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Sigh.
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May. 17th, 2008 @ 11:36 am
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Now that classes are over for the next few weeks (for those of us motivated enough to take classes in the summer :-P ) I really have no excuse whatsoever to put off cleaning my room. On the bright side, the greatest web comic in the history of the medium has returned! |
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Apalled and amused.
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May. 13th, 2008 @ 07:33 pm
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Violent Acres is an absolutely horrible human being. Which is why I'm linking to her, so you can all see how evil she is. That will show her... |
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"Let's face it, this is not the worst thing you've caught me doing."
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May. 13th, 2008 @ 11:23 am
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Iron Man, the movie, contains 100% of your recommended daily intake of PURE WIN!!! Stuff I found particularly cool: Pepper Potts not being a standard Hollywood Bimbo. Rhody not being the standard Hollywood Big Black Badass. The Swarthy Foreign Terrorists having some ethnic variety, i.e., not all being Swarthy. The Terrorist Spokesman speaking 'Arabiyya Fusha while addressing Stark formally, and using some degenerate Lahja when conversing with the other terrorists. The movie's generally accurate portrayal of military folks, which I will grudgingly concede, just this once, that Zoomies Airmen count as. The idiotic-yet-venerable "Iron Man is my body guard, no, really!" secret identity idea being treated with exactly the respect it deserved.
Stuff I didn't like: the gaping hole in Starks chest not inhibiting his daily activities. Yeah, the scene where his valued assistant rummages around in his innards was funny, but it broke my suspension of disbelief. The suit didn't of course, because it was made of PURE WIN. Not explaining how Stark can possibly survive the acceleration and various impacts he experienced without being pulped, or at least passing out when he routinely faced several Gs while effectively _standing_up_. Yeah, gravity/inertia manipulating "repulser" technology is the obvious answer, but it should have been mentioned, to let the nitpickers in the audience know that the scriptwriters were thinking ahead.
Stuff that was annoying, but perfectly in character: The newly "responsible" Stark taking his suit on a test flight above an inhabited area. Inventing an apparently clean power source that can fit in a pocket and outproduce several nuclear reactors, and not immediately marketing it and saving us all from global warming. Also not marketing the various technologies required for the armor to the cripples of the world. Yeah, these are perfectly in character, but I seriously hope one of the _other_ characters calls him out for them in the next movie. Which had better be just as awesome as this one... |
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Woe! Woe and calamity!
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May. 12th, 2008 @ 07:27 pm
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I _had_ a plan for passing today's math final: I was going to sacrifice a whole DOLLAR'S WORTH of pennies to the Black Hole God who lives in the coin funnel in the Physics Museum. Little did I know, that said museum was closed today. No sacrifice = terrible grade, I just know it. This is what I get for relying on faith instead of Reason... |
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Sigh.
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May. 11th, 2008 @ 10:28 am
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I was saving my Iron Man Virginity to share with Someone Special when she got back from visiting friends in another state. And what does she do? Goes and sees it _there_. This could be an Emo song... ;-)
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| » RAAAH! |
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May. 9th, 2008 @ 04:57 pm
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| » All decent Madisonians... |
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Should go see the Jonathan Coulton show tomorrow. And so should any Madisonians reading this...
May. 1st, 2008 @ 08:34 pm
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| » Blah. |
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Man, studying when you're drunk is _hard_.
Apr. 29th, 2008 @ 12:01 am
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| » Wait, is this the ascended Daniel, or the mere mortal? |
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Your results:
You are Daniel Jackson
| Daniel Jackson |
| 80% |
| Jack O'Neill |
| 59% |
| Samantha Carter |
| 55% |
| Thor |
| 55% |
| Dr. Frasier |
| 45% |
| A Goa'uld |
| 40% |
| General Hammond |
| 30% |
| Teal'c |
| 17% |
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You are sensitive to the needs of
others and are a good communicator.
You always stand up for the little guy.
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Click here to take the Stargate SG-1 Personality Quiz
Apr. 28th, 2008 @ 04:34 pm
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| » Advice for young geeks... |
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...On how to talk to girls. Of especial noteworthiness is the "Persistence = Obnoxious stalker-dom" bit, or as I would put it "Everything Hollywood 'Romantic comedies' ever taught you was WRONG!!!!"
