and concentrate on the exams rather than the papers - although I can't really do that because both the papers have presentations attached to them, one, and two, that means I have to actually prepare for both of them - sounding professional is a major component of them. So getting the paper done first means I can start constructing the presentations, I suppose. Anyway, yeah, so I'm moving ever slowly into panic mode.
This interesting science bit crosses my desk. It may be that the problem of black holes, dark energy, and mark matter are all related. The paper suggests that black holes are really stars that have engaged in a "quantum critical phase transition. So far, so good, according to the hypothesis. Soon enough, the measurable data will arrive and we'll know whether we've unlocked another mystery of the universe.
It may not be wise to make jokes about old men with shotguns telling kids to "git off mah lawn" for a bit, as someone shot a boy who was walking on his lawn. Yeah, that's just sad.
What's worse, though, is that the President has implied that there are no plans to do anything regarding a withdrawal from Iraq during the rest of his tenure as president. I just wish that wisdom had prevailed in the first place so that either a reasonable, provable justification had been shown that the country could back, or at least grudgingly admit was good, or that the troops had not been sent until such a thing could be found. Now I realize it's bad to withdraw the troops, but it's bad to have them keep dying under what were arguably false pretenses.
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bradhicks provides a pretty good interpretation of V's character in V for Vendetta, painting him as a villain who produces virtuous results and showing off why anyone in power in governmental systems that are too close to that portrayed in the movie are nervous about its implications.
Bleargh. I've been turning things over in my head recently, which usually happens on the occasion of new data rushing into our existence. Much of this looks like it will only play out through experience. There's a certain implied vulnerability in that department - if we don't know what we want going in, there's always the chance we'll end up in the wrong place. Which, by itself, shouldn't be an impediment. Finding out that something's wrong is just as valuable as finding out something right. Is it... impatience? Have we finally graduated beyond anxiety to the point that we want to go out and experience and do things and that we find ourselves unable to immediately experience? It's certainly not senioritis about one's studies, but perhaps a feeling of lacking from other areas of life. A bit too focused, we suppose, again, on our studies.
It's not the Hitomi feeling. We're not feeling useless or NPC. (If anything, I'm a mid-boss, dammit.) Maybe recrimination - realizing the volume of potential opportunities that were squandered just by not paying attention to them, or realizing they were there. Although that seems silly - sure if I knew then what I know now, I might think about doing things differently, were the options there. Of course, some mirror-self of mine could be writing the same thing, so that's not really as much a help as we think.
We've been thinking about some of our other attitudes, and we've got some positions, but we're second-guessing ourselves. And we're doing it because we're not sure that's what we think, despite the fact that we clearly act in accordance with those principles. So, unless it's a long-standing fluke, then we could really do well forgetting about it. And if it's that long-standing a fluke, it's probably not a fluke, either. It just may indicate that patience will be the virtue of choice for a long time coming.
We know things have been bad when we start considering Dream Theater lyrics for their application to our life as it stands. That generally means either significant things or problems. Although we're not sure under which part "tear down these walls for me" falls. Anyway, we've likely bored you or made you get out the planks to beat me with by now. So, rather than make an impressive Tenny impression by chasing our tail and spinning about in circles, we'll go to bed.
This interesting science bit crosses my desk. It may be that the problem of black holes, dark energy, and mark matter are all related. The paper suggests that black holes are really stars that have engaged in a "quantum critical phase transition. So far, so good, according to the hypothesis. Soon enough, the measurable data will arrive and we'll know whether we've unlocked another mystery of the universe.
It may not be wise to make jokes about old men with shotguns telling kids to "git off mah lawn" for a bit, as someone shot a boy who was walking on his lawn. Yeah, that's just sad.
What's worse, though, is that the President has implied that there are no plans to do anything regarding a withdrawal from Iraq during the rest of his tenure as president. I just wish that wisdom had prevailed in the first place so that either a reasonable, provable justification had been shown that the country could back, or at least grudgingly admit was good, or that the troops had not been sent until such a thing could be found. Now I realize it's bad to withdraw the troops, but it's bad to have them keep dying under what were arguably false pretenses.
bradhicks provides a pretty good interpretation of V's character in V for Vendetta, painting him as a villain who produces virtuous results and showing off why anyone in power in governmental systems that are too close to that portrayed in the movie are nervous about its implications. Bleargh. I've been turning things over in my head recently, which usually happens on the occasion of new data rushing into our existence. Much of this looks like it will only play out through experience. There's a certain implied vulnerability in that department - if we don't know what we want going in, there's always the chance we'll end up in the wrong place. Which, by itself, shouldn't be an impediment. Finding out that something's wrong is just as valuable as finding out something right. Is it... impatience? Have we finally graduated beyond anxiety to the point that we want to go out and experience and do things and that we find ourselves unable to immediately experience? It's certainly not senioritis about one's studies, but perhaps a feeling of lacking from other areas of life. A bit too focused, we suppose, again, on our studies.
It's not the Hitomi feeling. We're not feeling useless or NPC. (If anything, I'm a mid-boss, dammit.) Maybe recrimination - realizing the volume of potential opportunities that were squandered just by not paying attention to them, or realizing they were there. Although that seems silly - sure if I knew then what I know now, I might think about doing things differently, were the options there. Of course, some mirror-self of mine could be writing the same thing, so that's not really as much a help as we think.
We've been thinking about some of our other attitudes, and we've got some positions, but we're second-guessing ourselves. And we're doing it because we're not sure that's what we think, despite the fact that we clearly act in accordance with those principles. So, unless it's a long-standing fluke, then we could really do well forgetting about it. And if it's that long-standing a fluke, it's probably not a fluke, either. It just may indicate that patience will be the virtue of choice for a long time coming.
We know things have been bad when we start considering Dream Theater lyrics for their application to our life as it stands. That generally means either significant things or problems. Although we're not sure under which part "tear down these walls for me" falls. Anyway, we've likely bored you or made you get out the planks to beat me with by now. So, rather than make an impressive Tenny impression by chasing our tail and spinning about in circles, we'll go to bed.
