Random Rants XVIII: It's cold as hell!

[choxorn]

Well it shows how truly hard it is to rule well.

But some people don't even try.

 

[azzaman333]

If I keep taking holidays, I'm going to run out of money.

 

[Masada]

They were just placeholder examples of things, it wasn't supposed to be some sort of magic "are you as smart as Cheezy?" rubric.

Yes it was. Stop being so darn modest!

 

[Yared]

That article in aftonbladet was fun to read. Jimmie Åkesson is so damn stupid

Yeah. I just hope my brains won't be decorating the streets of Stockholm a la Lasermannen.

What he hell is wrong with our culture that people worship Miley Cyrus and the like and have no clue who the great scientific minds are? How many "average" people today know who Carl Sagan was, or Richard Feynman, or Niel DeGrasse Tyson? Who knows what our scientists are discovering today, even if it does make national headlines for a moment? How many people can talk for hours about the Steelers' defensive line, but don't understand how a simple prism works? Or can recite the lyrics of ever 50 Cent song but couldn't tell you the three laws of thermodynamics? And even among the "educated," how many know anything about epistemology?

Everyone has a place in society. These "'average' people" that you speak of probably have no use of this excess information. Why should they care about the conservation of energy?

I can understand epistemology (the usage of critical thinking is something I'd love to see more of) and I'd love for people to have a greater knowledge of politics and stuff that actually concern them but I see no reason to complain just because people don't worship Mr Sagan.

The rest of us will just have to stick to our science fiction.

RIP Sagan

You know, I didn't recognize Tyson's name as first but a quick search revealed that I've obviously heard of him - he's famous for efforts to "popularize science" though, not a bad guy at all, but it was kinda odd for you to mention him as a "great mind" and what that implies.

It takes a great mind to make science interesting and, in some ways, funny.

If I keep taking holidays, I'm going to run out of money.

Stop lurking on CFC.

 

[Gilder]

Yes, know it all 'friend', I've been totally mispronouncing my hometown's name for years. Obviously I haven't the slightest freakin' clue on how to pronounce it, but surely since you live in the same county but not in the town, you obviously have the right pronunciation. It's not like you haven't been there in years or anything, or talked to many people native to that town. But please, do go on in lecturing me on how I and everyone else in my hometown goes about mispronouncing its own name. Jesus. Freaking. Christ.

If this were the only time she'd been this irreparably thick, it wouldn't bother me nearly as much.

 

[Karalysia]

So I was in class not paying attention because early morning classes make me sleepy when suddenly everyone raises their hand and starts staring at me, at which point I realized the TA asked a question about whether we should tolerate some cultures which advocate the forcible suicide of women who get raped. And by that time it was too late to raise my hand so I just didn't bother. Everyone looked at me real weird and now they think I support it. He was even like "So I see the vast majority around 95% don't support that" It's a good thing I have a high tolerance for public embarrassment but its the first time I've ever wanted to sink into the floor. I bet they even think I'm a Republican.

 

[Shylock]

I have a paper due on Monday, Trig test on Tuesday
and a presentation next Friday

I GOTTA STEP UP MY GAME

 

[Earthling]

Except for epistemology, I'm still sketchy on that one, since its, you know, hard and stuff.

This reminds me of a certain other time around here. Anyway, pwnage:

"'I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something."

Recognize that....No cheating by googling or the like for you

 

[choxorn]

Why can't I ever stop procrastinating?

 

[Genocidicbunny]

"Ehh, Ill stop procrastinating later"

Its probably because you know you can get away with it.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

I'm not doing very well this semester. I got sick at the wrong time, and fell pretty far behind. I dropped the class I was doing worst in, but am not doing all that well in the others either. My Psych 1101 grade is probably fine (I got a 96 on the first test even though I was still sick, hadn't been to the class in about 2 weeks, and did not know about the test in order to study. When I did study for the second test I got a 91.), but I've thrown away about 6% (or maybe it was 8%, but 2% can be made up through an extra credit report or being a subject in a couple psych experiments) of the grade from being absent on days with in class assignments and forgetting to email him in advance. I haven't gotten a single Materials Lab report done in time (one of them I didn't get one at all) and that trend does not look like it is going to change this week. On Monday I pulled an all-nighter to try to finish the lab report since I thought it was due Tuesday (I missed the email extending the deadline to 5pm Friday), but did not get that much accomplished. It did mean that I ended up sleeping away most of Tuesday, and missing the review for Thursday's Environmental Engineering test and really throwing off my sleep schedule. I didn't get to study much, and am pretty sure I failed the test. That is after getting a D on the first test in that class, and the professor says almost never curves. I've also made very little progress on the lab report since then. This will probably be another all-nighter. There are so many outliers on my graphs I'm not sure what to omit. The website we were supposed to check for more info on the materials we tested does not seem useful at all, as the domain is up for sale and it only has a lot of useless links instead of real data.

I was planning to meet with my advisers tomorrow to discuss my schedule (since early registration for fall opens up Saturday for me) and when I'll end up graduating (as far as shear number of hours goes I could have graduated in the Spring, but I missed the deadline and am not sure when specific classes I might need are being offered), but I doubt I'll be able to as I need to focus on the report and then sleep.


My cousin is getting married on Halloween, but our part of the family was not invited. (I don't think it was actually anything against us in particular, as apparently only a handful of family members from our rather large family was invited. I guess they wanted a really small wedding at a certain place in Savannah that didn't have room for too many people.)

 

[azzaman333]

My leg feels like ow.

 

[choxorn]

Again, I rant that it's 2 AM and I'm still not finished with my homework. Almost, but not quite. Damn you, Chemistry.

 

[Yared]

My cousin is getting married on Halloween, but our part of the family was not invited.

That's cold.

 

[choxorn]

Well, I finished my homework finally. However, upon going to turnitin.com to turn it in, I discovered that what I just did is due next Wednesday, and something else, much shorter and less time-consuming, is due today at around 10 PM.

FML.

 

[Tee Kay]

I have a chemistry exam in two weeks. If the last one is anything to go by, the people who writes my chemistry exams are a cruel merciless bunch.

 

[azzaman333]

Chemistry will suck.

 

[Peck of Arabia]

Why do academic books have to have such short publishing runs, and thus be so expensive; my course tutors really recommend buying "Approaches to Social Enquiry: Advancing Knowledge" by Norman Blaikie (it's as exciting as it sounds) and I can only find it on play.com for £55

OK it's not much in the grand scheme of things, but for a student, and for a book that doesn't explain that much in the course (especially towards the end of the year) it does seem a bit much...

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

I am annoyed. I don't even know why.

 

[azzaman333]

Sorry Eran