I wonder if She Who Will Not Be Reasoned With makes an appearance, to point out how the poster is really an Evil Sexist Pig too? Not that I would point her at them, I'm not _that_ mean.
Apr. 27th, 2008 @ 12:33 pm
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| » YOU GOTTA BE ^&#%ING KIDDING ME. |
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Snow _again_? I don't care if it was only a "few flakes", enough is enough. I _was_ sympathetic, Mother Earth, but you just HAD to push it. I'm gonna go out and release a bunch of CO2 into the atmosphere RIGHT NOW. That'll show ya...
Apr. 26th, 2008 @ 08:45 am
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| » Another sign of old age. |
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Anyone else remember those idiotic wallet sized "backpacks" that were fashionable back in the mid 90s? I saw someone wearing one the other day. I bet they're "retro" now. Blech. :-P
Apr. 25th, 2008 @ 10:33 am
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| » This bodes ill. |
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Prior to every math class and/or test, I have a little ritual: I stop by the coin funnel in the Physics building and sacrifice pennies to the Black Hole God. From the pattern of the spirals, I have found I can divine the general short term future of my progress in the Arts Mathematical. Lots of collisions between pennies = good omen, lack thereof = bad. Today, I sacrificed 35 whole cents, and only got _2_ collisions, neither particularly impressive. The Black Hole God must be angry at me, and alas, I don't have time to sacrifice anything more powerful, like water baloons off the roof. I can only conclude that I will fail todays test. :-P
Update: Since the test is graded on a curve, as long as everyone else did _worse_, I should be just fine!
Apr. 22nd, 2008 @ 04:34 pm
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| » Someone should really... |
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... Do a "Ninjas of Penzance" parody. Specifically, someone less lazy than I.
Apr. 19th, 2008 @ 09:40 am
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| » Words to live by. |
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Your Slogan Should Be
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Have You Ever had a Bad Time in Chaotic-nipple?
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Apr. 18th, 2008 @ 11:59 pm
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| » Life imitates The Onion. |
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Courtesy of Warren Ellis:
For senior, abortion a medium for art, political discourse
Art major Aliza Shvarts ’08 wants to make a statement.
Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself "as often as possible" while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages. Her exhibition will feature video recordings of these forced miscarriages as well as preserved collections of the blood from the process.
Truly, we are living in strange days. Though it wouldn't surprise me at all if this was a hoax, even that would still be horrific yet hysterically absurd. Ultimately, though, It affects my opinion on abortion not at all. What is that opinion, you may ask? Why, my opinion is that, as a male, my opinion doesn't really count. Abortion is an issue that affects women much more than it does men, to the point that any opinion that a guy might have is pretty much irrelevant. If I _had_ an opinion, it would be that the issue should be decided by the votes of biological females, and biological females _only_. Ideally, it would be all those who are between puberty and menopause, and not otherwise of impaired fertility, i.e., having already been sterilized, because they're the only ones who would be immediately affected. But realistically, that would be way too difficult to enforce, not to mention intrusive, and the whole under-age voter thing would be a deal breaker. Still, that's a matter for other heads than mine to work out, since, as I've already mentioned, it's none of my business. And if you're not a biological female, it's none of yours either.
Edit: The more I think about this, the more certain I am it's a hoax. Barring a comprehensive doctor's exam and DNA testing of the "miscarriages", I'm going to assume that the artist in question has simply found a creative use for menstrual blood, and a credulous audience to outrage.
Further Edit: I was right. Still, kind of disappointing that they didn't stretch the joke out a bit longer, they could have gotten days of headline news coverage out of this, making the eventual punchline that much sweeter.
Apr. 17th, 2008 @ 03:55 pm
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| » Because the Dark Lord commands it... |
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Since PZ Myers orders it, I post a link the the Expelled Exposed website. Hail Darwin!
Apr. 15th, 2008 @ 08:42 am
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| » Blech. |
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First sunburn of the year, right on schedule. :-P
Apr. 14th, 2008 @ 05:54 pm
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